The REAL Reason No One Wants To Work Anymore

[@Hodenkat]

Nobody wants to work 40 hours a week for 40 years and never be able to buy a home or retire.

[@Ongxa86]

Didn't people also work 3x harder and longer hours then? Not this whole idea of 40 hours work week...only in America. The rest of the world doesn't operate on 40 hours work week. But I agree that the main problem is government spending and tax. Tax is so out of control now...

[@navarrouk3487]

Is really their agenda! You’ll have nothing, but you’ll be happy. Gates, zucker, bezzos, etc… they always want more!

[@willjohn1005]

No they realized that 1 person can do more than I position with in the company!!!!

[@robbiem4624]

all set by baby boomers who are doing great since Regan and the only people they hire or promote are their family members.

[@deathbyslime6725]

I have to work at least 60 hours week to get at least 1.000, last week I put around 80. with 40 I would be homeless.

[@thomasbruner854]

Back in 1971, I made $2.65/hr., was able to finance a new car, have a nice apartment, and still save a little. It was in retail, and we had full medical, life insurance, and a defined pension plan, I'm not joking!

[@301cameosis]

I believe you...I remember those days...no chance these days...

[@rightnowiseverything2521]

In the late 80's I made 10bux an hr as a budding chef. I was able to rent a nice apartment, a decent car, food and bills paid and had enough to go out from time to time.. Full medical, dental and free meals.. Good luck with that today..

[@johnwelch3016]

You guys are right,,,,guys,,,,you can't do that today with this kind of inflation 😅😅😅

[@EepyBnnuy]

@@johnwelch3016 thanks to “the king of inflation,” at least he acknowledges himself as such. Wants to be a monarch so bad.

[@thomasbruner854]

If you are referring to my comment it certainly was true. I worked a minimum of 40 hrs with a little overtime now and then. Remember, I'm talking about 53 years ago buddy!@@Latenightnonsense-td5yd

[@maximumtrollmagic]

Companies have discovered that they can still function despite being short staffed. No one wants to be doing the job of two people. People are getting burnt out.

[@DamonCassidy]

When I started at the bank we had 11 employees at all times and were very busy. When I left we were even busier with the Austin growth and had 4-5 employees. Not to mention we had to start taking 30 minute lunches when we used to do an hour. Not saying this for a pity party just an example of the ghost crews.

[@OtisBigsbyTalking]

@@DamonCassidyWorked in health care for quite a few years and it was brutal! No one that left was ever replaced… Execs got their bonuses though…

[@trulyso734]

Just a 2 people job? I think we are supposed to be ai clones now. Thats how crazy the world has got

[@newNILRULEisgreat.2504]

Greed will destroy them. Be ready - if you have lived with nothing- you will survive with nothing- the guy jumping off the 32 story in 1932 will repeat itself. He didn't live in a life experiencing being poor.

[@sharonsloan]

If every employee started working to rule, companies would suffer enough to get more staff.

[@joelaaron5551]

When meeting your basic survival needs has become unaffordable, work becomes distasteful.

[@andycampbell8622]

@@joelaaron5551 paid. 1/4 of a living wage and treated like shit by conservatives and right wing media. Calling us lazy for not wanting to be slaves is ridiculous

[@ctreacts1537]

@@andycampbell8622it’s not just the right wing dude have you noticed the last 4 years the democrats were all in power? They’re all in it, us vs them.

[@Smuggler169]

My late father born in 1940 had a 10th grade education and worked as a maintenance man all his life. My mom stayed home. Money was tight but we still made it. And he got a pension and medical. Those days are gone!!!!!

[@DamonCassidy]

I believe what many of us are struggling with is simply the fact our dollar is worth nothing anymore. Not to mention the loss of a pension. Thank you for sharing this with us!

[@HeadStronger-HS]

I have 2 master degrees and several certifications, no pension no medical and little savings.. good times

[@Platos-Den]

​@@HeadStronger-HS 2 masters degrees in what?? And how old are you?

[@Adnancorner]

Avg house price in 1950 in Oregon was 10,000 dollars. People earning 1000 dollars a year can easily save enough within a decade to buy a house for themselves, or build it slowly. None of it is present today. People still earning in thousands and house prices are in millions.

[@Adnancorner]

@@HeadStronger-HS why do you need 2 degrees ? are you confused ? changing careers ? complete fake

[@cactuscanuck6802]

Sir Richard Branson said, "Train your employees so well that they could work anywhere. Treat them so well that they'll never want to leave." I've been in the work force since age 15. Now, 37 years later, scumbag corporations and bosses are more prevalent and more terrible than ever. The only work satisfaction I've had in the last 6 years was handing a now former boss his ass for violating both the Employment Act as well as contractual terms of my employment. I won every penny of my claim. Pretty sad this is what it has come to

[@krono5el]

The Natives of the Americas were right all along.

[@aowen2471]

Unfortunately most corporate bosses follow Jack Walsh way and not Richard Branson way. A former Boeing boss CEO Jim McNerney stated about experienced workers who knew how to build planes and took pride ... “phenomenally talented assholes,”

[@robertmartin995]

I think there was a change in corporate mentality in the late 80's through the 90's. It is then that the pension started to be replaced with 401k. It is also when companies were forced to give fringe benefits to all full time employees. Finally it is the time when "new blood" became more important than experience.

[@LobotomyDC]

Makes you want to be dangerous, doesn't it? Gives you perspective on why those USPS employees did what they did in the 90s, doesn't it?

[@miltonnoguchi4956]

Anybody remember "CHAINSAW AL DUNLAP", at Sunbearm... ? His Business Specialty was "TURNAROUND ARTIST", so you can imagine what he was like to work for... !!!

[@SenorTucano]

It’s not that people don’t want to work anymore, it’s that they don’t want to work for the pitiful wages being offered and have most of those wages stolen in taxes.

[@brianmeegan6384]

Then open your own business.

[@bobwild9995]

@@brianmeegan6384 Agree....... 34 years now I've been a DBA, great on the taxes, freedom from corporate BS, do your own thing.......more or less, but totally BS on the state level (NYS don't like us) but moving out of this red state now.

[@grammajam3682]

​@@brianmeegan6384those cost money. lots of people don't have that

[@travisadams4470]

​@brianmeegan6384 BS. Big government and corporations doesn't want small business to succeed. Some states are anti small business

[@Fun4GA]

@@travisadams4470- Some, or all? There are always roadblocks in life. Figure out how to get around them or take a better route.

[@Spammflavor]

I understand what he's saying. I sold my soul to my industry. 3 years ago, I burned myself out. I went to bosses and asked to get my hours changed. A company I worked for 27 years. They told me no. And if I had a problem, I could find another job. So I spent the next 6 months cutting my lifestyle down, too, what I needed to survive. And I did it. I walked away, and it's been 3 years. At my last doctor's appointment, he took off my blood pressure and told me. I'm healthy, then I've been in the past 15 years. And im over 50. I'm happy. I changed my whole life. Everything I was doing was slowly killing me. Now I have way more time for my garden. And my family. And some friends, of course, those friends that we're friends because of what I did for them left. Now I know who my real friends are. I recommend anyone to revaluate the life you are living. There's no reason to stress over negative things in life. That darkness will always be there. Break free from the darkness. It's so much better. Things don't Devine you as a person.

[@Tryp-j9d]

@@Spammflavor You’re a WIMP!!!! And 27 years aint SQUAT!!!

[@kenscott9656]

I did the same thing, i lowered my cost of living and as soon as i got out of debt i quit my job and never worked again. I just wish i did it many years ago, but it is great not to have a boss and to wake up when i want and do what i want, Congrats!!!

[@davidmende4438]

Your bosses paid you enough to retire early. Send them a fruit basket.

[@Spammflavor]

@davidmende4438 I was a hard worker, and I made some smart investments. But I do go without certain luxuries. Some people might not be too live without. I'm good with it.

[@kenscott9656]

@@davidmende4438 not in a million years i had to wait right until my 65 to retire, the company got their pound of flesh and yes my retirement is awesome!!!

[@HooliTV]

The problem is we are run by everyone who has sold their soul. The good guy loses every time

[@DamonCassidy]

Not to mention the corruption of ones soul when actually pursuing to do good. Represented well in the show Ozark (in my opinion). I believe you are right in many ways. Of course their are those still intending to do good in leadership roles, and I do believe their is and will always be hope for good to prevail. Thank you for reaching out!

[@psalmistdavy5626]

Not every time.

[@DopamineDecor]

😢

Its paper.

[@Adnancorner]

Its the unimaginable taxation to take everything from you and give nothing in return.

[@DebraMcKinney-t1y]

CEO-to-worker compensation ratio reached 344-to-1 in 2022. This stands in stark contrast to the 21-to-1 ratio in 1965. People are tired of working to make these jerks rich and not being able to make any progress in their own lives.

[@toddlavigne6441]

100% true

[@Marj_Lp888]

Slave wage I'm out😊

[@Xetenor]

10000%

[@Fun4GA]

Time to start your own business. Really! You’ll never be happy until you’re the jerk getting rich off the people that have never taken effort to run the business themself. What’s stopping you?

[@Cryostal]

That comparison is garbage and you're ignorance is blatant

[@the7thcircle734]

Allow me to reiterate this. The idea is "people want to work...just not for you."

[@jenamirgholi6004]

people want to work with

[@bobinthewest8559]

The simplest answer is: People are just sick and tired of working harder and harder (longer hours, increasing responsibilities, greater demands from employers, etc), while simultaneously falling further and further behind. Wages have never really kept pace with inflation… but used to at least appear to be “chasing” it. These days, the gap between inflation and wages, is nearly as absurd as the gap between the salaries of the CEO’s and the rest of the workforce. And the corporations are consistently telling you that YOUR JOB will never “really be” worth more than the same level of compensation it fetched in the late eighties/early nineties. People are working longer hours, additional jobs, carrying the workload of colleagues who have been cut, etc… yet are unable to even match the lifestyle they easily maintained twenty years ago. Many can not even afford housing or to properly feed themselves or their families, despite working anywhere between sixty to a hundred hours per week (while constantly being told “the economy is stronger than ever”), and they want to know, “if the economy is doing so well, why am I living in my car?”

[@drmidnight680-kz2le]

Employee wages are negotiable just like people go to the car lot and negotiate the price of the car. Cars are worth money. Your labor is worth money, therefore both are negotiable and subject to supply and demand. Right now, there's no need for your labor, and when there is a need they can pay illegal aliens less, so they'll hire them and you can get lost. It's fair after all you negotiate the price where you can, that means it's ok to negotiate on business because that's what you do.

[@cjay2]

People don't want to work for corporations anymore - simple. They want to work doing something worthwhile.

[@HumanResource-sp6fg]

Thank you !!!!100 percent correct !!!!

