The Brutal Truth About Work...

[@TomScryleus]

*I refuse to die a wage slave! Who is with me?* 🔥My top 3 videos of 2024 (in no particular order)🔥 1. The Harsh Reality of work - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHzLhpiLacp2b8Usi=WZL84xFdJnMeq1NI 2. You Are Not Your Job! - kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3W0c5V-ntJ6gNksi=-7x8zrMt9HH1pHog 3. The 7 Lies of Work - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWOTeWB_Z6mMotUsi=ffv3mLc-jTg52lR5

[@Iwishtheirwasnopain]

im a bus driver too, maybe your bus driver? who knows, who works 8 hours? my nightmare is 13 hour long shifts, i feel like a soulless zombie..its 4 days a week but doing 50 hours in 4 days is still a nightmare

[@PhewboyLive]

"Life Is Too Short To Not Take Huge Risk, But If You're Going To, You Have To Know That People Will Not Understand You Untill They See The Results 🔥"

[@edlepkowicz4478]

Me!!!

[@johniliakopoulos5404]

👍

[@Trahzy]

@@TomScryleus Can your parents give me some money?

[@mkeyx82]

40 hour work week is not about productivity, but about getting us on a schedule, running in circles till the day we perish.

[@keviinschannel]

very true. well said.

[@althunder4269]

It's about control too. The company wants total control over the employees so they can use the workers up, maximum productivity.

[@mkeyx82]

@@althunder4269 I have mixed experience with company top brass actively resisting obvious efficiency improvements (requiring short term investments) that would benefit both the company and the employees. It's like these people are getting high on their own supply (of bullshit). They get invested into something and then just keep flooring it.

[@Anonymous-md2qp]

One of the worse things you can do is have kids and keep the schedule running.

[@mkeyx82]

@@Anonymous-md2qp the only way out is by having properly reared children. We need a whole generation of people who's worldviews are not completely poisoned.

[@clifforddowler5765]

My old gramps always said if work was any good the rich wouldn't let us have any of it.

[@SubtoShanna-ThisIsTheWay]

Boom!

[@Jesus_Saves_Believers]

Classic. Love it

[@ЯрославКривич-ч4э]

Your old man was a wise man, dude.

[@TrueMiThompson]

🎯🎯

[@imp4act]

damn this shit hit hard man. rest in peace dear gramps

[@MrSoap75]

I quit my job back in April, I’m 49. I’m the poorest I’ve been since my early 20’s but so much happier. I have space to breathe and enjoy the simple and cheaper pleasures in life. I will need a job at some point but it won’t be any more than 20 hours a week. Time is worth so much more than money and money isn’t worth as much we’re led to believe. I’ve seen some of my closest family members die with thousands of unspent money in their banks, what was it worth to them in the end? We just need to stop buying shit we don’t need. Stop feeding the beast. It’s designed to keep you on the hamster wheel.

[@PonderedThoughts]

Document your journey. There are people your age that need to see that’s it’s possible! And how it can be done!

[@sandraalegria3439]

@MrSoap75 I feel you, I wasted my time . I have not worked in 8 years ,I tremble during interviews. I will enjoy every minute of life. I worked so hard in the medical field. I see the lies it hurts that I believed I was doing the right thing. It almost killed me. I was always sick.

[@MrSoap75]

@@sandraalegria3439 - I wish you good luck! Life is precious and short. I spent 11 years in management, doing a job I hated just to provide for my kids and burnt out. Genuinely forgot who I was. Now they’ve grown up I can focus on what I want. I love the simple things in life. Walking. Nature. Peace. None of which cost much money so I can ease off and rediscover who I am. A journey I’m really enjoying. I hope you manage to find your path and it is a fulfilling one :)

[@MrSoap75]

@@PonderedThoughts - I have been doing this. A mixture of videos and journals my friend. It may not even work out but I’ve never been scared of failure. Failure means you’re at least trying.

[@MrSoap75]

⁠@@sandraalegria3439 - I understand. Life is so precious and brief. We waste so much of it doing things that are of no benefit to ourselves. Often thats work in a field that we either have no interest in or is so stressful it’s unhealthy. I was a manager for 11 years, I forgot who I was and totally burnt out. I reached a stage where I began to worry for my health and sanity so decided to walk on a new and more peaceful path and rediscover who I am. The things I enjoy, walking, nature, peace and quiet and reading don’t cost a lot of money so why should I kill myself earning lots of money? So far it’s an interesting journey of self discovery :) I hope you enjoy the same!

[@peterwhitaker71]

I was laid off earlier this year at 53. Now I get to pursue my passion. My passion is not working.

[@Frodo1000000]

If you can, you're priveleged.

[@peterwhitaker71]

I'm lucky and privileged. I do appreciate that.

[@nackjicholson1940]

​@@peterwhitaker71 And what about everyone who isn't? Most people cannot survive without working. Unless they want to rough it out and beg for money on the streets.

[@peterwhitaker71]

@@nackjicholson1940 They’re basically screwed. Working until they can’t work any longer or can afford to quit.

[@petegriffiths8239]

😅

[@pordonjeterson]

Entire system is fucked. Humans were never made to live this way.

[@Ajax-t1q]

Yes agree, it was so much better 200 hundred years ago.

[@AbcDef-s7r]

​@@Ajax-t1qif i look at the way the cities looked like compared to now, yep, it was a million times better beautiful buildings, clean streets, high trust society, no biologically underdeveloped people that everybody has to cater to and tip toe around

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

@@AbcDef-s7r lol…you have not looked into the past at all. Smoking was allowed everywhere. Cocaine was prescribed for weight loss and was the main ingredient in Coke. We treated homosexuality with electro shock and imprisoned them.

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

@@pordonjeterson how were we meant to live? Killing each other to take what’s theirs? If you can’t deal with a 40 hour work week you wouldn’t make it far out of society

[@Hillbillysundays]

Fr let me be a farmer or some shit

[@thomaslamb8635]

I just turned 40. I’ve never gotten to go on vacation all the years I’ve worked. I’ve watched my brother, sister and friends work their behinds off for years, with little to show for it. Other people raising their kids. Divorces. Separations. Constantly moving. Late nights. A few years back I quit a decent job for supposedly a better paying one. It ended with collapsed disks in my lower back and chronic never ending pain. Oh, and they let me go on top of everything else. I work just enough to keep the bills paid. The wife and I own our home. We’ve never had a new car. We own our cars outright. I’m home a lot more. My relationship with my wife and kids is a lot better. I still feel there is more to life than this. I haven’t gotten a decent night sleep in over six years now. There are times that I feel as though I have utterly failed and feel completely exhausted. But I continue forward, because it’s not just about me. It’s about my wife and three kids. I often wonder, looking back in time a few hundred years, if our ancestors felt that same way. Trudging on day after day, in the heat and cold. It just seems, no matter how far back you look, or how far in the future we get, there will always be those at the top getting everything, and those at the bottom fighting over scraps.

[@RawPower-69]

If you have a job you are supposed to get a foreign holiday per year, a house, a car, a dishwasher, and a picket fence.

[@timmorten7000]

vacations are days off work

[@BrizzNewton]

Never take to heart what HR has to say. Human Resources is not there for the employees. They’re there to protect the company from the employees.

[@gregorywalls6155]

Exactly!

[@CeePeeGee]

🎯

[@VikingMale]

No they are there to promote marxism.

[@ЯрославКривич-ч4э]

HR means hell riders

[@redrider8036]

Powerful insight!

