Why Work Is Getting Worse

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Most of us grow up with the ingrained notion that life for every successive generation is better than the last. That truism no longer seems to be the case. Why is everything seeming to go downhill? And why is work specifically getting so much worse?
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[@SecondThought]

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[@thearchitectwarrior5409]

I'm having trouble downloading your citation on the relationship between wages and inflation. I'm interested to see the details on that one, so I hope the issue is resolved soon. Great video.

[@unagjac890]

I appreciate you using "friend" instead of "comrade". That word always makes me uneasy.

[@alexswedenborg1856]

@Zaydan Alfariz Likely they are part of the top 1% and don't want some of us "middles" knowing the truth about real $$$!! data....data......

[@abdelrakhman]

​@@unagjac890don't worry fellow, friend and comrade has different meaning

[@prajakta2671]

Capitalism is turning back history Soon it will be like 17th ,18th ,19th century

[@Sirfatandblack]

My favorite is when jobs set unrealistic expectations and when you don’t meet them you get barked at BUT when you do meet them you get rewarded with higher expectations

[@sp123]

yeah, its a no win situation.

[@pastdue7170]

Floof~

[@Candyy248]

Is like they do not want to teach new ppl v:

[@goliathtigerfishes]

​@@Candyy248 Yep because they don't want to teach someone new. Why hire a new person when you can dump more work on the ones you already have? Sucks.

[@alexrose20]

Productivity is a trap

[@cattibingo]

One of my biggest problems is companies wanting to track and micromanage your every move. Also the attitude of "workers must be doing something productive literally every second" which has always existed but is getting much more intense

[@michaelscottpettis]

I worked in a warehouse where we picked orders with stickers, they switched to a headset that literally had to be worn at all times, reading orders to you. you had to tell it to go to break in order to stop the production standard. the company then tried to add a worn device that beeped when you lifted improperly. it was so degrading, every second was tracked, every second late was a write up, every movement was micromanaged. this is going on at warehouses nationwide right now, workers need to wake up that we are already living in a candy coated dystopia. we have to work together for real change and start saying no to this insanity.

[@Purplenpinkk]

If YoU hAvE tImE tO lEaN yOu HaVe TiMe To ClEaN!

[@emretekmen1602]

​@@michaelscottpettisjoin the DSA and help create tangible change

[@michaelscottpettis]

@@emretekmen1602 we’ve worked alongside the DSA in Portland, good folks. I do a lot of union organizing

[@loorthedarkelf8353]

The need to keep busy followed me even after I quit back into my home life.... I have so much trouble relaxing, and I only was in retail for 5 years I won't Go Back.

[@gertrudewest4535]

The work place is so effing toxic these days- it’s unbearable and everyone is at each other’s throats. It physically makes me ill.

[@finchfry]

My mom has been putting her head down and working for the past six years in a government job. She took all the overtime she could get, didn't use vacation time, moved up to middle management and so on. She paid off her student loans, but she has been completely priced out of the housing market despite all of her work. She's finally starting to get what I've been saying for years - your job doesn't care about you. Yes, your direct coworkers probably care about you, but your job doesn't. Not even a government job. Now she's using all of her saved up vacation time to only work like three days a week, which I guess is the one benefit she's gotten from not using it all this time.

[@theintrovertedaspie9095]

Im story for her. Just goes to show that no matter how much you work or how much you dedicate something could still go wrong and you could still fall flat.

[@PerpetualityHypnosis]

was it a a state or a federal job?

[@midnightblue1874]

Coworker do not care about you either...i would say that they are in most cases more dangerous then employer and menagment with snitching, backstabing, gossiping,etc..

[@leeprzytula5959]

Yes another leach i have to pay for.

[@joanryder3842]

@@leeprzytula5959 That's exactly the mindset the 1% want you to have. They want you to take it out on your neighbors, instead of them.

[@purplehaze2358]

Last I checked, child labor actually qualifies as a literal crime against humanity. So.. the direction this country is heading seems pretty bleak.

[@QuantumCairo]

Ugh, I'm not trying to be that guy but "the direction the country has gone" should be the statement because it's been a shit show my whole life, I'm 33, I'd wager that it probably hasn't even attempted to turn it around / stopped trying since the late 80s or early 90s. It's been in a steady decline since Ford in 74' from my gatherings.

[@injusticeanywherethreatens265]

EVERY COUNTRY! AAAAAAAAAAAH!

[@sidwayelson]

​@@QuantumCairo yeah it was heading downhill since Reagan

[@Azurethewolf168]

@@gwynbleidd1917 i mean this is America after all, the most western out of all the western countries and it makes sense. Most of the colonial countries take whatever their host country did and bases their society around amped to 11. Only here can you see people using the name of freedom to do something horrible and where the constitution is like the nations bible. Only here can you see people frame words like independence or freedom as a means to do the exact opposite and get more of what they want.