[@aceventura5398]

The house my dad bought was just. $ 3,000. It was 2 years wages. Today it's worth $1,000,000 + 20 years wages. Tomorrow a billion. Work for what... a chain of debt one can never be released from.

[@jaydenp4975]

My parents paid 125k for their house in 1985. It’s now worth 1.2 million. Back then between the two of them they made less than 60,000 per year.

[@andrew_owens7680]

Plenty of people want to work. They expect a living wage to do it.

[@robertshorthill6836]

I feel so sorry for pre-teen kids in this era. They have no idea what their working years will be like. My advice to any of them would be to get into some sort of medical field. Here we are, half way into 2024. There is a shortage of doctors and nurses all over the US and others in the med field.

[@jaklynns_exotic_critters]

​@@robertshorthill6836they can't afford the student loans that come with the degree.

[@greywolf9783]

​@@robertshorthill6836It's also one of the hardest most pressing sectors of work, though.

[@wekky420ranarr]

@@robertshorthill6836 good advice however be careful as it could be comp-sci type of problem where in a matter of 10 years it went from one of the most desirable to one of the most oversaturated job markets.

[@kidcoyoteanarchy]

​@@robertshorthill6836I agree but most nurses are overworked and under paid. And not everyone can be a doctor.

[@stephenbonaduce7852]

When I was a boy, in the early 1970s, our family lived in the suburbs. Almost without exception, every Dad in the neighborhood went to work in the morning, and almost every Mom was home with the kids (except one lady, who was a schoolteacher). All the kids played together in the neighborhoods yards, street, and various driveway basketball hoops. We knew every one of our neighbors and we even had neighborhood cookouts and events for holidays like the Fourth of July and Christmas. I didn't realize, at the time, how good I had it. One year, one of the Dads in our neighborhood was laid off. The adults spoke of it in hushed tones, as if he had died, and he became so depressed that even the neighborhood kids knew about it. I mention this because it was something that had never happened before. It was both frightening and confusing: how could you be doing your job one day, performing well, doing everything asked of you (if not more)... and then the next day, be told you no longer work at the company? It defied all understanding. Worse: what if it wasn't just one unlucky individual? If anyone could lose their job at anytime, for literally any reason or no reason... how does anyone build a future? When it became clear that corporations had no loyalty to or concern for their employees--when employees were no longer valued, but considered a "cost" to be reduced--that's when employees (rightly) stopped caring about the companies they worked for. They showed up only to collect a paycheck--nothing more, nothing less. The kids today call it "quiet quitting," I believe--and it's the rational reaction to being disposable.

[@rosieE121]

I'm 77 this year. You must have lived in upper middle class America as a child. I recall that most moms worked too. Grandma took care of kids. Dad had 3 jobs to make ends meet!

[@Fun4GA]

I got all my promotions because I had already been doing the work. Sometimes it took longer to get recognition that I expected, but hard work creates your own good luck.

[@rosieE121]

I am believing that "quiet quitting" was invented by employers just as an excuse to keep wages low. This is the age of profit first for them.

[@eh1702]

“our family lived in the suburbs. Almost without exception, every Dad in the neighborhood went to work in the morning, and almost every Mom was home with the kids” I’m glad you realise that was a unique moment in extremely few countries. Even in your country, it was a bubble of time when privilege dipped down a class or two, to a new class of people - many of whom were production workers behind desks - producing clerical and admin traffic & records - whose only necessary qualifications were literacy and an average IQ. Maybe also numeracy. A lot of people from families with the background you describe, they seem to not realise how exceptional it all was. They still see it as a norm, even a right. I think this belief of a loss of entitlement is the source of reactionary boomer politics and millennial angst.

[@rosieE121]

@@eh1702 I think so too. The higher middle class of the 50’s was NOT the norm. It was because of the consumerism after the war and moving from swords to plowshares. All the economic energy shifted to "modern living". Most every household bought the new appliances, tv's, cars.

[@nickx8411]

I worked 23 years for a great company full of great people doing a great thing… and then the CEO retired. The new leadership came in “cutting and gutting “and got rid of everybody that was tenured and/or expensive. Now the place is a complete cluster and nobody’s happy, but the stock value is up. i’m sure the new CEO, who even fired his own right hand man to replace him with someone cheaper, is happy. And that’s how it works in America now.

[@DamonCassidy]

I am sorry you had to experience that. Makes me sick thinking about. I appreciate you sharing this with us!

[@scottmckinney6328]

Give them the loyalty they deserve.

[@Marwell0709]

I live in UK and work for one company almost 10 years. When I started working it was a great place to work, good wage, good quality of life at workplace. The owner of the company(who was a son of a man that established this fine company) was about to retire. Since he had no heir to pass it to, he decided to hire a new CEO to increase the value of the company in order to sell it. And that's when the place turned into a hellhole. Best folk have been sacked or left the company on their own initiative. We're heavily understaffed. QoL went downhill bad, our sick pay is almost worth nothing, we're short on equipment as well. The only reason I still cling to that place is higher than usual overtime and convenient night shift hours. Once that changes, I'm out. Heh, funny, the place used to be top four in the whole city area.

[@richarddavey5991]

True the stockholder syndrome:).?

[@peppie0521]

I had a dog like that

[@oldschoolcat2110]

I too worked in banking. I felt my soul being sucked dry because I would see how I was enriching the bank and putting people into more debt. My raise one year was 5 cents an hour. At 49, I went back to school and now I work at a job where I feel like I do help people. It’s not perfect but I can look at myself in the mirror.

[@Liz-wz8dh]

I don't mind working. I'm tired of corrupt management and terrible coworkers. I don't really want to work for a corporation that has useless HR department that does nothing for employees anymore either.

[@DavidB.Fischer]

Same. There should be no BS in between just do your job and that’s enough.

[@DamonCassidy]

Absolutely! So glad you mentioned the hr department as well!

[@kevindouglas8166]

Was the Humans are a Resource department ever supposed to do anything for the employees?

[@maryanncrody4867]

Hr is not there for you you need a union

[@Liz-wz8dh]

@@OhioPetra Agreed.

[@squid6236]

I stumbled upon this presentation. I lost a good job in NYC because I took the moral high ground. 4 years later, we are still hurting financially. However, I was able to teach my older children that morals matter. Keep moving forward

[@DamonCassidy]

The lesson I suspect was priceless. I’m sorry to hear about the financial situation and hope that it begins to lessen here soon. I appreciate you sharing a bit of your life with us! I wish you all the best🤍

[@buddyrojek9417]

I left my job as an auditor . The rich are criminals and the politicians protect because of political donations. I am happier driving trucks. At least what I do has a purpose

[@anthonyfaiell3263]

I do not in any way want to belittle your stance. I don't know what the specific issue you were dealing with was, so I can't fully agree with it without knowing. I agree that standing up for ourselves is one of the few ways to hold onto any individuality we might have left in this crazy conforming world. . However, I think it's an important point to make that you financially struggling is a form of "societal punishment" for your behavior. Put simply morality and individuality is not rewarded in modern society. And most living creatures on earth are quite simple. If behavior is rewarded, it is repeated. If it is punished, it is avoided. This is one of the many ways they control the masses.

[@WinstonSmithGPT]

@@anthonyfaiell3263I was pushed out of a high-level job for testifying on behalf of a specific woman who had suffered a specific and serious loss because of a specific incident-a termination based on a combo of age, sex and looks, in my presence. I spent the rest of my life listening to millionaire women executives use “victimhood” they never experienced to lecture me as they elbowed in front of me to snag every opportunity. Today there is no pride, no self respect, no ethics, at any level of any organization. Me me me me me.

[@soldier22881]

you did the right thing. those who follow the path of good, those are the people i will fight for. i will make sure your good deeds do not go unrewarded

[@GLADIATOR-tz7yt]

It's fascinating to see how history repeats itself, especially when it comes to economic downturns and labor issues

[@MichaelAlex-bt1pn]

yet, nothing is being done differently to break the cycle because inflation is a wealth transfer mechanism, a lot of people would be in trouble because they rely on the value of assets to keep going up

[@MaxWell-pp9zs]

good point, focusing on what we can control now is essential. I started putting money into ETF's and bonds only after I had spare funds to invest. But given my age and time constraints I always had to question if sticking with that would be the best strategy. It felt like diversification was limiting my assets growth instead of managing risk. I decided to invest time in research and adopted an alternative strategy that has helped me reach $4 million return.

[@MichaelJaw-hv9uu]

It’s worth noting that luck often plays a significant role in investing, sometimes even more than the resources involved. without it, its challenging to succeed. universal basic income could have been in place, there wouldn't have been a global inflation.

[@DirtyDog995]

@@MichaelJaw-hv9uu And who would be paying for this UBI? Remember _'socialism is great till you run out of other peoples money'_

[@kathymc234]

​@@MichaelJaw-hv9uu You simple? You give everyone $1,500 per month. Suddenly housing goes up. Food prices go up. Your haircut goes up. Did you not study "Supply and Demand" anywhere? You are thinking exactly like the M@rxists want you to think. Please stop being controlled. 🐑🐑🐑

[@leondonald]

I am 53 and retired at 50. 1 thing I did do to retire early was to get out of the 401K and IRA programs. Bought rental real-estate and I am now a Limited Partner in about 1500+ units from collabrative efforts in the fund my estate planner has me invested in. I do not work.

[@DavidRiggs-dc7jk]

I only contribute 5% to get full company match, that’s it. The 401K plan is designed for you to work until you are about dead. Also, the government does not have their hands on it yet either.

[@HarrietBemish]

My wife and I live off of our 401K. We don't work. I recommend highly to everyone to build your 401K or Roth IRA's as an alternate revenue stream in retirement to your Social Security. An observation on 401K's is when it gets over 300K it starts to accelerate. When you get over 500K it can really accelerate as the stock market grows.

[@EllenAbrex]

If I may ask, as in withdrew all of the money from the 401K and IRA programs? If so, what was your strategy behind that decision? Thank you.

[@HarrietBemish]

Personally, I've stuck with Vivian Jean Wilhelm and her performance has been consistently impressive. You can confirm her basic info on the internet, she's quite known in her field with over 15yrs of experience.

[@EllenAbrex]

I just looked her up on the web and I would say she really has an impressive background in investing. I will write her an email shortly.

[@jimmymac2292]

Between inflation and inflammation, I dont really feel good about getting out of bed each morning

[@neonnoir9692]

Intermittent fast, it'll help with both.

[@kardrek2461]

GET NEOSPORIN

[@DamonCassidy]

Been one of my favorite comments I have read. Made me laugh so hard

[@DamonCassidy]

Cracked me up!!!

[@dialecticalmonist3405]

Well, you wanted to destroy energy, so this is the result.

[@Golfing422]

I’ve lost loyalty to my government. I couldn’t imagine risking my life in a war for people who’d outsource my job if it put a penny in their pocket. We aren’t buds any longer. Loyalty is a two way street.