[@NZTiberius2023]

Even my school reports used to say that I have a problem with authority. At 47 that has not changed. I really struggle with being an employee and having a boss control so much of my life, pay me peanuts, and disrespect me. I hate it. I really really hate it.

[@catdelicacy]

feel you 100 %

[@markharrison7302]

💯

[@David-n2k8h]

👏👏

[@danielbezjak1479]

I'm the same way which is why I can't have a corporate job. Just yesterday a friend's wife was complaining to me about how her boss was giving her a hard time about missing her yearly projections. She was literally off by 0.0015%. Yes you read that right she was 99.9985% percent accurate on her yearly projection and he brought it up as a negative on her performance review. She had to sit there and agree to do better next year. I am not wired that way. There is no way in hell I could sit there and not at the very least come back with some incredibly sarcastic comment or just outright tell the guy to go f himself

[@lucianboar3489]

I'm glad I have a boss that understands I'm at my best when left to work at what is really important, the core of what I do in my position and not be bothered with secondary tasks and part of other reports, filler stuff for him or others. Or admin bs. I've come to have zero tolerance for doing things I don't see as important (or better said, since those are needed too and important in other ways, while having to also do the important stuff no one else would easily do- that mix drives me crazy)

[@dragonwarrior4589]

The system wants you to "own nothing and be happy. " never forget that.

[@allenkeller6075]

I met a man at the hospital recently. He was about 60 and had some sort of medical apparatus strapped on his back that resembled some sort of futuristic back pack. I asked him about it and he explained to me that it was doing most of the work for his heart because his heart was so weak and unhealthy that it could no longer keep up with the demands od survival. He could barely shuffle along at an extremely slow pace. I asked him if it was perhaps a condition that he was born with? Or a disease that had affected his heart and gave him this condition? He paused, straightened himself slightly, and proudly proclaimed that his Cardiologist had informed him that he had simply WORKED his heart to death. He proudly told me about how he had worked 100 hours per week at multiple jobs for most of his life. The Social Programming was complete... I saw my own future. I thanked him whole heartedly and changed my own life...

[@mikepackham5260]

You are not the only one my friend, adulthood is a trap, Modern day Slavery no more no less.

[@agnosticevolutionist3567]

Ditto brother of the universe realise you are the god you have all the numbers inside you

[@pdpc1013]

Living habits also play a huge role in this. Perhaps this man didn't pay much attention to vices, quality sleep, hydration, diet issues and basic excersising in a daily basis. For example, daily 20 minutes of working out, 7 hours of daily sleep, regular hydration and avoiding alcohol and tobacco, could probably have improved his health overall. Still, 14 hours of work is surely more than anyone should work daily.

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

@@mikepackham5260 really? Slaves were paid? Have healthcare? Were allowed to quit?

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

@@allenkeller6075 this is a total lie

[@Steve-Cap]

“If you don’t build your own dreams, someone will hire you to build theirs”… 🤯

[@TomScryleus]

scary how true that is.. isn't it?

[@MikeRenouf]

Pretty sure this phrase is something Dan Koe said months ago. Not sure if it's his original quote, but there it is.

[@furiousdestroyah9999]

It's unfortunate that not everybody can be born into immense wealth in order to be able to build their dreams 😂

[@lawrup]

​@@TomScryleusisint it the Government who is building there dreams Where do you think our money comes from

[@FactsCountdown]

​@@furiousdestroyah9999 that's why poor class and middle class must stop having kids.

[@bryantpettey5462]

Love it! As a child, I thought this world was strange and the idea of working your life for someone else seemed horrible to me even as a child. And I never heard anyone really speak on this until recently. People are waking up to the system that we are all in that uses us for fuel to create massive wealth for a few.

[@criztu]

Karl Marx explained it in 1850. Work is your effort(labour) taken away by others. It's called alienation. This is illustrated in the movie Alien - corporation Weyland Yutani engineers humans into xenomorphs - "unclouded by consciousness, remorse or delusions of morality". Workers are dehumanized, turned into robots - from Slavic work 'robu, robota' - slave, work.

[@Jupiterxice]

Never stay loyal to these jobs

[@TomScryleus]

truer words have never been spoken.

[@thirsty3333]

That’s why they want us back in office lol 😂 they want us to have an emotional attachment to ppl that work there

[@themsmloveswar3985]

Never comply with the assholes running the system, when undermining him is an option..

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

@@TomScryleus yes there have.

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

@@Jupiterxice that’s why these jobs don’t stay loyal to you. You expect other to live up to rules that you don’t live up to.

[@DaisyPalai]

People are willing to be slave wage in exchange for a steady income. For 27 years I was a wage slave but as soon as i knew I saved enough I quit the grind. I left my job this September and my anxiety attacks have lessened. I feel blessed.

[@Rexhunterj]

The anxiety never gets to me when I'm gardening for myself. But when I work for someone else, even doing gardening I get that anxiety. I'm fairly sure it's not a mental disorder now but a survival tactic. Get anxious when enriching others, but not yourself.

[@ingenuity1394]

You have just posted non sense. You worked 27 years saved enough and take retirement good for you. But beginners 20-28 years old dont have money we are slaves till we work 27 years just like you. so congratulations you have no escaptled nothing you are just delusional. Nobody tell solution of wage slavery just rants. What we do we do not have captial to start business not enough skils to sell service so yes we are free to starve.

[@vijayaragavan440891]

I am happy for you, but I feel we will not have that money to buy things we want. Any advise?

[@Actias1974]

@@vijayaragavan440891want less.

[@aussiegruber86]

I have had 2 anxiety attacks due to work……edit: 2 Panic Attacks

[@samflower31]

Tom,so glad I came across this today. My husband and I just had a conversation about how we are so done with the soul crushing, mind numbing, 9 to 5 existence. Our idea is just starting to formulate and I too have that little voice that tells “me this is a dumb idea” so it was growing stagnant, but today I have been re inspired. We are not meant to live as wage slaves. Most people do not realize that prior to the last 50 years people had so much more autonomy and freedom over their lives. The corporatization of our world has robbed us all. Time to break free from wage slavery! 💜

[@MatthewSmith-kd3mu]

“I want a nation of workers not thinkers. “ - John D Rockefeller (founder of the General Educational Board 1902)

[@connorg712sanderson]

This quote swirls through my mind every now and again...

[@MatthewSmith-kd3mu]

@@connorg712sanderson Nothing wrong with that. It should stay in the forefront of everyone’s mind. It’s ignorance accompanied by or followed with stupidity that keeps us enslaved.

[@MatthewSmith-kd3mu]

⁠@@connorg712sanderson I wrote a response but it apparently wasn’t liked by our overlords.

[@MattyDR]

Wish more people understood this truth and how our modern society was manufactured and fabricated to keep us where we are at and docile!

[@ЯрославКривич-ч4э]

"I want a government of noble and caring not fuckers." - Me (noname from the internet 2024)

[@joeblack3878]

I’m coming up on 30 years of working. I started at a fast food joint, moved into military service, and then ultimately to corporate America on the higher side of management. In my journey from blue to white collar work I’ve realised that there are only two classes - 1.) The capitalist, and 2.) The proletarian. I’ve also realised that every thing out there is for the capitalists to control the proletarians. Whether it be entertainment, technology, sports, alcohol, religion, political affiliation, sexual “identity,” race “identity,” education , judicial system, and lastly - slave labour. We’re kept distracted and we’re pitted against each other so that we don’t realise that the 1%… Are just fu cki ng us at every step. We’re all full of hate, isolated, and “kept busy.” It’s wild actually.

