Why Most People Don’t Own Their Jobs

[@user-lk5do2pc3x]

Maybe this video should be shown in all High schools & colleges. Thanks for sharing the truth, good work ethics & common sense. God bless 🙏🏻

[@jessebell1930]

It is a damning indictment on our post-modern society that this even needs explaining. You definitely did right with your daughter mate. Too many parents would do the opposite. Have had issues myself with some of the young ones at my workplace (I train in the new kids). The mothers are the worst for it. Their little "angel" can do no wrong and we apparently have to accommodate laziness, bad attitude, no work ethic, absenteeism etc. I started working at 11 years old as a cleaner boy in a butcher. Failure to work hard resulted in my boss putting a foot up my arse, and a strap around my arse when I got home. Suffice to say I developed very good work ethic from this😉

[@justineld4905]

It's painful how few in modern western culture understand any of the points made here. My own understanding is even probably a little lacking. Excellent video again, Nick!

[@hobbyhermit66]

Well said. I wish people that I work with could understand this.

[@thanksfernuthin]

I remember realizing that most people have the wrong frame of reference when it comes to working for someone. They almost think of it as charity. A boss that's nice will pay them a lot and a boss that's mean will pay them too little. Employees were operating under the impression that all the power was in the hands of the employer. But no... your employer isn't paying you because they're nice and giving you a living. They're paying you because they HAVE to. They need the work you perform. It's an agreement between equals. I don't know if I'm explaining it correctly. I just know the normal outlook of employees is they are helpless pieces of fluff blown around by the wind. Instead of a free person selling their time and skills.

[@sickofcrap8992]

Equals!? 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@junior.von.claire]

@@sickofcrap8992Yeah, the two certainly don’t enter the consensual trade having the same level of investment and risk.

[@robedmund9948]

I love it when people complain that they are worth more than they are being paid. I always, respectfully, ask them why they aren't out finding someone who will pay them what they think they are worth. That's when the excuses start. "I shouldn't have to look elsewhere. I should be valued by my current employer. Why should I have to further my education?" and so forth. When their rant winds down, I ask them if they truly understand Capitalism. Most don't.

[@patkarp1965]

You have this conversation a lot? True capitalism is self regulating. What we have today is not True Capitalism. If it was True Capitalism the government would not give subsidies and tax breaks to big business. The Stock Market would not exist. The dollar would be based on something of value such as Gold.

[@nunyabidness3075]

Take it easy on them, they don’t realize their employers don’t profit off their labor until they first produce double what they get paid. I have NEVER seen anyone reproduce a list of all the taxes and mandates employers pay for without starting with a list of those things in their hands or on their screen. And, that’s just the beginning. Various matching of taxes, payroll insurance, health, dental, disability. Then you add compliance costs and other overhead, and training, and supervision. Workers aren’t ever going to figure it out, and there’s plenty of people who like it that way because it means their positions are safer.

[@toolittletoolate3917]

They have been spoon-fed the Marxist labor theory of value and nothing about demand and supply. If anyone can do a particular job, then you can expect the pay to be minimum wage, no matter how wonderful you believe yourself to be.

[@billstrasburg384]

Capitalism? You mean that thing that we ALMOST had back in the 1980s? I've got news for you. The USA is a socialist country. China is more Capitalist than we are on the economic side. Not the political side, to be sure......but we're talking economics here. The USA is socialist and is collapsing because of it.

[@Petesworkshop2225]

They made me Manager. Manager of what? I have no power or authority just responsibilities.

[@mikereese15]

What an awesome story. Thanks for sharing. Need to save and share woth my kids when they're older.

[@helendavis9787]

Great advice.

[@brianwisecarver4880]

Competence is misspelled

[@jfreemanidb]

These are great; thanks Nick!

[@jcmount1305]

This... should be required view for every 16 year old in the country.... maybe we'd have fewer whining cry babies about how hard working is.

[@sickofcrap8992]

Nope. Them whining won't stop, until the parents learn to discipline their kids, to bring them up like humans, not the little monsters they end up.

[@mikitz]

Nobody owns his/her job, not even entrepreneurs. Your boss owns yours and the customers/clients own theirs.

[@kkmm2023]

Companies should adopt this video into their orientation.

[@walthill7091]

You are so right

[@rocketman3485]

We need more bobble head episodes.

[@Hari983]

I wish more people had this mindset

[@matthewheald8964]

I clicked this video because the title seemed so completely foreign to me; I knew that people didn’t own their own jobs and was wondering why he thought they should and how that would work. I watched the whole video without learning anything I didn’t already know, and I’m still in high school. There are young people who know this and who are willing to work; don’t give up on us yet guys.

[@murielbaith5445]

No, you are not a crap dad. You said the correct thing to both of them.

[@mchume65]

I grew up on a dairy farm. I milked the cows because my Dad had a city job. I didn't get paid. My first paying job was the US Navy.

[@nedtrox5385]

“The second aspect of the development of the market in labor involves the separation of workers from their instruments of production. By the time of the American Revolution when private property was the rule, the ownership of the means of production was still quite widespread. About 80% of the nonslave adult males in the United States were independent property owners or professionals - farmers, merchants, traders, craftsmen or artisans, businessmen, lawyers, doctors, and so on. By 1880, this figure had fallen to 33% and, at present, more than 90% of all adults in the labor force are non managerial wage and salary workers. In the course of this transformation to a wage-labor system, the family farm fell to corporate agri-business; craft-organized shops were replaced by the factory system; and the services became bureaucratized” (“Schooling in Capitalist America” by Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis page 59). In short, America started out as a society of self-employed laborers with their own property independent of any kind of managerial control. Today this is all but virtually gone.

[@billstrasburg384]

Socialism. The government fought me so hard and collapsed my business. I'm not even interested in doing that anymore. I'm applying for jobs working for someone else now. I'm just looking for a remote job so I can move out of this collapsing country.

[@nedtrox5385]

@@billstrasburg384 Well, in a capitalist system, other businesses will fight you hard to collapsed your business. Especially the monopoly giants.

[@tortuejaune6064]

its nice to hear common sense these days

[@Burnlit1337]

I agree with everything here except for your statement at 2:30. Brittany or Businesses doesn't have every right to seek out the best labor for their business because that would mean that they are entitled to the best, say an world famous actress to bring in people or a skilled gastrologist. I think what you meant to say is that businesses have the right to seek out the best labor but for the right price.

[@epicnamepwns1242]

Girl and business have the right to seek the best availabe position or employee they can successfully bid for with the value they can offer. This is not entitlement to a fixed outcome but the opportunity to pursue excellence.

[@ctreid87]

Beard Wednesday!

[@ctreid87]

Really great Why Minutes this week! (I mean, they're great every week too...)

[@craigwilliamsSeekTheLord]

This is why Capitalism works, but Communism fails.