[@TheFertileOne]

Sad thing is, has it ever been about loyalty to our union? (As if we could be united?). Hasn't it always been about who is putting what buck in whose pocket? War creates billions for people who love to feel and behave as entitled!

[@ottoandersson2216]

Come on bud, Israel and Ukraine need you to enlist

[@lagringa7518]

@@ottoandersson2216 Which I guess is way they're letting in all the immigrants, they think that they'll be the cannon fodder for the rich now, because American kids have finally caught on to the grift.

[@squirelova1815]

No problem...since the Counterfeit Billionaire run "government" NEVER EVER had ANY Loyalty to you or anyone else but their own Pockets. Fact.

[@OurFreeSociety]

Why you ever worshiped the mafia gov't is beyond me. Do you not know that we are slaves to them & they control us? Do you not know that the evils control them & use them as a weapon to control the slaves? That's why yo know that every mafia gov't worldwide who participated in the scamdemic was paid off. Same with the whitecoats It sounds like you like being a slave. Risking your life in a war for the evils? Do you actually think that any war is an organic one? If you want to learn the Truth about what's going on, go to my non YT video platform. YT deletes the Truth. In fact, I watched a fairly good video last night on a new term I've never heard of before which will destroy capitalism. We are almost 100% communist now. I'll try to upload that soon. You can't find a job & I can't find freelancers. The evils are stopping us from connecting. Again, total destruction of life on earth.

[@NoorAgafia]

Here in the Netherlands during the 80ties, no one I knew had a executive position. Not family, friends or neighbors. In those days, nearly any job payed enough to buy a decent home, support your family with a single income, go on vacation to France, buy everything the kids needed, and drive a reliable Volvo (240) that could literally drive you 4 times to the moon and back. These men were no CEO's. They were mailmen. Security guards. Elementary teachers. Mechanics, etc. When our country joined the EU, and our currency changed to the Euro, that's when everything changed. These days only 3% of people, with a middle income of 3.4k a month = university degree, can buy a home on their own. If you wish to live, both parents need to work and the costs are so high, most people I know these days cannot save anything. People work, simply to exist. 3% pay increase a year. That's it. That old mentality of: If you work hard, you can improve your life

[@cyc7lops]

Well that was the plan with the EU. Now the plan is to turn everyone into slaves.

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

Belgium here. Hi there, neighbour to the North. Wouldn't know if the introduction of the Euro changed much, as I've only joined the workforce in the mid 2000's. But my granddad bought a farm off his wages as a coal miner and later factory worker, while grandma stayed at home, took care of the animals and worked the field. And together they raised 7 children. Try to do that off a single worker's income these days. And if you look at the lower wage jobs, it's quite understandable that a lot of people would rather collect unemployment than go work those jobs. Who wants to give up 38h of their free time (not including commute time) to earn maybe €200 more a month? And that is IF they earn more at all, because for some people what little extra they make is eaten up by the extra costs associated with working: gas and car maintenance, or bus/train fare, ... And if you got kids and need to pay for daycare, you may even be losing hundreds of euros a month for the privilege of being bored in somebody elses building, instead of your own house. Yikes!

[@CJScrol]

It appears to be a global problem, not specific to any developed country. Your description of the Netherlands echos the US. My cousin in Norway describes the same situation. It seems that at the very least, housing is manipulated through financial institutions through breaking up & profiting from mortgages. Very opaque & impossible for average workers to understand.

[@joeyseeds2039]

Hello neighbors of the world, USA Guy here ... about to hit 35 years in the workforce in a few weeks ... I used to smile, even if I didn't like the Job, I had money, a decent car, rent and child care paid and yes I used to take a vacation sometimes 2 a year ... I went out and had Fun Adventures. Well ... I haven't had a vacation since 2017 ... I survived the 2007/2008 mortgage meltdown almost hitting homeless, I then worked hard and got new jobs and had a good run. I call this ... post covid world. Ya see now, I fear homelessness again ... I have so much stress trying to keep everything together that I'm falling apart. I work 7days a week a very mentally and physically stressful Jobs ( 3 of them) 9 to 11 shifts a week ... I joke withbco workers I'll have time off work after a heart attack. But fear ... it's no Joke ... seeing this coming I made a leap and took a Risk with the wrong people at the wrong time and place and lost Everything. So now ... I want to try something else ... but sadly, I don't wven have enough money to run away ... cause if I did. I would !

[@IamMagPie]

Hoi, hoi Nederland. Noorwegen hier. I've lived and worked in the Netherlands. I've got a master's degree from the University (six years + three years og highschool before that). Meaning I lost income for nine years before entering the work force with a big study loan. Sacreficed all for my work - health, family, relationships. Only to see the bosses being changed all the time, and never receiving a wage increase for what I did for the previous boss. I've worked for over 20 years now, and on my 8th boss (seven of these bosses were female and had to be replaced beause they were incompetent). Approaching 50 years of age, and still can't afford buying my own apartment in Oslo because the prices are so high. My realwage (wage adjusted for inflation) is not much higher than 10 years ago. Poleticians ruined the economy with too low interest rates for too long, rescue packages for "too big too fail" and stimulus during Corona. Also, I think immigration is expensive (half the city are new citizens living of welfare from the taxes I pay and get free housing pushing up the real estate market).

[@AbeStephan]

It's not that people don't want to work anymore . We The People are tired of employers treating their workers like 💩 .

[@starspaceschool587]

How exactly are these workers supposed to survive if they never work? Government handouts taken by force from those who do work. As for being treated like crap how many employees showed there “day in the life of x” that included less than an hr of work a day?

[@AbeStephan]

@@starspaceschool587 wah wah wah you wuss

[@starspaceschool587]

@@AbeStephan say that to the people who are to pathetic to get a job.

[@ericholland8179]

Welcome to real world. That’s just the way it is. Nobody owes you anything! Get off your ass an go to work!

[@lilpinkbubbles6592]

What I have found is that as 1 employee you work the job of 3 but get paid the salary of .5.

[@jmanke6057]

More like 4 but money doesn’t seem to have same value as everything cost more

[@CherylAnnRose]

Truth

[@jmanke6057]

Cool if you meant x5 not as god if meant .5 like 1/2?

[@fomori2]

"What I have found is that as 1 employee you work the job of 3 but get paid the salary of .5."-- Yet you keep doing it. If you let yourself be exploited, then people are going to exploit you. Im sure you will make excuses as to why you cant quit and better your situation, because being a victim is infinitely easier than standing up for yourself.

[@amonra3725]

Yep. I used to work a night shift. I was alone all night and had to spend the entire time working frantically just to get everything done before I left in the morning....if I wasn't done on time I was expected to stay till I was done....but no pay. I was the nurse, technician, cleaner, launderer, dog walker, everything. It was horrible.

[@PianoMan-hx3ev]

In 2020, corporations showed the workers their true colors

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

They already did that back over 130 tears ago during the Gilded era.

[@TrevorHamberger]

No actually they bought up the public education system in America back in the 1960s. And ever since then our people have been labeled as human resources only to be exploited. So know you're like 60 years behind they told you that you were a useless human resource only here to be exploited back in the 1960s

[@Mrfinch9999]

They always did, most people just have a crab bucket mentality. So they always focus on pushing others down instead of uniting to make it better.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

@@KK-sv7pc 2008 was mine.

[@IaintTheHerb]

They did that when they pushed to change the laws in 1989, to get the H1B worker you were forced to train before they laid you off.

[@rmar1957]

I left a good tech job with a fortune 500 & went back to cleaning houses. My job satisfaction increased immensely. Stress level lowered. 30 hours a week was all i needed to keep fed, keep bills paid, & do things. And i got exercise.

[@abowling5759]

Good choice! Are you self-employed?

[@qjtvaddict]

????

[@beach2787]

Need more context to your interesting story.

[@timothysaye5535]

And, half your income did not go the state or the IRS!

[@rmar1957]

@@abowling5759 retired now. Raising goats & pigs.

[@kenrussell1093]

Because of the very things you are talking about, I discovered your channel. My story is too long to write here, but I am a 70 year old nurse who was the target of a "silent firing" coup. That didn't work as I refused to quit, but then I was injured on the job, and now I am unable to work. Workmans' comp is stalling and dragging their feet, and so now I have to depend on $2250/month in social security to pay rent, phone, insurance, food, gas, and utilities. I had to let You Tube Premium go, and because of this, I wasn't receiving the things on my usual preferences. And that is how I discovered this video, and I am glad I did.

[@wesleyfirkin6359]

If you make less than $80K annual (adjust for your specific zipcode), you are basically just above poverty. How many people are making $80K+? Its not most people. Most people are making $30-50K and are dirt poor.

[@barqu1636]

I remember Obama telling us that $50,000 a year was middle class wages. I also remember that, before his revision, $100 ,000 was middle class wages.

[@tomast9034]

with those 80k annualy you are still in the 1% of top earners in the world lol ...statistics is nice thing :D

[@Twotone-ld1fb]

Exactly i think part of the issue is we have a very small number of people making billions and when they try to calculate the average annual salaries of people they need to cut out the top 1% first.

[@Twotone-ld1fb]

@@tomast9034 Yes, and relevance is a nice thing as well. Many other places in the world things dont cost as much or are provided by the government (sure taxes are higher though). One issue with our economy is we moved all manufacturing over seas.

[@criticRN]

It’s the wage gap between workers and upper management too. CEOs make millions and workers make very little.

[@rnp1785]

Cost you more money to go to work and stay home. Can you imagine paying $1200 a month just for two kids in daycare!!! WTF!!!

[@Mr.Dobalina113]

$1,200 would be an incredible cost savings over the reality of the situation. So no, I can’t imagine that but for entirely different reasons.

[@timothysaye5535]

no, start your own business, be your own boss, work as hard as you want, or as easy as you want! Corporations will never value their employees, sadly.

[@drmidnight680-kz2le]

​@@timothysaye5535employees will never value the corporations sadly 😢

[@OldBastard-dj6er]

@@timothysaye5535 oh yeah " be your own boss, work as hard as you want, or as easy as you want" . . . . . 🙄keeping your new business going you need to work harder and the work will not be easy . . .. WTF are you even talking about ? you clearly are not your own BOSS 😒

[@cjay2]

Your wife should be raising them. Day-care is state-controlled.

[@bryanwoodcock3011]

I applaud you: “money isn’t worth selling my soul.” Well done. Keep going the right way.

[@Ilovemom6382]

Greed and profits are destroying our country. This is a very powerful video you created. Good job.

[@DamonCassidy]

Absolutely right! So glad it provided value! Thank you for reaching out and I hope all is well!

[@IchigoGyuunyu]

I think I've lost any sense of loyalty to family, country, friends, and job. Been stabbed in the back, marginalized, ignored, and stiffed way too many times. Now my goals are to work as little as possible and only spend on myself. That's a fraction of what I could be earning if I had anyone else to care about beside my dog.