[@yonitznkc]

The way is within you (us). Yoga and meditation, stilling the mind, saves my sanity daily. See: Eckhart Tolle. 👍🏼

[@Jesus_Saves_Believers]

Great comment and very thought-provoking!

[@kbonfogg]

Can you please send that message to every American citizen before Tuesday. Thank you!

[@MegaUlysses1234]

Thanks Marx.

[@ManuelMongeFidalgo]

Wow ex-military US citizen is a Marxist, please go for president.

[@TrueMiThompson]

When I’m at work I’m drained and mentally exhausted. When I call off work I wake up early and so productive with my organization and planning. It’s the freedom I’m working towards. Freedom is within reach 🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@innertuition7363]

its crazy , ive been to a few funerals as ive reached age 51.. i am amazed how a lot of speeches at funerals always say he/she was a good hard working man/woman... its like being proud to have been an economic debt slave.. glad i played the system most my life..

[@EMan-cu5zo]

My friend just passed a week ago and he just turned 44 a month ago. Way to young but at least he hardly worked that much. To be honest he probably would still be around if he worked more because he just drank himself to death. Sad and I miss him.

[@bradelford363]

I call it the "busy bee badge of honor". One I can do without. Notice how when you see someone after a long time it's a contest to see who has been busier? I stay busy in a sense but it's not bus-ness busy it's just living...

[@innertuition7363]

@@EMan-cu5zo sorry to hear bout ya friend..

[@innertuition7363]

@@bradelford363 ye its mainly true about meeting back up with someone after a while... am not gonna lie its good to keep moving for ya health, and i do know a lot of people would lose their minds if they did nothing all day..

[@ScoreGuru123]

Does that mean you're a dole dosser?

[@FiStrategy]

I think what kills me the most is unexpressed, self expression. The 9-5 steals your joy, energy and time. At the end of the day, there’s nothing left to give. As you said “a salary is the drug they give you to forget your dreams.” We must begin to develop alternative solutions to the 9-5 slave system.

[@draganbuhanovich6411]

4 hours work day 4 days week ,

[@Jesus_Saves_Believers]

I am rooting for Gen Z

[@Jesus_Saves_Believers]

​@draganbuhanovich6411That's excellent and UI by 45.

[@ЯрославКривич-ч4э]

@@Jesus_Saves_Believers Do you really think they can change something? You are quIte naive person.

[@ЯрославКривич-ч4э]

@@draganbuhanovich6411 And only three weeks a month

[@ismaelhall3990]

This is why I don't shame or blame anybody for not wanting to work.

[@stevearnold8265]

I honestly think some of the homeless have a set of big balls. To accept being homeless because they know work sucks is big ball energy.

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

@@stevearnold8265is that why they’re homeless? Or are the majority of homeless due to drug and alcohol abuse?

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

Me either. It’s also why I don’t care if folk go homeless or can’t feed their kids is they choose to not work

[@AP777-JC]

Same here. ❤

[@joebyrd1119]

Work is just a means of survival. Absolutely nothing else.

[@shiptj01]

Work is supposed to be enjoyable, but our society has made work torturous.

[@TomScryleus]

yes, there used to be pride in work. a sense of purpose. but somehow society and capitalism sucked the joy out of it.

[@deconstructingnarcissism3062]

Lmaoo who in the hell said that? I hate work just as much as the next guy but enjoyable? Lol

[@RialuCaos]

@@deconstructingnarcissism3062 It is actually satisfying when you create work that has a clear purpose and helps the people around you. When you are working just to make the rich even richer, it is not so satisfying.

[@deconstructingnarcissism3062]

@@RialuCaos yes I agree that is satisfying. But what I was referring to was a corporate job.

[@shiptj01]

@@deconstructingnarcissism3062 Did you read the second half of my comment? Lol

[@makarovaolabronislaw]

I was homeless, got addicted to drug's went to prison came out and Heaven came through for me in my finances too making $12,550 in just 1month in forex, rented my first apartment last week ,God has absolutely done more than enough

[@DavidHuff-t4c]

What a great news you are really doing, my finance are really in mess right now and great tip will really go along way in shaping my life too im open for idea

[@ElizaHannah-uy6pp]

I work at a restaurant here in Houston Texas. Things have been really difficult as I'm a single mom parent and trying my best to pay bills and take care of my daughters.

[@ariajames4677]

What a testimony!!! 🙏🙏🙏I'm genuinely curious to know how you earn that much monthly

[@makarovaolabronislaw]

I started pretty low though, $1000 thereabouts. The returns came massive. Joey is in school doing well, telling me of new friends he's meeting in school. Thank you Elizabeth Rossiello , you're a miracle

[@WesleyBarrow-y5w]

You don't have to be surprised, That's exactly her name( Elizabeth Rossiello ) so many people have recommended highly about her I'm huge beneficiary of his platform from Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺

[@TomScryleus]

"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." Morpheus (The Matrix)

[@CastleKnight7]

If you truly wish to escape the prison planet soul amnesia trap system, do not enter the light, no matter who tries (relatives, friends, religious archetypes, etc) to entice you into it. You are not a body. You have no karma to absolve. You have no sins to repent. You are an immortal spiritual being. That which animates the illusory bioengineered “physical” body.

[@swojnowski8214]

how system dies? by lack of maintenance, so do not touch it, just watch as it crashes ...

[@Spartan-Of-Truth]

@@swojnowski8214Kind of agree with this.

[@Worldofourown2024]

I call it the matrix of the big nothing.

[@Stylez-13]

My grandma told me not to go into the light ... She said go into the darkness when I die ​@@CastleKnight7

[@htee7426]

Living as a wage slave almost broke me - particularly in my last job where I experienced really unpleasant, unprofessional, incompetent management. No one should have to endure this, there should be so much more to life. Thank goodness I was able to walk away. Work to live, ideally for yourself not to line other’s pockets, do not live to work and do not mistake employers and most colleagues for friends.

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

No matter what you do you are lining other people’s pockets. If you work 15 minutes per year you are still lining other people’s pockets And there is no such thing as a wage slave. You literally say you were able to walk away so wtf were you a slave of?

[@ЯрославКривич-ч4э]

You should work for live, but you shouldn't live for work

[@MrSidReal]

I created my own work, I serve people. It is not work, it is purpose and passion, and I'd still do it if money didn't exist. I wish you all the best

[@rareroots]

I'm 66, had a commercial window cleaning business my whole career in SoCal, bought a small Homestead cabin for 10K in '01, live here full-time, I'm blessed good luck everyone. Work for yourself and give thanks to a higher power for everything is my suggestion.

[@PraiseYHWH]

Great advice! We need to erase the programming and see things for what they really are.

[@redraiderrider3289]

The planet isn't "dying", it's cycling. It will cycle until we are gone and then it will start over.

[@keithakers5871]

And eventually get sucked into the blackhole in the center of this galaxy.

[@Paul-g4e5i]

​@@keithakers5871Lol, yeah right.

[@deity752]

We are currently witnessing the greatest mass extinction of species in the history of our planet. Earth isn't "dying" per se. It's impossible for a planet to die, at least not in our lifetimes. But humankind is killing the species that live on it, and eventually, we will strangle ourselves as the resources that we have relied on for thousands of years dry up due to our activities. So, in a sense, when people say the planet is dying, they're not wrong. Our world as we know it is being destroyed, and we, as a species, are knowingly accelerating its destruction because of greed.

[@ЯрославКривич-ч4э]

Everything has an end

[@RawPower-69]

Climate change is a scam. They heated up the atmosphere with weather control stations all over the world. Then they use global warming baloney to con everyone and control them easier. Think how easy it will be when everyone is a vegan living in a wooden hut, scared of their carbon footprint.

[@redrider8036]

Billions of people are stuck in the matrix of wage slavery. From my perspective you have an unlimited audience that can benefit from your content. I am a new subscriber and can tell you that your videos resonate and validate what I have thought for quite a while. I definitely believe that we unknowingly trade our dream and purpose for someone else’s when we sign on the dotted line to trade our time for money. I have recently started a new job, and just two weeks in I’m disgusted with the lack of true compassion from the company to help hurting people. You would think that a “healthcare” company would care about people’s health. Actually the only way they make money is by people having disease and illness. I’m with you Tom about escaping, and I hope to lead the way for my children. Thanks for everything you do in the creation of your content! It’s serving as a lighthouse on the rocky shores of this reality.

[@gregabrams5792]

"We work because we have no purpose" That really hit hard. Thank you sir for opening my mind

[@FiStrategy]

A brilliant statement.

[@lizzysimner7715]

Totally agree what other purpose is there you could live in the wild and survive off the land and be extremely happy without a penny

[@BravestFlavor44]

Everyone has a purpose, find out what it is.

[@gregabrams5792]

@@lizzysimner7715 so true

[@EduardTheCraftsman]

"We work because we have no purpose... Keeping yourself busy so you never have to stare into the bottom of the Abyss, because doing that you will come to realize: there is nothing staring back." Man, this is so powerful! ❤‍🔥

[@iam1smiley1]

Moving and selling my business was the worst mistake I ever made! Now I work to exist with no money left 😢

[@Hakiro-c5d]

Most honest and authentic video I've ever seen! Good job man.

[@TomScryleus]

Thank you so much!

[@mazzicana]

The eye opener is when you go on a "vacation" and realise you are spending a year's work of savings to stay some place for 6 days barely affording in money and time to glimpse at stuff rather than living wher you want and doing what you like. The first step is to become a minimalist and reduce the wants, becoming happy with what you have, not replacing your phone because the new one came out, ...

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

I’m not a minimalist. I took my family to Disney entirely on target gift cards. Buy $50 worth of hair care products get a $10 gift card. I have a wife and two daughters. Never have enough hair care products. Took about three years to accumulate but we planned it out. Used points I get from work for the airfare, paid for the park tickets with gift cards. The only thing we paid for was the B&B and crap at the park.

[@itzryyster]

I totally agree. The past 6 months I sold off things I did not even need! Decluttered and feels SO MUCH BETTER!

[@Fido-vm9zi]

Oh, and you never help anyone who helped you. Nobody should bother.

[@kazbah1217]

​@@PeopleRTheProblemoh you paid for all those gift cards sweety, open your eyes 😂

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

@ no I didn’t darling. This is why you people can’t manage your finances. You don’t even know what finances are.

[@TomScryleus]

"I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it." - Morpheus (The Matrix)

[@MrFrobbo]

"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”

[@jackcarpenters3759]

There are people who are not aware of the matrix and they will even defend it if you threaten it.

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

That movie was made by people working longer than 40 hours for very little pay.

[@TrishThompson-l9i]

This is true my friend you are awake i feel the same way our government keeps us as a slave without bars

[@JozefTrubac]

How about a video about people that never question wage slavery. People in the office that don't see anything wrong with the corporate BS. I was always baffled by them.

[@mattb9664]

I work with a bunch like that. The one guy is one of those former football players that's like 6.5' and must weigh 275- he's a big boy. Thinks nothing of putting in all this effort- and he still hasn't gotten anything extra out of it as far as I can tell. Feels so fake when I have to try and make small talk with the guy...

[@timmy-dubs]

Sounds like the HR people

[@TomScryleus]

sadly, I would say thats most people.

[@innertuition7363]

a lot are NPC'S in this matrix.. soulless beings, no conscious thoughts ever.

[@furiousdestroyah9999]

Natural selection will take them when the time comes to turn the tables

[@esskayaussie286]

Reduce your consumerism to lessen the need to work around the clock. Stop buying all the unnecessary 'stuff', live simply and enjoy more of your own free time away from work.

[@lucianboar3489]

Yes, there's a choice to be made: you want more stuff or more free time. Of course, after a certain point where your more basic needs are covered, either by passive income or a sustainable amount of work, that doesn't drain you. I'd choose consumerism only if it's financed with work I like or I'm passionate about. Otherwise it's not worth it. If I get into something that pays big but is draining, I will choose downgrading.

[@sararatliff7707]

While the advice is sound, let's not ignore our current reality. We are living in a corporate greed crisis. The companies that generate the most profit are doing so through extreme exploitation and price gouging. The base minimum for survival is getting further and further out of reach because gas, food, and housing prices are sky high while workers are being paid less and less. And there's nowhere to run from it! Every single corner of the United States is suffering. Yes, keep an eye on your consumption of cool stuff and live as within your means as possible. Also acknowledge that people need SOME level of fun and comfort in this shitty system, and people will not be fully free until capitalism and the monsters that profit from it die.

[@lucianboar3489]

@@sararatliff7707 socialism is worse. There's only one big greedy monster, and you can't escape it. Trust me, I've lived in a socialist country and you were a slave there. If you want a milder form, that involves a fair bit of capitalism.

[@sararatliff7707]

@@lucianboar3489 which one? And there is a different between communism and socialism. I think it was Agentina who was doing fabulous as a socialist country in the 1960s, then the CIA came in and staged a military coup and fucked everything up.

[@FactsCountdown]

​@@sararatliff7707 the comfort of the rich depends on the abundant supply of poor. Cut the supply of poor people to the rich by stop breeding more slaves for the rich

[@WesselsReaper]

And all this starts with public education. We send our kids, who are so full of ideas, joy, excitement, IMAGINATION… and let the system slowly rip that out of them, and then wonder why we see fights, depression, ADHD, rebellion, school bang bangers, etc… I hate it…but how do we change it

[@Mellonen-Galadh]

There's a guy called Ted Kaczinsky with some interesting ideas about how to change it lol

[@abolisher]

The 40 hour work week is about control

[@viktorcreed2679]

Then quit...then ask yourself how will you escape the IRS? Hmmm How will you have means to feed yourself? Clothe yourself? House yourself? DIdn't think that far ahead now did we? Dumb ass

[@bradley6386]

Yea and by extension public school which mentally programs you to be a part of that system

[@ЯрославКривич-ч4э]

It's so right! Those motherfuckers have control of my ass.

[@ЯрославКривич-ч4э]

@@bradley6386 You should read about Prussian education system

[@frozenpancakes769]

It's even worse in eastern countries my friend, westerners have their work culture much better than eastern countries, people here work 60-70 hours including on Saturdays too, it's bad here, really bad. Life is worthless.

[@resistancepublishing]

It never fails. When I’m at work and I start talking about how much I hate the job, a few coworkers would say that I should be grateful that I have a job and I shouldn’t talk bad about the company. I just shake my head at the fact that these people are all wage slaves and happy

[@TomScryleus]

oh God, that argument "you should be grateful". I hate it so much. and yes, people in general really are just happy wage slaves. I think of that character in the matrix, Cypher. "ignorance is bliss".

[@Worldofourown2024]

They're not your friends so they'll trash talk you to the boss behind your back.

[@furiousdestroyah9999]

When brain rot does it's thing

[@resistancepublishing]

@@TomScryleus yes. I really dislike the “you should be grateful because you’re getting a paycheck” argument. The definition of a contract in the Bible is an agreement between two people who do not trust each other. My coworkers do not know the meaning of the word contract. I signed a contract with my job and I definitely do not trust them.