[@toast47624]

Boy that resonates with me.

[@MindBodySoulOk]

​@@toast47624It resonates with many. The weird part is it resonates with young people who haven't even put in the time yet. At 60 years old I sold everything and moved on a boat. Much happier. My last company didn't give two shts about any of their employees. My boss was a complete asshole, they know it and have lost some good people because of it. They couldn't give a sht.

[@gimpee8113]

remind me of a man(Joseph) i read in the bible. He was almost killed by his brother n later sold as slave. Long story short later he become prime minister of Egypt. Sometime he got to met his brothers who need help, he forgive them. Story like tat motivate me that God nv give up on me.

[@AB-wf8ek]

​@@gimpee8113 Life isn't always a fairytale

[@michaelj.beglinjr.2804]

@@gimpee8113 ---Parables are great, when you're five years old.

[@guillotineblade999]

1. 98% Ghost jobs 2. 2% actual jobs: wants master's degree/PhD level education. Must do your job, the janitors job, be a professionals and the CEO assistant, the warehouse guy, personal mechanic, construction worker, rocket scientist and if necessary professional assassin. All at the same time, under one job position. Pay rate $14.50/hour. 😂😂😂 yeah...

[@DamonCassidy]

Hahaha this cracked me up!! I appreciate you sharing that!

[@HeadStronger-HS]

This is pretty accurate

[@WillSmirk]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LWRC]

Why sweat it homeboy - come to Kalifornia and be a burger flipper and you'll get $20.00/hr!!! That's an instant 37.93% increase in your wage!!!😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍

[@grocerygoat06]

You also forgot that you must be on call 24/7, be vaccinated and 100 times boosted against Covid 19, work with no vacation time or health insurance benefits, be able to multitask better than a circus juggler, and be a leader and who is better than an Orchestral Director.

[@freddaniali]

We aren't living in the highest decade of inflation in American history; however, we are living in the most lame and stupid one.

[@DamonCassidy]

Haha certainly some truths in that statement

[@Drifter-tw4kt]

100 percent true

[@qwerty90615]

Stupidity we see is a manifestation of bad thinking of previous times. Seeing the stupidly is good, some may correct the bad thinking. But, will we? For example, the monetary collapse we are seeing unfold is due to poor decisions that were advantageous in the short term. It does no good to attack a class of people who had individuals (long dead) who made such decisions, but that is what we'll do.

[@Novusod]

This is actually the worst inflation crisis in American history. In previous inflationary events wages went up with the cost of living. Current era inflation only cost of living is going up. Wages are mostly stagnant. Cost of rent, food, gas goes up. Salary stays the same. Over night the middle class became poor and the poor were driven to utter destitution and homelessness.

[@aluisious]

@@qwerty90615 While we are criticizing things, calling people "individuals" is stupid.

[@carlsapartments8931]

my parents got married in 53 had ONE income and house a car and a baby. I the 60's had ONE income, bought a bigger house, 2 more cars, 3 more babies, did a total house renovation inside and out.... ALL ON DADS PAYCHECK... in the 70's mom had to get a job, everything slowly started going South, 30 years later they died poor in 2000/2006 still working at 72 yrs old! Their 4 children born btw 1953-1963 have done worse than them so far.

[@zenosgrasshopper]

That's not an unusual story. Many people in the younger generations like to blame Baby Boomers, but the fact is that all generations--Boomers included--are not doing well. The garbage economy is sucking everyone's bank accounts and savings dry.

[@gGre617]

I’ve worked in banking for 41 yrs. Full time. I’m done! I just don’t want to do this anymore. I’m tired of working shorthanded and having to constantly train new staff. Your comment about an 11cent per hour raise is absolutely true.

[@PinoSantilli-hp5qq]

Banking is a shitty job.. u should do something else...

[@lesp315]

@@PinoSantilli-hp5qq Yes, poor cement in construction like I did in the first year of my illustrious carrier. You people are so funny.

[@livelywombat]

The fact that we aren't crashing tells me that we are artificially being held up. Inflation is out of hand, property cost is outrageous and interest rates are soaring. By all rights we should be seeing the second great depression.

[@amyself6678]

By definition costs rise to meet available spending. If incomes double then goods and services and land costs must double. It's not inflation, it's economics. Yes this is hard to believe but there will ALWAYS be a costly half of economy we whine about. You cant have all things being cheap, the people decide to spend more on X like housing and soon house area DOUBLES as it has since 1970, and car age cuts by half so we buy cars more often.... In US it's health care and education mostly, and EU it's retail goods and housing. . .. if a person skipped restaurants and vacations and booze and couple only had 1 car then like their parents they could save, honest fact is we've become 20% more spoiled so EAT UP the savings our parents didn't eat up. Harsh fact, we could save and build wealth but that 20% and idiocy. As kid I never had soda pop, too costly, effing lemonade till 18.... I have no solution but we should mostly be GRATEFUL this beats the past. Best wishes, I'm half an idiot.

[@livelywombat]

@@amyself6678 inflation can ONLY be created by one entity and that is governments. No other entity in the entire world can create inflation because no one else can create money. Right now the US is printing money like crazy and spending it like its pocket change. That is what is causing EVERYTHING to go up in cost. This has nothing to do with available spending and everything to do with leadership that doesn't care about our future and only sees the now.

[@hexadecimal5236]

We are in a 2nd great depression, technology is masking it. They subsidize food, electric, water, ect, how they put a boot on your neck is they don't allow tiny homes or container homes to be imported from China or India. A container home from China costs $5,000-10,000 with everything, just need electric and water hookups. They're federally illegal tho in the US and EU. They do that because they're protecting the banks and billionaire developers.

[@mrscottygreenwood]

It’s coming,they’ve been staving it off but by the end of summer,right about the time the real estate bubble pops

[@biff3917]

@@amyself6678 /sigh and why did income HAVE to double... because our gov printed up 35 trillion dollars it doesn't have that's the economics of it that caused inflation. Smells awfully jewy there pal. We can have nice things and we can have everything being cheap.

[@MilePost106]

I’m a baby boomer and grew up in the best times. We had tons of jobs all mostly small or big business, once the government allowed big corporations in and gobbled up everything the jobs disappeared fast closing up everything. I live in a town of 7500 and we had a lot of industrial and small business’s and no fast food joints. Once that door opened everything disappeared including the small mom and pop business’s. Now we have big Walmart and fast food on every corner. It will never be the same, the good days are gone!

[@JulieTobin-Ruszczyk]

I'm a boomer also and I realize it all goes in a circle and so will the economy

[@lisab.1595]

I'm also a boomer, thank goodness!! We grew up in the best of times. Was it perfect? No, of course not, but compare it to this generation, it was utopia. I laughed when you mentioned Walmart and fast foods. They're all around me now. I don't go there, I find them rather depressing.

[@jimveybe7689]

People do not not want to know the damage Wal-Mart has done to all the towns around those stores.

[@toffeecrisp2146]

I agree with this and I'm from the UK. Not a boomer though. But we had a nation of shop owners here. Small businesses dominated the economy and that had a lot of pro's. Small businesses were something that people felt invested in, in a way working for giant multinational doesn't. Small businesses tended to benefit local economies, supported broader local economic networks and employed local people. Product quality was better as the consequences of bad products or services, was felt close to home. All of that changed when giant multinational corporations came along. Since then, everything has got worse.

[@cryptodude_btc]

You probably think taxation isn't theft still too.

[@davidfruechting7771]

Damon, I am 69 years old, and I agree with everything you said here. EVERYTHING. I have failed badly in this system because of the very reasons you quit your job. I respect you, greatly.

[@IkeSpeaksUp]

I quit my job as a data analyst last April, it's been 12 months. I quit because they called me to the office even though I'd been fully remote for three years. I told them I received 10/10 reviews from 3 different managers I worked with. They didn't care. They wanted me in the office so they could control my time and optimize my work flows to produce even more! That's the truth! I quit because I didn't want to be exploited tbh. I was already doing the job of three people.

[@ken85225]

sounds like the right move 100%!

[@poohbeartube]

Let me guess, some tyrant/control freak was peter principled into a position over you. Regardless, good move on your part.

[@motorcitymadman146]

The next person will be trained to do the job of 4 people for 2 dollars less per hour. They just want to fill the seat they don't care if your good or stay

[@hexadecimal5236]

I literally just quit a job where they tried to do the same. They simply changed the job requirement and said the job now requires me to be in the office. I said no, unless they can show me an area where I am failing to do my job properly they could not, required me to do it anyway and then just fired me without cause bc FL is a Right to Fire state. They also stole my last two weeks pay, they use a payroll company and the payroll company said they simply didn't receive the payment for pay. So they actually fired me two weeks before they fired me and let me work two weeks for free before turning off all my employee software and logins. They'll get away with it too because the job protections in FL are nonexistent.

[@poohbeartube]

@@hexadecimal5236 Sorry to hear about your plight. You can do what I did and have the Wage and Earnings division of the US Dept. of Labor sue for the unpaid wages. FL has some particular problems but what you described is nationwide due to at-will employment. At-will employment means that an employer can fire an employee for any reason (if it's not illegal), or no reason, with no warning, and without having to establish just cause. About 74% of U.S. workers are considered at-will employees.

[@michaeldalton8374]

After 10 years of self employment, I rejoined the workforce to receive one dollar less per hour than I made in 2013, doing the same type of work.

[@koyotekola6916]

If you were self employed, you didn't hafe to rejoin. You never left.

[@WilliamIraWoodIV]

Why would you do that?

[@pinesandtraplines]

​@@WilliamIraWoodIV Being an employee can offer more stable income. Being self-employed comes with risks.

[@norwegianblue2017]

@@pinesandtraplines True, but your average employee is actually much worse off than ten years ago in terms of purchasing power and disposable income. Especially these last four years under that muppet in the White House who has been doing his level best to drive up inflation and give money away overseas.

[@Matok1]

@@pinesandtraplines Being employed is the illusion of stability, they can show you the door any time they wish and you have no say.

[@nicholasskeels5428]

Money is fake but your problems are real

[@normbograham]

Money is fake, but if there is a $100 bill on the sidewalk, someone is going to pick it up.

[@stevep756]

The global money machine is on a roll to price us right off the map.

[@Adnancorner]

@@normbograham Ok weasel, he meant the fictitious value not actual paper.

[@aspensulphate]

Fake money is one of the problems.

[@nicholasskeels5428]

@@aspensulphate yes sir

[@rochellemcdonald9646]

I have a friend who is coming up on 30, and I can feel his frustration. He works a service job and he feels he cannot do anything right to satisfy his employer. Years ago, a friend of mine worked in a financial institution. There were 5 people in his department. It was cut to three. Then, two left, and he was fired for not being able to "keep up" (with the workload of 5 people).

[@brokenpixels263]

I remember at unskilled jobs that were often times short staffed, sometimes you would have employees willing and able to do the work of two people (sometimes doing so for months), but would not get the pay of two people. Yet as soon as they found someone else to hire, they would hire them. Inevitability, the new hire would be a worse worker and end up leaving or being fired. The employer refused to pay the good worker who was hustling for months more and it always seemed braindead to me. I can only assume it was ego or stupidity. I have learned during my working life, that hard work and being a good worker will get you no where. Its all about how much the company/society values what you are doing. Doesnt even seem to make a difference if what you are doing is essential to the company for them to operate.

[@davestewart2067]

Wow. Sounds just like Home Depot and Lowes. They don’t appreciate workers that actually show up on time and know something about construction. They’re all about rainbows and “diversity” now.

[@davestewart2067]

Sounds like home depot and Lowe’s. Both are terrible.

[@braixeninfection6312]

I know. I hate how much work one person is expected to do. But how little respect and pay they get in return. Everyone is replaceable. That's why you get employees who both do not care or respect you back. Jobs are meaningless in terms of actually progressing and making it a career. No one cares anymore for the lowly employee.

[@jmanke6057]

Quality falls in current environment unfortunately

[@hexadecimal5236]

Work Hard, Boss gets a raise.

[@kellymoses8566]

I've been treated like garbage by every company I've ever worked for.

[@amonra3725]

that's pretty much been my experience too. shit jobs, low pay and treated like dirt.

[@8356-4]

It only gets worse during a true recession.

[@LuminescentShine]

The temps at my job and me getting annoyed with the company

[@bmoshareholderappleshareho855]

Maybe the solution is to run your business. Unfortunately, most people are not in a position to do that.

[@lmtada]

You should never have that feeling. What have you contributed to these businesses? What have you done to better your boss? It’s not about you,

[@ianupchurch1315]

When I was a gas station cashier, I had to do managerial duties, as well as lead duties without it being reflected in my title or pay. Literally. I had to put up entire deliveries, scan them in, audit tobacco and alcohol, train new employees, be the de-facto night manager for customer complaints, as well as both filing police reports and manning the security system to burn video evidence for the investigations. On paper, my only responsibilities were manning the register, cleaning the store, and keeping the coolers and fountain drinks stocked. So one of my co-workers, who was great friends with the managers(whom only worked first shift ever) got promoted within months, and I got fired when I closed the store because my overnight never showed up and I could no longer keep working with my broken ribs. This was in a high crime area, where they had me working alone 95% of the time, during hours when I could handle more than a thousand people per night depending on the local goings-on. BY. MY. SELF. No security, no co-workers, nothing. Why should I bother doing anything other than underachieving as hard as I can?

[@wekky420ranarr]

This is so fucking brutal, sorry that you had to experience that. Are you doing better?

[@sinistar3198]

Just sue for wrongful termination. If you did everything in the manual, just sue for wrongful termination. At the very least, your former friends will lose the business. I think you deserve that closure.

[@annellacannella5674]

@@sinistar3198if you work in at at will state you will never win a wrongful termination suite.

[@randibass7558]

You will be listing all what you did in yr resume. You sound very responsible and intelligent. I would hire you immediately!!

[@firstinthedance]

@@sinistar3198 The problem with that is that low wage workers usually can't afford an attorney so terrible employers tend to get away with abusing their employees for years, if not forever. Employees usually just find another job. A friend of mine actually worked for a restaurant that didn't pay their servers ANYTHING. They ONLY made their tips. That is illegal. In my state, servers must be paid a cash wage of $5.26/hr. and if they don't make enough in tips to reach the regular minimum wage of $15.13/hr., the employer is supposed to pay the difference. LOTS of them don't - but their employees can't afford to fight legal battles, so they usually just put up with it until they can find a better job.

[@GOD1STALLTHETIME]

Thanks!

[@DamonCassidy]

I am so glad this was able to provide value! Thank you so much for your incredible generosity! I hope you’re doing well

[@norrisheckwine7439]

Lets see, I can work the majority of my life away like my father and grandfather. And if I'm lucky, the companies won't throw me to the curb for someone or country that will work for less. And if everything goes well, I can expect a retirement physically broken and struggling to make ends meet. And someone thinks this makes sense?

[@GhostSal]

You basically described my life in one paragraph.

[@AnonymousPerson0182]

Yep.

[@mcrow9599]

companies will definitely throw you to the curb stay out of debt and live below your earnings

[@DamonCassidy]

When I worked at the bank it was so sad to see what has happened to people especially when it came to those preparing to retire with all that has happened. Really shows how none of this is illusionary pot of gold is just guaranteed. Thank you for reaching out.

[@DamonCassidy]

Very important!

[@matthewronsson]

My wife worked at a major corporate retailer that boasted about their paying a "living wage". What they didn't advertise that they then expected one employee to do what 2-3 others used to do.

[@anxylum]

Yep. And then you work there a few months, they fire more people, and you get their responsibilities too. 😐

[@maxsoregon]

PLUS Corp's paying LOW enough wages, that their employee's qualify for SNAP, etc.. purposely using government funds, to effectively almost support that company's purposeful policies.. think WALMART here in Oregon & other states?

[@24goodbuddy]

​@@maxsoregonEXACTLY. Corporate welfare. Govt subsidizing employees, so corporations make more profits.

[@ArtWithMari]

COUGHHOBBY LOBBYCOUGH

[@misscoutts6193]

Living wage means just that it just enough to live on.

[@kellymoses8566]

One of the big issues is all the Harvard MBA types have outright contempt for labor and manufacturing. Just look at how they destroyed Boeing.

[@Phillip-cw9xn]

The engineers no longer run building the jets. The penny counters rule the destruction.

[@picklerix6162]

DEI is also destroying large companies. Boeing requires all new employees to write a DEI statement when they are hired.

[@ricky4214]

@@Phillip-cw9xn yah its true, im from renton and my family is a boeing family, my uncle who was an engineer for boeing since the early 90s finally retired because his they literally stopped taking his work in to consideration, last year i asked him if there were any planes he'd be concerned about and he started talking about the max, this was before the side blew off the one

[@dennisfarris4729]

Generalization cripples the intellect.

[@hiddenname9809]

Harvard graduates are full of contempt for everyone who is not like them. They are elitists.

[@ripshade]

Groowing up in the 80s my father worked in a grocery warehouse and my mother worked in manufacturing. We had a nice home, cars, and a boat. We had money to take weekend trips to the lake and annual vacation trips. We were living a version of the American dream. 40 years later and i see that dream difficult to impossible for a large percentage of Americans. The insiparation to work leaves when all of your income goes into surviving. The goals for the working class have shifted in my life from living a comfortable life with disposable emincome for enjoying life to the goal of simply paying for shelter and food.

[@tonyzinnanti5905]

Outstanding video. I'm 57 years old and a self-employed lawyer; being self-employed for over 30 years. In the late 1970s I had an uncle who was a rock star innovator at IBM. Then, IBM decided to cut labor costs and - despite his allegiance to the corporation, he was let go. He went from a management position with IBM to menial jobs to put food on the table. With the corporate world, you are 100% expendible. There are so many ways of making a decent living and having independence and fulfillment. Just yesterday, we were passing by a former client's house. He did a stretch in the joint for drugs. Then, when he got out, he cleaned himself up and started messing with raising bees. He now has a giant honey production facility with multiple streams of income and he does better than me. The horizons and possibilities are limitless. Open yourself to it youngsters.

[@battlezordfalcon]

Beat it boomer your generation is the reason there are no jobs for the youth, wars being fought left and right, climate change, increased taxes to pay for your state pensions. Soon America will end up like Hiati with the youth declaring war on old people

[@user-is6de8pp7k]

Thank you

[@garnhamr]

ok boomer xD

[@tonyzinnanti5905]

@@garnhamr Lol. Commenting from mom's basement snot nose? "Boomer." What a hoot. Try not to get triggered today foofoo.

[@garnhamr]

@@tonyzinnanti5905 why i outa...

[@heavymetallabrat]

As someone looking for work for 6 months , several hundred applications, and getting very few contacts despite years of experience, this idea nobody wants to work is bs. The correct phrase should be that nobody wants to hire. We need to stop caring about these too big to fail corporations. Let them fail. Instead of bailing out the company, bail out the workers who worked for the company that failed to properly manage its own business. Let the company collapse while investing back into the people who want to work. Allow competition to grow.

[@Imperatia]

If you think about it, all the money given to individual workers gets right back into the economy anyway, so it would be a better choice regardless.

[@race_to_the_bottom7331]

Union yes!

[@hsavage2899]

Yes! Preach.

[@OurFreeSociety]

So, I'll keep talking whether people want to listen or not. You are in the middle of the tearing down of the entire world. This was all pre-planned, just like every other collapse & war. What's the difference between this one & all the others? This one is the last battle. The killing off of the entire worlds' population, save maybe around 1 B. The evils did this on purpose & it had NOTHING to do with the fake V which was all a scam. I stopped watching his video when he insinuated that was the reason & as for them printing money, who do you think prints the money & controls the fiats worldwide & the value of EVERYTHING? The same evils. If you want to learn the Truth about what's going on, go to my non YT video platform. YT deletes the Truth. In fact, I watched a fairly good video last night on a new term I've never heard of before which will destroy capitalism. We are almost 100% communist now. I'll try to upload that soon. You can't find a job & I can't find freelancers. The evils are stopping us from connecting. Again, total destruction of life on earth.

[@dandan6148]

I have hired 7 ppl, since nov(small service company) start at 20hr.. they don't want to learn... I'm tired of throwing away money, waiting for employees to sue me and then getting audited from the gov. You should just be a content creator on ytube like the ppl I've hired say they want to do... when no one is manning the sewage pumps, and the sh¹t starts coming coming up thru your toilets then we might get something done

[@jeffbither4692]

Here’s are my surface level thoughts: roots are gone, love within local communities has been obliterated, work has no larger purpose anymore, jobs demand too much of people, greed in corporate world is pervasive, customers are mean, nasty, and without the manners of the past, and consumerism and materialism have ravaged society. Other than these things, people love their jobs.

[@pneumaticman5927]

You said it.

[@Mrfinch9999]

It is because the nuclear family is dead. No nuclear family means a heartless culture with everyone fighting against each other over uniting.

[@Cust0merSupp0rt]

Oy vey

[@jmanke6057]

Yes media has us judging by unrealistic or bad values look at your peers the battle seems more bearable. Yes it is a battle these days don’t get fooled when you vote think about the direction you want world to go.

[@noeldeal8087]

"Other than these things.... " Lol!!!! ☺

[@user-ss5bj9si5p]

Wow you hit the nail on the head. The government doesn’t care about the little people. Just themselves and the rich!!! I loved your video and I’m now a subscriber!