[@resistancepublishing]

@@Worldofourown2024 I’m very outspoken at work. I trust neither my coworkers nor the company itself. My coworkers already proved to me several times that they will stab me in the back to get on the good side of those in charge or to get promoted for a dollar more

[@jcgarcia1931]

Went from a comfortable white collar wage slave in the insurance industry to a gruelling blue collar job as an HVAC technician... Took a 50% cut in pay for the 1st few years. 12 years later, I now run my own HVAC company and I'm my own boss. I provide a needed service and I do it well. It's far more gratifying to be of real service to others and more rewarding financially too. Be truly productive to society doing something that you enjoy and the rest will work itself out. It won't be easy but if you're going to do something difficult, do it for yourself and reap your own rewards.

[@jamesskinnercouk]

Work was made unwholesome from the industrial revolution. We all just became something to be part of an ugly machine and forced into it because of the inaccessibility to land (here in Britain it was the enclosure act and the privatization of the commons). Before we were artisans and people with the seasons and the land and community mixed in with a deep spiritual connection. Now we are in an empty soulless void of numbers, cheques, and balances. I’ve written a book turned it into a KZbin video called “The Rose Bridge”, it’s all about how we can break out of this and move into a beautiful way of life.

[@nob4lett]

You're video just appeared on my feed. I'm 68, been retired around 3 years. I would say that I have experienced existential anxiety periodically, since I was around 20. My abiding thought is, after working since age 15, "What have I just done?". Please continue making your content Tom. If you set just one young person free, it will be worth it. To the rest of you youngsters. Do your damndest to avoid this trap. Good work Tom.

[@miketike3246]

I always find it amazing the way society constantly tells you what it's really feeling while pretending it doesn't in order to cope. The vocabulary we use gives it away. Going to a bar to drink after work is "happy hour", implying that the previous 8 hours were NOT happy. We use phrases like "How goes the battle?", another sarcastic admission. If working incessently year after year in a Capitalist company was so f*****g great, WHY do we use the word BATTLE to describe the process? A battle generally involves a struggle in which there is an ENEMY that you FIGHT. We are LITERALLY describing what we do every day as a war against a foe. GEE.

[@akinikula9939]

“If you say making money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living.” - Alan Watts

[@TomScryleus]

I love and hate Alan Watts. :) I've heard EVERY clip of his lectures on the Internet. Seriously.

[@akinikula9939]

@@TomScryleus I love his lectures too. And I love Your videos too. Keep on doing what You love and forget the money. Have You ever watched a short film Happiness by Steve Cutts?

[@TomScryleus]

no it doesn't sound familiar

[@titolovely8237]

when i started studying history and i learned most people were property owners and self employed it really made me realize just how utterly divergent our current system is from anything we've experienced in the past.

[@Ajax-t1q]

Yes agree, farmers still work from early morning to late afternoon and weekends and nights if their lambing or calfing .

[@euphoricbliss6699]

Yes I agree 100% there was more self employed people in the past. Every street had a shop, sweet shop, bakery, butchers you name it

[@Ajax-t1q]

@@euphoricbliss6699 agree and all of them amazing people work 10 / 12 hours a day , 6 days a week, mostly with out complaint .

[@Ajax-t1q]

@@euphoricbliss6699 yes agree, the self employed still work 10 to 12 hours a day , 6 days a week.

[@mr.mayhem1975]

Corporations, as an entity, were the invention of nobility to help defer the risks of grand ventures. The explorers who were trying to colonize the north american continent used this (the East India company) and some of the nobles literally funded it as a third-party entity. In essence, we have the greediest and worst people on the face or in the history of humanity to thank for what companies are today. They depersonalize people on purpose- it is literally their main function in every way you can think of.

[@jakobmayer9513]

You are like a modern poet, or philosopher. You are reflecting the existence of your own and sharing with others. This is wonderful, this is precious, this is your gift to us.... Thanks

[@daviddickey9832]

If you think about it, the work itself isnt bad, it's always the people that make it bad.

[@TomScryleus]

I mean, its true, and you actually gave me an idea for a future video. The jobs are usually good. and there is honor in most of them. but society and corporation sort of sucked the honor out of most jobs. you know what I mean?

[@lets_see_777]

true, bosses will make your life hell, most of this hustle culture is basically to getting out of this boss - employee relationship cause its kinda humiliating no matter what

[@nashman6154]

I have to say, that is usually the case.

[@shiptj01]

@@TomScryleus Yes.

[@TheDisco672]

Unrealistic expectations! And constant priority shifts

[@Volksinformant]

Who knows the dread of Sunday afternoon? I already had this feeling when I was at school. It was sometimes so strong that I couldn't do any activities on Sunday because it was impossible for me to enjoy them on that day. All joy was stifled on Sundays, even when I was at school. It's even worse when you're in work life. When I talk to people I know about this topic, they often get annoyed, sometimes even aggressive. They don't want to hear the word "wage slave". Then I get answers like this: "If you don't want to work, then you have to become homeless, it's as simple as that. What's your problem?" Or: "That's just life, everyone has to go through it, you too."

[@euphoricbliss6699]

Yeah I always hate Sundays for that reason too. I have to go to bed early just to cope lol

[@zvuchko9785]

Sundays have became unbearable. I have never felt worse in my entire life.

[@loveyourself1803]

I don’t even work and I hate Sundays. Sundays are full of depression and anxiety.

[@mikepackham5260]

Glad I'm not the only one who gets the Sunday angst and dreads the Email from work telling me where I'll be working for the coming week and I just love knowing I'll be driving 4/5 Hrs to and from site everyday so out of the house for 12/13 hrs everyday. I can't even enjoy the weekends as they are over so quick and Sunday the dread already sets in and the funny thing is my boss likes us to do weekend work as well I try to avoid it like the plague a few of my work colleagues would work everyday of the year if they could and they think I'm odd for not wanting to work weekends and turning down extra income. The Whole Rat Race Slavery system literally makes me sick.

[@CatherineBirch-m5r]

I remember Sunday evenings and how depressing they were. Me and my parents would listen to the radio on Sunday evenings because there was rarely anything worth watching on tv. I remember a programme called " sing something simple" That was the theme of Sunday evenings.

[@AlphaSniperAcademy]

My father once said to me "There is a reason they call it an occupation"

[@WageSlave_13]

You're as depressing as Hell to watch. But the reason this is so is because you're right.

[@TomScryleus]

I know... :( its not me, its the topic

[@oldbloke204]

So change your life or even try to appreciate the fact that having a job, a roof over your head, food in your stomach and even some free time puts you way ahead of so many others on this rock.

[@Harambe_]

@@oldbloke204 Terrible toxic positivity mentality. So we should just never improve anything because someone has it worse?

[@oldbloke204]

@@Harambe_ So explain to me how this sort of video on the internet is going to change anything? Only you can change things but whining about it all won't do anything imo. Toxic positivity? Seriously dude? A friend of ours is in the ICU atm with a life threatening illness that came on very quickly and unexpectedly and I'm guessing that they would rather be at work than where they are. I hated working most of the time but I also understood that it was what I had to do to achieve the things I wanted in life.

[@lw3427]

@WageSlave_13, love the username. I like the videos and reading the comments so I know there are others who think and feel the same way about the corporate world. Part of it is the misery loves company mentality, lol.

[@je4nette]

Some people are too intelligent to gaslight themselves into the standard opinion of "that's just the way it is". However, the work system is quite a genius way of population control, though. You know where people are 8 hours of the day, and they're too tired too question the system.

[@pdpc1013]

Exactly. That's the real point. Control, submission and guarding their privileged position of authority and rule.

[@PraiseYHWH]

Weak-end

[@RawPower-69]

They don't want people figuring out their own reality. So they have to keep them busy and tired.

[@lucycallaghan8435]

How else would people get a mort-cage if they didn’t work.

[@je4nette]

@@lucycallaghan8435 people can barely afford a mortgage with a full time job. The goal isn't to avoid work, it's about not wanting to be controlled by power hungry bosses who do f all, treat you like crap and earn significantly more than you.

[@StudioStoffel]

Thnx for the video! This was the first time I saw one of yours… really liked the honesty and loved the vlog part at the end. I hope you get the inspiration you need when you are on your break. Comments can be positive too; So, Tom, nice video! “Work to live”has been my mantra for a decade now… I only work part time and do side hustles to get the fancy stuff. I own a house, have a lovely wife and 2 beautiful kids. And you will never ever see me work a 9-5 again. Sure it is tight sometimes, but that’s the life I’ve chosen. Happy holidays to you, and keep at it! 👊🏻

[@Jaime-eg4eb]

Not only is the loop of work to live to work nonsensical, but also the output of a lot of the work we do is useless. It's like a really bad joke, but it's our lives. That's what happens when your rulers are psychopaths.

[@Harambe_]

So many jobs essentially create useless garbage that goes straight to landfill or pointless luxury items that don't actually have a better function. Even the necessary jobs have useless components of providing services to the useless garbage producers.

[@kosfireandbushcraft]

working is now detached from personal gain. today you can work 40 hours and not get by. you work but you can't sustain yourself. the system is effed.

[@Ajax-t1q]

Maybe you could get into farm work .

[@Jaime-eg4eb]

@@Ajax-t1q maybe I'll try it in the future, but: a) you need a lot of capital to make it viable b) even if it is, one bad swing of the weather and you can go broke There's a reason we are not all farmers

[@Ajax-t1q]

@@Jaime-eg4eb there's plenty of farm owners that need workers, you would get a start within a week.

[@HandsomeBlackMusle]

You don't need 90% of the material possession you own. Society told you that you need them. CONTROL is the goal

[@midnightportal]

Hi. I am so glad that I found this video. A few tears fell while watching it... love how open and authentic you are.

[@user-pm7ck6ij9s]

"Once i started working my life would be over" this hit hard - I didn't realize when I had finished 11 years of university that I would feel the same way. I was caught in a trap of making money to pay taxes and bills with no escape. Passive income is not truly passive, its a hustle too. So now I opt instead to turn down the noise. I work Monday to Thursday, I leave at 4 pm, take fewer files. The minute I feel rushed I know I am out of balance so I slow down again.I quit spending because if you don't spend it you don't have to earn it. It's still a form of wage slavery but with reduced hours.

[@TomScryleus]

Thank you for sharing your experience. It sounds good that you only work 4 days per week. regarding passive income, yes there is some work, I have 8 passive income streams, so I know. But its minimal compared to trading time for money. And thats actually the definition of passive income, passive doesn't mean no work.

[@augustusbrown5320]

Bingo

[@meditator-w6l]

I felt the same. That line hit me really really hard.

[@itzryyster]

Exactly this!!! 👌🏼 Use to try and be #1, but for what? Ultimately I just took my time. Do the best I can and call it a day.

[@johnoakley6362]

I started work at 13 years old, it was weekend and school holiday work. On weekends I worked on a street market, assisting the owner of the stall in setting up, and then selling their wares from the market stall. They sold underwear and socks. On school holiday times, I worked for a floor laying company, we laid everything from carpets, to lino, to parque woodblock flooring. I started young because I came from a one parent family, and my mother really needed the money to feed us, us being Mother, younger brother, and myself. At 18 years of age, I joined the British army, I served for 6 years. On coming out of the army, I got a job at a butchers shop, I started as a "Butchers cutter", and worked my way up to being a qualified butcher. At 29 years old, I moved from London to Kent, and changed my job to a 7.5 ton lorry driver, transporting soft drinks. At 30 years old, I joined the London ambulance service, and worked my way up to management level, over the next 30 years. I retired two years ago, I'm now 62 years old. I am now pyshically disabled ,being unable to walk, and live my existence in an electric wheelchair. Like you Tom, I did what I felt I ought to do work wise, and like you, I questioned everything, and could never see the sense in why I needed to work to have some kind of existence. Sure, the money paid for food, paid the rent, and other bills. It was the tax that really upset me, I couldn't see why some faceless entity would come along and claim a sizable portion of the money I earned, without sharing in the labour of obtaining that money. I've subscribed to your channel Tom, and look forward to listening to your future videos, thank you.

[@jjones9550]

You are so right. I stopped working due to health issues and it's never easy. I'm in my early 40s.

[@arnoldrimmer9161]

Same here, it really angers me at how they can just steal money direct from your wages every month. I wouldn’t mind so much if the UK was safe, cheap public transport, pot hole and jam free roads and great health service but it’s non of these, in fact I’d say it’s become a shit hole. Yet stats show for every £1 we earn and spend nearly 70p goes back the thieving government in taxes. We literally work from January to August for free. Billions are payed for hotel rooms for you know who yet they have the gal to take pensioners benefits away because they have ‘no money’. We are being taken for mugs. No one on their death bed has ever said ‘I wish I had worked harder’ No wonder people are fleeing the UK in their thousands every year.

[@Metapixel0]

No matter how hard we work and change our patterns to get ahead in life the goal posts get shifted to block this. It used to be the mans wage was enough bread and the wife kept the home and brought up the kids. Then some women began to work to have a bit more to spend. This then became a normality. Mental health of both adults and our children has sky rocketed. Children need emotional parental caregiving 24/7 they are no longer getting anywhere near enough of their parents time and its beginning to show. Such a shame the greed

[@mikejarrells431]

Your life. Your choice. Don't settle. Break the cycle. Rebel. We got this. Let's go!

[@xaverbishop6506]

How?

[@mikejarrells431]

@@xaverbishop6506 Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE).

[@Trahzy]

So, have a trust fund? Sorry but I have to work for money.

[@mikejarrells431]

@@Trahzy I did my time (20 years). Think of it as indentured servitude. It can be done.

[@winterwulf1995]

Why? In three generations nobody will remember I existed anyway It's all meaningless

[@theotherside5865]

Wage slavery is bad for mental health. Great video.

[@joebyrd1119]

Wage slavery will make you want to escape through drugs/alcohol or even worse...

[@trishh.7675]

God!.....am I glad I came across this Video!!!!! I have hardly ever heard anyone saying EXACTLY what I think about "Work"....until now! I'm 65 yrs. And I've seen many people simply WORK themselves right up into the GRAVE......and still died with nothing but pain and ill health. Very well put and articulated.... Enjoy every minute playing with your drone and thank you for making this content. ❤

[@akshatrastogi9063]

Wow, even if I haven't worked in a corporate job, I can feel everything you are saying as I have a strong ability to recognize which jobs are bullshit and which are not. I am rebel in my own head and I question the economic model we are living in. When I see people being so busy working 9-5pm that they don't even have time for love, I find it hard to imagine for what these people are even working. Most people are not aware that inflation is a scam, growth at any cost is a scam, GDP growth is a scam. Most of these are manifestation of inflation which is imposed on us by government due to money printing which is propelled by the rich who can take infinite loans and buy real estate (a non-productive asset). Its a matrix, I know my way out as I can see everything from birds eye view.