[@DamonCassidy]

@@user-ss5bj9si5p so glad this provided value! Thank you so much for your support! I hope you’re doing well

[@AsTheCapeBurns]

I’ve walked off lots of jobs because I was asked or expected to do something wrong, unethical or illegal. I’ve only had one long term job that didn’t ask me to compromise my morals.

[@battlezordfalcon]

"The xerox machine broke again, can you go clean up the spilt ink toner" - manager

[@jimthrowaway]

we love it when the company transfers in new dept heads who condescendingly treat 5,10,20 yr veteran seasoned team members as if it's *their* first day on the job, even though it's the other way around, the new supervisor can't find the bathroom... the company hopelessly obliviously clueless, continues to rotate mid-mgmt supv's in an effort to figure out why one after another workers silently give notices of resignation.. they company actually thinks the last employee left disgruntled over scarce & expensive parking issues, exclusively...sure. ....talk about "the gangster who couldn't shoot straight"... it helps when one's eyes are OPEN.....

[@111street]

exactly, sin, evil, the devils influence on society and that destroys mans Souls to fall into Satsns hand whose end is destruction..Society rejects God..and wonders why society collapses...You see it everywhere..Christians, conservatives freedom is criminalized...Everything is based on deception, evil, hatred, pride, corruption..."Society thinks we dont need God! We can create something better without God"

[@jaydenp4975]

Hope you got some legal advice and sued

[@drsuzuki6506]

As a Boomer I can tell you that the problem is corporate greed. Period. You should add the fact of how much more the CEO makes now then in the past.

[@robertlindey2538]

"Geckonomics"

[@pl6935]

It's called human greed period. People that are rich, want more. People that are poor or middle class, want more.

[@johnbrowning8785]

Exhorbitant executive salaries have been a thing for about 40 years.

[@turnkeydirect]

It couldn’t be that we allowed our entire economy to be artificially shutdown for 2 years, for what was essentially the flu. Can’t be that both political parties prioritize Israel and Ukraine over us, and send hundreds of billions of dollars to them every couple of months without opposition. Nah, it’s those CEOs. That’s a real Boomer take.

[@theresas.3109]

It's government intervention that cause all the problem. It's not corporate greed. This is the leftists excuse to tax and spend. We pay for this insanity.

[@jinh817]

And it doesn’t make anything better when corporations let you know you’re replaceable, and you’re watching your colleagues (who have worked hard and have been loyal) get laid off so they can send the job overseas (despite record profits).

[@irrealislife]

That’s why we need unions to take the additional profits in increased wages and benefits. If you earn your company enough money, they’ll use it to “invest” in a new, cheaper workforce

[@1685Violin]

Or be replaced with foreign workers if they can't outsource.

[@marthaking6779]

Thanks for your observations, including the personal experience. Good stuff. Much appreciate.

[@8356-4]

Corporate greed, government corruption, and stock market is number one problem. The government needs to stop bailing corporations out. Also, people do not live on nothing. When the money runs out, no government assistance, parents money, inheritance is gone, no more credit left, etc., people will need to work and they will.

[@MDAdams72668]

Actually, the way the system is set up single mothers in my state can make 60k+ per year if they do NOT WORK more than a few hrs a week at under $10/hr A fully trained welder is lucky to pull that after taxes

[@8356-4]

@@MDAdams72668 So please...what are you saying....hard work gets you nowhere....I am leaving the US....I raised and born here....leaving!!!

[@heart_on_sleeve]

Red Flags: "We are like a family here" . Also being hired to do a relatively simple (low paying) desk job & they spend a lot of time having meetings & asking about your personal life in those meetings. It is none of your business if I am married, what I like to do on the weekends, do I have kids or cats or dogs. I am there to do a desk job, let me do it!! I also do not need or want to share with a company where I want to be in 5 years!! Just let me do the job you hired me to do!! So tired of the game's companies play.

[@kkay3784]

Oh, yeah! I finally realized that maybe the boss didn't treat his family so good.

[@hexadecimal5236]

Yeah, lots of personal questions, what I do is just lie. I tell some I'm straight, others I'm gay, others I'm asexual, or Trans, or a furry, any question anyone asks I make up a different story, I even tell different people different names, every story has the same outcome but different details as to how it happened. No one knows the Truth and they never will.

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

Depends on the context, really. I don't see anything wrong with getting to know your colleagues. Yes, we're there to do a job, but we're also social animals, we suffer in isolation. Yes, even us introverts need _some_ form of social contact, albeit less than your average person. These are the people you spend most of your day with. Do you really want to spend the majority of your life being the anti-social loner in a group of strangers? It's different if it's your boss, or other management, and you notice their interest is insincere, in order to present themselves as likeable. Or as a deceptive way to glean some information, like they're asking these sorts of questions to profile you. And that "where do you see yourself in 5 years" question is the silliest thing ever. It might have made sense once, when people would have entire careers at a single employer. And even then, the only acceptable answer is something that demonstrates your ambition, while not threatening the position of the person who asks (so "in your chair" is out of the question, even if it's true). And what if I don't have ambitions beyond what I currently do, and do well? Or what if I like change, and have no clue what I'll be interested in 5 years from now? What am I? Russia, with their 5 year plans? So far I've had just one single job where I spent more than 5 years with the same company. So who cares where I see myself 5 years down the line? Odds are I will be elsewhere by then.

[@markcrisp07]

"No clock watchers wanted..." = work overtime and smile " KPI's" = Better get us so much business or you are gone

[@johnnamaravelis4093]

Precisely because people change jobs quickly is the reason the 5 yr question is asked. It’s expensive to find, hire & train a new employee. This question, if answered honestly, along with your employment history tells an employer your intention to remain long term IF the employer provides the income, benefits, hours & opportunities promised, and if the employee is motivated to learn and grow with the company. If you’re going to be looking elsewhere immediately and lying at the interview you’re not worth an employers time or money. Maybe instead of demeaning the employer who provide your income you should look in the mirror.

[@lukeyznaga7627]

thats ONE...one of the problems of modern jobs. No matter what work you do, there is a high percentage of HUGE PRODUCTIVITY demanded from you at your job. You don't get paid more if you work harder or produce more. At some stores or places like amazon or HOME DEPOT, THE TURNover is huge. They don't pay you a fixed salary. ITS COMPLETELY based on your production. If you meet the goals, you keep your job and make money. Sometimes, you can make a lot of money. MACY's does the same thing. YOu have to meet the quotas. But if you slow down EVEN AFTER BEING there 2 years and getting a promotion, you will be let go, because your productivity is down. THAT IS NOT A JOB. That is a slave labor camp with minor pay and benefits.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

they shoot horses dont they.....

[@proudhavenot]

Greed is a mental illness and it's ruining everything in the world, not just in the U.S. We need to call it out as such and address it, if we don't then it will continue to grow and ruin the majority of everyone's lives. It's a pattern that needs to be addressed. Great video. This topic needs more attention, break it down into different levels, education, medical, food, debt, family life, relationships, etc. We are all going to sink in this hole if we don't start calling it out.

[@dforrest4503]

Great video! I was a public school teacher for 29 years, and the last few were pretty unpleasant. In the end I was teaching 6 classes as compared to 4 for most of my career. We had less time to plan, and fewer resources for students. The district wanted to appease parents and taxpayers in the short-term, instead of making difficult choices that would result in a better education and preparation for the students. So, I retired as early as I could - being frugal helped that! Now I teach part-time at a private school. It pays a lot less, but I believe in the way both students and teachers are treated and how the students are prepared for their future. So, there is hope! I’m still a huge supporter of public education, but not a fan of where things are right now.

[@gregeoryl]

I especially agree on corporations squeezing everything they can out of companies. I see so much lean, and zero reinvestment. We are running our factories into the ground, with nothing left, for the next generatio.. It is too expensive to take the time to grease a bearing. Leave it for the next guy, I am moving on.

[@timewa851]

yeah it's kinda like that. why waste 44 cents on grease when the train can derail & then someone can really make good $ cleaning up & replacing it all?

[@TimothyNeid]

I work parttime(by my choice), for a company of 8 employees and the owner. He thanks us everyday for working for him. Find youeself a job in a small company and enjoy your job. Big companies are not worth the paper they are printed on any more.

[@swapnagowda]

Best video I watched,use of words like “freaking travesty “ summarizes the current situation. Please make this video go viral, everyone should try to make an attempt to understand their current situation.

[@dezbro79]

Weak leadership, poor innovation, and general apathy is what I see in corporate America. I was in banking for 12 years and now 10 years on the brokerage side of things. Zero incentive, and meaningless work. You hit the nail right on the head. Like a hamster on a wheel going nowhere fast. The real question we should all be asking ourselves is, how do we fix it? We've identified the problem, we need solutions.

[@hermocrasbreadlord9557]

Guillotines

[@rosieE121]

@@dezbro79 and quality is poor.

[@Donald-fg2ew]

I recently quit my career of 32 yrs because I was losing myself and my sanity. It is scary but I am and always will be a survivor.

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

What's scary, your retiring?

[@drnick40]

“No inspiration to work hard”. Very well said.

[@markbrowning4334]

This comment right here. This speaks to every commentor on here crying about a bad workplace or a low wage. People are quick to complain about how abusive their workplace is or how little they think they are being paid, but they tend to conveniently forget about what they ever brought to the table as an employee. How much did they actually do on the job? Did they do the bare minimum? Did they come in a little late or leave a little early, while making for damn sure that they soaked up every second of every lunch break? I've been around awhile now. I've seen how many people treat their work. I don't have much sympathy for these people who cry out for "living wages" or a work place that isn't abusive. I think most of them just don't know what they're talking about. Not to mention, most of these people proudly vote democrat which facilitates the inflation that we're currently experiencing.

[@kennethcoppins1842]

Good luck Damon - Mankind is flawed and his greed will destroy this planet unless things change. Maybe our younger generation can change that. I'm 70 years old and I see and feel your concerns. Keep up the good work and help bring change ASAP. I hope I'm alive to see it,

[@111street]

Sin.. Rejection of Gods Law...Man believing he is wiser than God..Doing horrible things to one another.. Evil. hatred., pride walk over each other..Wars, killing, death, suffering, oppression, deception "to keep people safe"

[@CaptHiltz]

Ultimately, almost all of us are making someone who already has more money than they should more wealthy.

[@joesterling4299]

8:37 through 11 minutes in the timeline - Watching recommended, if you missed it or already forgot.

[@ryang2573]

This. Precisely. People are realizing that they're busting the asses, foresaking their friends, family, and those who matter most them, all to make some rich asshole slightly richer in exchange for some of his table scraps.

[@thewallstreetjournal5675]

Im ok with that arangement if the CEO actually adds vaule. It's when they make tens of millions of dollars and drive the enitre orgainzation into the ground that I get offended.

[@drmidnight680-kz2le]

​@@ryang2573mostly it's the politicians getting rich, elections have consequences, you shouldn't complain.