[@sameershah972]

Well said,there is a woman,who got died due to work pressure,they got her working day and night until she get cardiac arrest.she was working as a chartered accountant.

[@TomScryleus]

geez, thats terrible!

[@sameershah972]

@@TomScryleus yeah and company employer kept discourage her to say,you don't work good to make her work more for the company.

[@lets_see_777]

@@TomScryleus it EY, so called big 4

[@lucianboar3489]

And many others like her, at the same firm, but in other countries, throughout the years..

[@themsmloveswar3985]

Did the asshole who was her boss get another replacement ?

[@hentesguitarchannel811]

This was the first video the KZbin algorithm recommended to me, and somehow I related to everything you said. At 32, I often feel trapped in my job, exchanging time for money. I've always been passionate about music, but it never truly took off. Recently, I took the leap to create music-related KZbin content. I'm still learning and improving, but at least I'm doing something I feel passionate about. Watching this video reassures me that I'm not alone in feeling this way. Your genuine approach to this topic really stands out. Thank you for your content! I'm looking forward to exploring more of your videos on wage slavery. Please keep making these; they matter. All the best!

[@glebrukan1101]

Thanks for your videos man. They remind me that life is more than just office from Monday to Friday . Hello from Russia

[@TomScryleus]

thank you. I really appreciate your kind words. have a great Sunday!

[@orthodox_gentleman]

I wish I could leave the US and live in Russia! Pray for me!

[@anaritagomes4490]

"I would have cried, but the antidepressants kept the tears on the inside" - so relatable. Your perspective on work is equal to mine, I admire your videos, thank you for putting them out there.

[@ЯрославКривич-ч4э]

People we can live without this crap. Say no for antidepressants.

[@RawPower-69]

They are bad drugs. Get a blood test and make sure they check for magnesium, potassium, and calcium. For a start.

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

"We work because we have no purpose" So true! I have to remember that one!

[@Dan_Campbell]

Thanks, chief. We'll come around eventually. This despair is more universal than many people are willing to admit.

[@TomScryleus]

thank you Dan. Did you like the video?

[@Dan_Campbell]

@@TomScryleus Sure, if ya like being more depressed, it was terrific. I think your vantage point will be taken more seriously in the coming years, as AIs start to change things ; or we start to change things, because they will make suggestions they can prove to be valid. I don't think it's a matter of them just 'taking our jobs'. I think society itself will be transformed so drastically, those jobs won't be necessary anymore. From then, people will look back out of the current box, and clearly see what Wage Slavery did to our minds & spirits.

[@TomScryleus]

Im a huge fan of AI. I see no downside.

[@jeflha]

When I was around 12 years old, the great recession just happened, and I could hear on the news how young graduates couldn't find any work. I thought to myself: "Is this how it is supposed to go? I went to kindergarten to prepare for primary school, to prepare for midde school, to prepare for high school, to prepare for college, so that I can get a degree in a field in which the labormarket may or may no have any use? Do I have to work for 12 more years, as many years as I've been alive, for this?" It disillusioned me, and I've been struggling with my life since. But I won't give up on trying to find meaning and worth in life, nor of helping others to find theirs.

[@scottnoricsson2023]

I am fucked up beyond repair... I don't see a viable exit , a way out of this waking nightmare...

[@thanktink4328]

The toughest part for me is when I wake up, my reality hits me hard and I ask what can do that would make it feel better, and I do those things. Listen to your thoughts, and agree or don't agree, you get to decide what thoughts you want to hear, because that's how you will feel all day. Think yourself better my friend. There will be an upswing and life will feel worthwhile again. ❤

[@TomScryleus]

I hope you like this video.

[@swojnowski8214]

i do not watch your vids, nor others on YT, but like the comment section. Reading is king, vids are brain rot inducers, so not for me ...

[@ashlavanadis]

I love this video and your work

[@oldbloke204]

Is this one any different to all the other ones you've done on this topic? You're creative and good at making videos but the subject matter is pretty tragic imo.

[@shhwinner6663]

i do it resonates with me very much

[@shafserious2805]

Master class. Wish u dnt leave us this year❤

[@TheRamblingsofBry]

I hear you. I felt the same [for years]...when I was 48 I threw my life in the bin, jacked my job in, sold or gave away lots of 'stuff', sold my house and went travelling, for 4 years. I sold my art and books along the way, I survived!!! I am now 62, been retired for 14 years, live frugally and enjoy living my life. It can be done, you just need to find YOUR way....

[@curaturable]

Amazing!!! You Ar brave strong admire you!! ❤❤❤Hugs! 🤗

[@MikeJohnson-r6g]

I agree, I’m sick of it. Worked to the point of death from 2 blood clots. Still recovering 3 years later. And for what? Still broke, still in debt. I sure would love for someone to approach me with compassion to say they have a different way for me. But that’s not how humanity operates is it?

[@jedics1]

Ive had a "bad work ethic" for the last 20 years when I came to the conclusion that I'd rather my time than money, jobs made me an anxious miserable mess and I'd FAR rather be poor and free of those feelings. 20 years later and my selfish attitude has been vindicated with the economic sh!t show we have now where millions will work there whole life and "own nothing and be happy" or not....

[@bioliv1]

""Nobody wants to work anymore." Nobody ever wanted to work at all. We wanted to be productive, be creative, be part of a community, be supported, be validated, and have the time and space to truly rest. No one actually wants to trade in hours of their life to "earn" necessities. Why pay to live on a planet we were born on?" - Jason-cz3bv

[@Vinny2fingers]

I always hated this system of wage slavery. It never felt right to me. I've seen good people do ugly things because they were so stressed out from the endless grind we're supposed to be happy for. I've heard so called workaholics complain in secret to me that they feel their life has been wasted. Seen loyal employees get thrown away once their older and the company wants fresh feet instead. I could go on and on.

[@estan247]

11:29 the video is not over. It’s just getting started. I’ve watched how you have improved your message and videos over the years Tom. Keep having fun.

[@ryan99842]

I suggest reading a book 'Bruce Thornwood: Unveiling Your Hidden Potential' if you want to know how to man up. Just follow everything writer suggests in there, it's one of the best reads I had in a while.

[@seagirl1100]

Looked for the book, but can’t locate Unveiling Hidden Potential Bruce Thornwood

[@hugomikaelsson4055]

Someone once said that work is a blessing disguised as a curse.

[@althunder4269]

It's all about the control of people. The company wants total control over the employees so they can use the workers up, maximum productivity.

[@NZTiberius2023]

They totally do. They even restrict you having secondary employment (side hustle) because they want to exploit 100% of you and wear you out. They don't want you to have any chance at escape.

[@graveyardghost2603]

I was a wage slave for 30 years...then I became disabled and got to stay home and do things I enjoy, like painting and reading. I struggle to live on SS but I'm thankful every day for my disability that got me out of slavery! I feel so sorry for others who aren't able to escape 😢

[@creativeperspectives2712]

I am eligible for retirement after two years but I could not wait so applying for disability.

[@michahelhamilton-vf7sd]

S.S. IS Socialism Slavery; so, 'GOOD LUCK!' J.O.B.= Just Over Burdening. PERIOD Let every One Who is OVER BURDENED come un-to 'Me!' Take ❤.

[@noah1up]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Wannabe_Aviator]

1. The quality of your video was awesome. 2. The content of the video is certainly authentic. 3. Keep going with what you doing, you already on your way to fulfil your purpose in life, and have made a difference in mine. 4. I thank you for your time and effort.