[@ryang2573]

@@thewallstreetjournal5675 Working for another person, in general, isn't a bad thing. What makes it bad is the perceived status and air of authority that people, both employee and employer, feel comes along with such an arrangement. It should be seen as a trade between equals: your money for my labor. Instead people view their employers as their de facto rulers and so they are willing to make all kinds of sacrifices they shouldn't, rationally, be obliged to make; e.g. neglecting one's friends, family, and mental health all to get some fucking report in before some arbitrary date.

[@TheStrick10]

the percentage of jobs requiring a college degree fell from 51% in 2017 to 44% percent in 2021. And according to Gallup, the percentage of U.S. adults ages 18 to 29 who view college education as “very important” dropped from 74% to 41% in just six years.

[@EternalKernel]

50% of job postings are fake. They are used a as tool to influence the stock market or to gather data that is later sold. It's such and obvious way to collect and sell data the chance this is not the case is very very minimal.

[@davestewart2067]

Most “college” is a waste. Overdue to cut out the liberal arts and bring in vocational training to most division I/IA/II & III institutions.

[@squirlmy]

No, because there are not the numbers of jobs out there that require vocational training. Talking with many HR people, college was just to make sure the student was "trainable" they full well know English major won't use those skills. But plumbers, carpenters, etc. The only jobs are temporary contract work, and there's not always opportunity to improve the skills you do learn. The idea that we can go back to "vocational training" is an illusion. It just moves the burden of student debt, to the same banks, in the end.

[@jmanke6057]

If that high percentage schools are falling companies OJT being more important now let down by degrees unless government jobs who still value them

[@Chris-m2o1s]

ITs very difficult to get a good job without a college degree. I know, I did it.

[@toasterhothead3312]

I’m a nurse in a nursing home. before,the administrators and all the higher ups actually cared about us, ensured we were properly staffed and we had fun while doing our job. I would get little raises here and there, no I wasn’t being paid as much as other nurses but we enjoyed our job, our residents got good to great level of care and we had the materials to do a good job. The business was bought by Bane and it’s been all down hill. We are always understaffed, they accept residents that have prior problems at other places, we don’t get raises (yes even after we ask they always have an excuse), more residents while being understaffed, only being talked too and being pointed out short comings and I’m like why even bother anymore…I’m quitting this year and I shoulda quit earlier

[@Psychodermia]

Once I left the SNFs, I got a job in a Kaiser Permanente oncology clinic. The benefits were better, hours are reasonable, but pay was kinda the same. Nursing homes suck. I really feel for those that end up in one, even the staff. I would rather die than being fully dependent on a SNF. Good luck. 👽✌️

[@KJJ782]

It’s not the administration that caused issues, it’s higher overhead costs for hospitals and healthcare as a whole. Healthcare administrators such as myself has a seriously difficult time managing costs. You know what the problem is; it is in fact employee wages that has driven up costs.

[@Sionnach1601]

That's very very sad to hear. The poor elderly people. I feel bad for you too: you who by the sounds of it has a very good work ethos and correctly treats your job as a vocation.

[@TaraConti]

Imagine how the patients/residents feel…

[@melanieworthington4110]

Thank you young man! You took the time to research the history of WHY things are the way they are! I’m old (63) and you hit the nail on the head! It’s so sad that employees don’t matter! You are the young person we need in the world!

[@ketle369]

I used the inflation calculator and found out I’ve earn 40% less than ten years ago. If I add the devaluation of my country’s currency compared to US dollars it’s 60%. This is how fiat money fuxks you over.

[@Fawn91193]

It's called 'chattel paper' for a reason.

[@CJ-gv6bq]

Our governornment, political leaders and central banks are the ones who destroyed the value of the US dollar. Every war that they propagandize makes the current and future generations poorer and poorer. Keep funding the endless printing of fiat currency and the value of the dollar will continue to decline. This has nothing to do with what a CEO makes. Although, I understand that wealth discrepancies frustrate people.

[@nursetammy6470]

That's how Obama has f*cked us. He did this and continues with his 3rd term. Anyone with more than 2 brain cells understands that the current chief isn't in control of anything.

[@personzorz]

Far better than the alternative.

[@nonplayablecharactor7728]

thats why you should buy bitcoin

[@EffWriteOff.]

People do want to work. But not where they're overworked, underpaid, unappreciated, and disrespected. The people whinging that people " don't want to work " are the ones sat behind a desk raking in the profits, paying the employees a pittance, and scratching their heads as to why the employees do the bare minimum.

[@Troy_KC-2-PH]

Or if not the high up desk sitters they are just little parrots parroting what the higher ups are saying (nobody wants work bawk! Nobody wants to work!)

[@Erec-s7c]

No they don't they are Lazy

[@1969coolchange]

When discussing inflation, one must understand that it is "cumulative". So, since we left the gold Standard in 1971 and the government could just print money with no limit, the value of the dollar continuously decreased. So, the things you buy haven't gotten more expensive ... The value of the currency has been drastically devalued.

[@DamonCassidy]

You are absolutely right. I don't believe I articulated that properly. Thank you for mentioning this!

[@dialecticalmonist3405]

It is also based on supply and demand. Our current leadership has destroyed energy supply. I've been screaming this for 20 years, but nope, got to stop the coal business because of "global warming" or whatever nonsense name they are calling it now.

[@aspensulphate]

In 1971, Pandora's Box was opened. Government & central bankers could steal the wealth of the people without them even realizing it. This has had a massive effect, making the rich richer, and the middle class poorer, and not one person in a thousand understands why.

[@kirkjohnson6638]

Yes, the cost of practically all goods has gone down drastically due to productivity gains (if we measure the value of something based on man hours put into making it), but the prices have gone way up because the value of money has dropped so much.

[@TheFantasticG]

The value of money has decreased since December 25, 1913.

[@lauraarzola]

Beautifully done! You are a member of the generation that is deciding that work is meant to be something that we feel in our hearts as having value. when we know that, we can do many things. Your generation is not going to put up with meaninglessness. I am 79 years old, and I love you for it. You are going to make a different in this world thanks to all of you. We love you.

[@harrisonbergeron5393]

I'm a 53 year old white male. I still work but what has really taken it out of me the last couple of years is seeing my fairly large 401k dwindle, the thoughts of retiring at a decent age being pushed out (very deflating, huge taxes being taken and used by a government (and given to other countries) for things I don't believe in. And an overall feeling that as a tax paying, non-criminal, decent hard working citizen of the United States being completely taken advantage of, ignored, taken for granted and abused.

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

All THAT CAN change in the next election... Now, let us see what peoples choice will be.

[@rm3141593]

Ditto, 51 year old white male!

[@fj81191]

DON'T make the mistake of imagining either political party will help you with this. They both see you as a fool and a tool for them to exploit. You would have to start small and join a union to make a dent. Eventually you can be heard, but you can't get distracted from facing your real enemies. And they have 1000 years of practice serving up distractions.

[@harrisonbergeron5393]

@@fj81191 Oh I'd never make that mistake. Not at this point. Totally agree with you

[@tangomike3681]

My 401k lost so much, and what's left isn't worth much because the dollar is losing value ever day. 401k was the biggest scam I ever invested in. Should've just put it in my bank account.

[@trexxg1436]

I once told a boss that I grant to him authority over me and I can remove that grant of authority anytime I want, then I quit and walked out the door.

[@scottmckinney6328]

I told a few of my bosses to go fuck themselves.

[@tiahenry4743]

Hahahahah now that's funny.

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

no good paying jobs with job security and no pensions anymore ruined workplaces

[@robanderson84]

and hardly any Union Jobs left.....fight back!

[@comment8767]

@@robanderson84 How do you fight someone who can't afford to give to the job you want?

[@robanderson84]

@@comment8767my work says they have no money all the time, but then they waste 25 million per year on things i can track the spending on, and much of that isn't needed for the company to succeed...they lie to me and my co workers constantly.... you could try to find a better employer or become self employeed...its my dream someday...not easy i know....and also voting for candidates that are pro worker....hard to find also i know! ....everyday i try to make life better for those who work for a living...but i am not rich...just having respect on the job counts for something

[@bmoshareholderappleshareho855]

Nobody is going to come and save you. You have to save yourself.

[@fritzthecat9451]

@@robanderson84 cause unions aren't competitive. They currently exist to launder money to the democrat party.

[@douglasfoster2215]

Our government is spending nearly 1 Trillion dollars every 6 months , this cannot continue at this pace .

[@rudeawakening3833]

To your point - it is officially every 100 days ! Sickening .

[@SocratesOnline]

@@rudeawakening3833Unfortunately it can. But were does that number come from? Rich people finance cities, munipalities, states with Municipal Bonds that the person who lend the money doesn’t need to pay taxes on, fireign countries buy bonds instead of keeping cash and at the end of the lending period if the state needs to pay and people/institutions will not provide the money then either the municipalities/states… go broke or new bonds will be created by the treasury to get cash to pay for reserves that pay for salaries. The treasury can keep those bonds untill it wants to sell them. So the US can never go broke. Except the expenditure for salaries, to provide services for the state like war, secret services, bureaucracies do not satisfy the demands for those salaried people. Maybe this is alledgedly there is a relatively low worklessness in the US but high unemployment. These bonds when used internally in the US used to be taxes on the rich. Taxes on the rich did not create liabilities for the state to rollover. In Roosevelts time in the thirties, then Trumans time in the fourties untill the seventies the economy was booming fot everyones benefit except for the very rich who « needed » more money and « needed » to discipline everyone else to submission. They succeeded with Reagan who started to bully the workers and kill the trade unions.

[@llroySaves]

Correction, they are not spending 1T every six months, they are borrowing 1T every six months and you are the collateral. Do you know what happens when they if they have to liquidate the collateral?

[@SocratesOnline]

@@douglasfoster2215 It can as long as we are talking about dollars (of course with the ensuing inflation)

[@LinuxKnuckleHead]

My boss showed up at the job site one day driving this really nice brand new truck. All the bells and whistles. It was a beautiful truck and I said "Wow... nice ride" and said to me "If you come in early every morning and work long hours and just work really really hard... next year I will be able to buy another one"

[@dhart28]

How is that fair??!?

[@24goodbuddy]

At least he was honest. Employees carrying the load while employers reap the benefits.

[@LinuxKnuckleHead]

@@24goodbuddy absolutely and that's something I've always lived by. A person can't get ahead working at just a job. You save and then make your money work for you in one way or another. Make your own business and buy your own new truck.

[@danielpledezma8558]

😂yea right. If my grandma were alive i would be 20 years

[@fritzthecat9451]

​@@LinuxKnuckleHeadmake your own business. Too bad govt and insurance companies have seen to that. Established business using their "free speech" to buy a business environment that crushes competition before their doors even open. F this system. Quit working and bankrupt it.

[@spaghettisama]

That ruling that a corporation's primary responsibility is towards their shareholders rather than their employees is probably one of the most socially disasterous things ever decided in a court of law in the history of common law.