[@rustybrand8103]

9:40 It is not so important to save the planet. Aim to do no harm, treat people as you would like to be treated, avoid causing others to suffer at your expense eherever possible but you are correct, we are just organic matter. The planet will still continue without human life; other life forms will become dominant, ecosystems will change and recover over millions of years. The planet will continue without human life Great video btw! Thankyou Tom

[@user-mr2eo9we3n]

My kids boss pulled up in a new Porsche last week (she is driving an old car and can barely pay her expenses and let me say it’s her needs, not a materialistic girl). She told him it was a nice car. “If you work hard, collect payments from debtors, and strive for excellence, I’ll get another brand new one next year!”, he said. True story. She came home crying because he’s underpaying her. She holds 3 Bachelor degrees and her professors told her she’s worth $60/hr and makes only $18/hr. in our area.

[@godandfamilyalways8149]

She should look around for a better job, even if she has to take a buck an hour cut and find a way to make it up elsewhere. It isn't worth working for A-holes. At all.

[@KLisicki]

I had my manager recently give me a personal development review, it was a horrible feeling of being in a room being cross examined as he presented me emails from other manager's describing my work attitude and body language, i was called out for being arrogant,, opionated, judgemental. I was outspoken because management was making mistakes and not listening to me, now i feel like im being programmed to behave and not to be outspoken because the managers dont like being told the truth. Ive always had a problem with authority since child day's, but the managers earn big bucks for little work and i work my body to the ground only to get peanut's. This recent event at work has made me consider drastically to move away from that environment and pursue my ambitions on my own term's.

[@devilswhiskey]

If everyone just walked away from their corporate jobs, corporations would be no more.

[@TomScryleus]

true

[@stuffchat]

Yeah. And then we can all eat the free grass of the fields and be skinny and have no mass produced clothing or shelter and die happy ravaged by the elements. Rock on!

[@devilswhiskey]

@@stuffchat slave mentality

[@winterwulf1995]

​@@stuffchatAh yes because humans are completely incapable of building shelter and planting crops. Good thing Walmart existed first right?

[@arielgoldfarb4118]

Yeah but the idiots keep having kids so that means they have to own a house and they have another expenses. So the circle of suffering and unhappiness continues in eternum. Not to mention all the assholess who think they will be millonaires someday.

[@ButteredWaffle86]

I respect your work. You're saying what everyone feels but accepts as the only option. Keep it up man.

[@TomScryleus]

Thank you so much. appreciate your kind words. I wish more people talked about this.

[@germangmd]

Amazing video man. Working on office since 2005. Im fighting since 2010 to become an entrepreneur. And this year, 2024, i see light at the end of the tunel. I sacrifficed so many things to do this, my girl of 10 years left me, lost a lot of friends, but i think im getting there. Im almost 40. You have to fight for your dream, but you will lost a lot in the way of becoming who you want to be. And it hits very hard. But you can not make someone happy if you are not happy first. Work on yourself first, rest just will come. Best wishes from Argentina.

[@manuelllamas5699]

The more materials/comfort you want, the more you become slave to work. We can all call it quits and just live for the essentials, a “simple life,” but that presents another set of challenges. Find a balance. Change your outlook. Regardless you have to work to survive. Observe nature, even it must work just to survive.

[@madmikemackas]

We just need more people like you, man. This whole thing has to end. This whole system of trading our time for meager amounts of money.

[@Hibbo89]

I needed this today. I refuse to be a wage slave. I'm a department manager for a large heating company and realised around a year ago that it's utterly pointless. All I did was work to line someone else's pockets. The budget review meetings that we all worked so hard to get the 5% saving on profits to get a 10% of your monthly salary bonus are a ploy to make us make more money... I've got my own small woodworking business on the side now. It takes up all of my time away from the salaried job. But, it's for me. Yesterday, my biggest order to date got lost in the postal service... a £600 order lost. Luckily I paid extra to fully insure it. But I've now got to wait for the appeal and pay out, and in the meantime, remake the order I have already completed once. I have questioned the point of bothering to try to get out of the wage slavery over the past two days so seeing this video has reminded me why I am trying and why I shouldn't give up. Thank you. Have a great rest of the year!

[@Strengtharchive80]

I’m leaving my job in January next year. My soul is drained from my employment. I’ve been working towards it all this year, and if It doesn’t work at least I can look at myself and say I gave it a shot

[@euphoricbliss6699]

I'm in the same boat, I wish you happy sailing ⛵️

[@mtrest4]

Before you leave, make sure you have something to jump to. Don't just leave. You want to plan this jump and land on your feet 🦶. And since you are going to jump, you may as well aim for something higher. Good luck sir. 👍

[@DixieDaydreamer]

I've hated working for a living since I was 18, I'm 53 now and every hour I spend at work is lost and I've now got less hours ahead than behind, I don't have time to waste. I've put lots of things in place and fingers crossed I'm planning to be done within 5 years but if I can bring it forward with even more sacrifices, then so be it. What I can't understand is these people who keep working, especially when they have the money to go do some many interesting things. i work with a few people who are almost 60 and they just keep plodding along, come in every day, they make very good money but they have nothing in their lives other than "sleep, eat, work, eat, sleep". I've said why don;t you retire, surely you can afford to now? They say yes but it's just easier to keep working until they fathom out something better to do. What a sad waste, they never will find anything 'cos they're not actively looking for a better way of life. That's the tragedy, they will probably be forced to retire and then die early 'cos they had nothing to live for other than work. I have my photography, I want to turn pro but there's no real money in it anymore so I've got to have some money in case I don't make enough but I have a fixed date for when I'm quitting the rat-race, it's less than 5 years away. I'm just going to quit and then go chase my dreams before they finally die, my dreams are bt more tatty and worn out than they were 20 years ago but there's enough there for me to do soemthing. As someone who's worked for 35+ years now, I'll give you my favrourite TV quote from a very old BBC comedy called Porridge where the hero says, "Don't let the bastards grind you down!".

[@DawnTrelawney]

It is awesome and a great relief to see someone on KZbin that is saying the same thing I've been saying for years. I am set to retire in 8 years, but when I look at the money I will have, I will have to work at least part-time for the rest of my life just to meet my bills. No wonder a lot of us see no reason to go on.

[@d8bn]

"If you don't have the soul of a dreamer, how can work be so crushing?" So true.

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

It doesn’t even make sense. Especially since work isn’t crushing

[@bcusaaus4749]

I live by “ be prepared for NOT IF but WHEN a company decide to let you go”. I’m ready and prepared financially, my big lesson from the past that I wasn’t and it SUCKS. I now keep it mostly to myself cause I get too much negativity from friends( btw, there broke and it scares the 💩 out of them cause they have no plan and still live paycheck to paycheck)

[@ourlifeinwyoming4654]

I’m 59 years old. When I was 18, one night I stared out a dark window into the winter night and decided that night I was striking out on my own. 40 years later, after a career, family, education, making a difference in the world, etc., I found myself yet again staring out that window wondering what it was all about. I feel blessed to have retired early due to a physical disability. Without my physical limitations I would’ve kept working. Being out of the wage race has caused me to examine everything that is who I am. I have no answers but I do enjoy not spending my days in mental misery at work. The struggle never ends, but it’s sure nice to know I’m not alone. Thanks.

[@search4knowledge2000]

It is hard to find that balance for many of us who are working for money while at the same time we are wanting to find that time we need for ourselves to do the things in life that bring us fullfillment outside our work.

[@TomScryleus]

I agree.. I have no balance, since I only have the weekends to enjoy.

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

@@TomScryleusthat’s balance.

[@PeopleRTheProblem]

How can you do things that are fulfilling with no money?