[@jmanke6057]

Gone are days of strong company to last years and employees can count on.

[@imdjc4]

When our mother raised us boys in the 70s, she always told us how dangerous life will become when companies make more money than the government. And here we are.

[@powersww1reset]

@@jmanke6057 not to mention, the deliberate method of scaling down the quality and service life of seemingly every product currently made. Built to fail, to ensure future customers 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@Mrblueridgeman]

@@imdjc4NOBODY makes more $ than the govt.

[@adamhonan7744]

Then Reagan removed all caps

[@billwhitis9997]

I'm over 60. You are one of the very few young people who see what is really happening. The tide is rising, but the potential result is uncertain. Raising political awareness in the young is paramount to the chance to save their world.

[@bellaclyde]

100%

[@JustJudyLynn]

You have integrity young man. Well done. My husband and I worked when integrity and work ethics meant something. But as the years went by , the work environment changed. And continued to change. Drastically. Businesses consider integrity to a detriment. They consider work ethics useless, because they will drag out of you what they need anyway. You’re on the right track. Don’t let the world eat your soul. You are, indeed, a gleam of light.

[@jwalkerC21]

I worked for Hewlett Packard from 1979 to 2009, and from 1979 to around 1999 we loved working for HP as we were a group of people inventing and making the world a better place, then starting in 1999 the following CEOs ruined the work environment with their bean counter mentality. No one cared anymore, it was just a job now, this was tough to finally accept. MBA training is wrong but when you have never worked your way up the company ladder you do whatever crazy MBA theory fad is most popular for CEOs at the time. Then add in the unrealistic and bad management expectations coming from the stock analysis and you have deteriorating companies only looking for the next quarter's results and not long-term results.

[@mattp5991]

Yep. That's what happens when a company goes from having Engineers running it, to MBAs running it.....or should I say RUINing it....

[@koyotekola6916]

@jwalkerC21 Same thing happened to Boeing. It was a great engineering company until the MBAs took over. They moved HQ from Seattle to Chicago, then to Crystal CIty, VA where they were closer to the politicians. They had the 737MAX blow up in their faces and their space capsule is not stuck to the ISS awaiting rescue. The bean counters still think they can salvage the company, but their track record is dismal. Many big companies have been ruined this way. It's proven by history. Same with the USA country. It's going socialist where many don't work, a few do.

[@teg5135]

Academia was better before they began hiring administrators. And remember that Clinton signed NAFTA which increased competition and caused lots of outsourcing to other countries, where the cost of production decreased providing an increase in profits to board of directors. They sell it back to us and we are happy that prices are lower as consumers. In addition our greedy government keeps taxing companies so high.

[@genewojciechowski9567]

My dad said the same thing about 40 years ago. I didn't listen to him then (who listens to their dad?). He said that the emphasis on the quarterly earnings of companies to the exclusion of everything else was going to destroy business in America. No company would do R and D anymore because, even though they would make money for the company in the future. they were not producing a profit in this quarter. I was laid off from a company even though I was told that I was an excellent worker, because the company needed to downsize because they were concerned about the stock price after the upcoming quarterly report.

[@tommybotts]

You know the old cliche' - 'Make the Stock Attractive'...

[@mikecubes1642]

thats right, corporations have no loyalty to customers or employees only to stock holders because most companies are fake. most office jobs are made up to employ the masses so there are no riots or revolts, they produce nothing and do nothing but make fake busy work for stupid people that went to college. 200 years ago those same people would have been beggars and thieves, now they sit at a computer all day drinking coffee and talk about how important they are to the country.

[@lightlayagajoie5739]

Well isn't that kind of true by definition. If you prioritize profit over everything else it will destroy whatever company that is doing that. For the simple fact that "profit" is prioritized over long term survival.

[@datzcap006]

At the end of the day Americans need to hear this from someone who worked inside the financial system and expose the dark truth

[@disklamer]

Check out Occupy Wall Street, the Panama Papers, and the countless folks exposing corporate sociopathy. People know, they just feel like they have no recourse.

[@Enoch1012]

I want to work, I'm just tired of playing the fake games it takes to get employed and then deal with all the superficiality in the workplace environment. I'd be nothing without this wonderful team I'm privileged to work with. When you're in your 20's, the professional world will project success onto you as long as you exude some level of confidence. Once you reach middle-age, that projection turns into something different.

[@chaosordeal294]

Labor prices are up, and corporate America wants to pay thirty-years-ago wages. They want me to come begging for a job at any pay rate, and I am not showing up.

[@bud5084]

They want you to work cheap so the upper management can make a million dollars a year

[@8356-4]

What are you living on? The taxpayer's money, mom and dad? You can't live on nothing? Do you live on the streets?

[@thedukeofdeathpt6262]

@@8356-4 Corporate Simp

[@scottmckinney6328]

@@8356-4 He can live on welfare supplied by idiotic working chumps who still think they can vote their way out of this.

[@Twotone-ld1fb]

@@thedukeofdeathpt6262 Hes not wrong though. Only so many people can mooch off the rest of us before the whole thing collapses. But then maybe we do need the whole thing to collapse. I'd likely die though with my health issues.

[@manfromatlantisX]

Such an honest and heartfelt video. I'm 60 years old and your views are on target. You have restored my faith in your generation.

[@LisaMaeSV650S]

@manfromatlantisX Why do I see so many of us 60 year olds here on these type of channels? They call us baby boomers, but we are not. We are generation x. We are the generation that missed the baby boomers boom and missed the Tech boom. You and I were nearly 40 when the internet started. We rode in on the coat.Tails up the baby boomer's generation when we assumed that if you worked a forty hour week and showed up every day you got paid a living wage. We missed the good unions and the good pensions, but most of us are not "skilled" but we actually are! With a great work ethic! We don't have the enthusiasm to try to keep up with the job market today.But we still have to work with no retirement in sight

[@denim99987]

Yes I am on tail end of baby boom. Always wondered why that generation covers so many years. There were two boomer generations. The older group and the younger group. Since we saw the moon landing. Maybe the later group is the mooners😢. Anyway the older group had it better overall. Later group was start of 401k´s. I still view stock as an unsecured loan to a company. If the stock crashed , one gets nada.

[@GregAllen1158]

You touched on the whole problem, it is the greed of the corporations always needing to increase the bottom line for shareholders. How much profit is enough, and when should it be considered too much for employees to bear, and the consumer?

[@DamonCassidy]

Absolutely right! This trajectory is incredibly unrealistic and destructive

[@klaaspekala6804]

Trouble is: the companies cannot escape either! If another company is making more profit (By extorting even harder), then shareholders will withdraw their capital from your company and give it to that other company. It's late stage capitalism thats the problem and i dont know a good solution...

[@antpoo]

Fiat money must compound at a min 6% rate. It works until the exponential curve begins to go parabolic. It starts to go toward infinity and that’s game over. We are close

[@canawolford4491]

This video got me in the feels!!!😢❤ Thank you for so eloquently explaining reality right now!❤ You’re a real one!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥 👏 👏 👏

[@p.d8423]

Employers started Not to show interest in Employee retention, Hired & fired on the drop of the hat. Hence - employees could not rely on steady work and skipped from one employ to another. Morale, Pride and Professionalism went out the window I am a Boomer. The change I have seen is awful. Wow.

[@bobwild9995]

As a Boomer here..........Yes, seen that for years, also the A-hole bosses that couldn't keep help........but also as a tradesman, can tell you how many ppl showed up and BS there way in and couldn't do walk after all the talk.

[@mikeholt1248]

@@bobwild9995 Another Boomer here, I have seen that same thing and recently my own son lived/witnessed it as well. He worked a new position employed by a major city, and as a result met the public every day dealing with massive regulations and details, as well as presenting himself as a professional advocate and problem solver. In only a few months, his performance gave him an opportunity for a major promotion. The other candidate was a fast-talking, BS-spouting character from California with an impressive résumé. My son was instructed to explain the procedures and policies to the newcomer which he did diligently for about a month. The newcomer refused to learn the new ropes and continued to BS his way along until it was time for the overall boss to decide whom to promote. The newcomer then started skipping days at work, so my son did receive the promotion. If you work diligently and do the right thing you WILL eventually come out on top. In the meantime, just like the KZbin narrator said, take pride and gain satisfaction in doing a job well and in the long run things will work out.

[@rosieE121]

@@p.d8423 yes, and quality and customer service are gone too. They get away with it because of monopolies and lack of competition.

[@ksgraham3477]

Add to that the temp industry for real devaluation of the employee.

[@MAURICZZIO1]

In 1980's we used to work to Save, pay rent, buy a car, buy food, and to live better as we go we had a Purpose. Now everything has changed.

[@randymillhouse791]

Did you save in the 1980's? Hmmmm? Do you have savings and a nest egg now?

[@thomasdevine867]

Some people have always lived that way. Other people have always been profligate. It's about individuals, not time periods. Sometimes, certain strategies seem to work better. It's mainly an illusion. The profligate are always showier so people pay more attention to them.

[@koyotekola6916]

Nothing's changed. The future belongs to the strong. The weak get left behind.

[@CapriciousCapricrn]

Couldn't do that stuff in the '80s 'cause the outsourcing/contracting mode mentioned in this vid started to kick in my work life then. Its cons (there are no pros) of no benefits, income gaps due to time between assignments etc. resulted in me living paycheck-to-paycheck most of my working life.

[@thomasdevine867]

@koyotekola6916 This nation has been at its best when we rejected that way of doing things.

[@chriscampbell9191]

Companies do not know how to hire anymore. "Go online" they say (a polite way of saying "talk to the hand, go away"). So you go online. You now get to come up with yet one more inscrutable, 'unique' password, another login name, give them all your data, while you deal with competing AI HR bots that contradict each other, and only communicate with you via robot texts and 'do not reply' emails -- with no human involved in the entire dehumanizing process. Think about it -- if they don't even want to talk to you in person, and treat you like a throwaway app, why would you want to work there?

[@moe4meswtdg]

My friend experienced this phenomenon in 2008 when she applied for numerous jobs to no avail. A counselor told her that your resume is subject to review by a robot looking for certain predetermined key words pertaining to that company and if they’re not in the resume, your application is trashed. Problem is that no one knows exactly what these key phrases are.

[@mystikmind2005]

Here in Australia, the problem is accommodation - that's the demon turning perfectly good living wages into third world poverty conditions in this country. Because the areas where the jobs are, accommodation is so expensive no one wants those jobs, OBVIOUSLY not. Only immigrants are stupid enough to work hard all day and then hand 70% of their pitiful wages left after tax to a landlord or mortgage company. But some people make it work by stacking 10 families into a 2 bedroom apartment... this is what we have sunk too because of the unquenchable greed of landlords which just keeps rolling on day by day while the government plays Nero's fiddle.