[@DavidRichardson153]

​@@QuantumCairo I'm 35 now, and I fully agree. The only time my work did not get worse while in the US was when I worked a government job as a microbiologist for my home state's health department. Pretty good pay, somewhat decent living arrangements, excellent benefits, perfectly acceptable workload, and a boss who actually knew what the job entailed - truly a great deal...so naturally, the Republican state government slashed the budget and put my job on the chopping block. It took a while to scrape enough together, but I managed to GTFO out of the sh^thole that is the US. My current job is not something I had ever imagined taking, and it has never been what most might describe as "easy," but it has been rather fulfilling, it pays only slightly less than my microbiologist position while still being enough to support me, and I get far more benefits and protections than I ever got back in the US (including joining a union). F^^^ neoliberalism, f^^^ Reaganomics, f^^^ everything Republicans do, and f^^^ the corporate Democrats who enable these Republican terrorists. American workers need to take not just a single page from French workers, but the entire book.

[@seanwilliams7655]

Work is getting worse because capitalism is at the point where it can't expand anymore. So it's starting to eat its own tail to maintain profits. It's actually been doing that for decades now. It's just being noticed more because it's starting to have a negative affect on college educated professionals now, whereas before it was guys in factories. The rise of "gig work" has also made things way worse.

[@kataruchitraketh]

Capitalism has reached the limits of it's expansion. Now it has nowhere to expand.

[@lol-ih1tl]

That is a good thing I guess, because a revolution can be achieved much easier.

[@gabethebaeb_5881]

What do you mean by "gig work"? Just curious.

[@mcduckington]

@@gabethebaeb_5881 Uber and other work where people are not technically employees and make money according to how much they hussle (even then, just a tiny fraction of the value they produced).

[@PrettyGuardian]

​@@gabethebaeb_5881 Gig work is stuff like driving for uber, left, doordash, grubhub, instacart etc. The video explains some of how these have worsened conditions for workers such as by passing the burden for insurances on to the employee who is already being underpaid for their services.

[@susanrolls2211]

I agree with your analysis. My career became harder, more demanding, and with minimal increase in pay, while loosing benefits over the decades. Greed at the top is crushing us.

[@carlinelafaille6123]

I’m an 18 year old recent high school graduate and looking at the world today makes my stomach turn. All I can ask is how? How am I supposed to make it in this economy? Unless you have connections, job security and livable wages aren’t nearly as obtainable as they once were. How can I beat this?

[@HughJass-jv2lt]

#BLAXIT

[@bluestorm9651]

I don't think we can. Neither side really has a viable solution and are really just exploiting us. The whole system has to go down.

[@kevin-cr9gt]

Dont vote for democrats ever.

[@infernoglass_]

the answer is called 'lying flat'

[@princessmarlena1359]

I’d say “drug dealing”, but there’s a high risk of getting busted, or being killed. Or both. Lying Flat or Let It Rot are the best ways to go.

[@laurennelson9880]

I worked at a Walmart that had teenagers working overnights without breaks. 8 hour shifts without stopping till dawn. It was insane. The kids were too young to understand that what was happening was against the law. They were all just desperately saving for college. Plus being overnights, there wasn't anyone there to notice and cause a stir. When I brought it up to the dayshift employees word got back to my boss. He cut my hours down to part-time causing me to lose my health insurance and seek out another job. The environment of the store was that all this was normal and it was my fault for speaking out. That I put those kids jobs in danger. All this in a deeply blue state with some of the strictest labor laws. It's a wild time to be alive.

[@furiousdestroyah9999]

We're at the doorstep of very dark times

[@magesalmanac6424]

I’m sorry that happened to you. Thank you for speaking up on behalf of those young workers!

[@radiationshepherd]

It would've 10 hours now

[@laurennelson9880]

@@magesalmanac6424 That's life. haha

[@laurennelson9880]

@@radiationshepherd Nah, the bloodsuckers gotta keep you right at 39.9 hours so you can never have health insurance.

[@Purpletrident]

I love making fun of France, but man I really admire their passion for burning things down in the face of injustice. If only Americans had a fraction of that motivation. Politicians should be afraid of the people.

[@eldarr0uge482]

Well, yep, but it’s depressing to see that this isn’t even enough… despite all that, politicians don’t care, they send an ever more brutal police and wait until people can’t go on strike anymore. How far do we have to go so they listen to us ?

[@j.c.k.8639]

Make 'em afraid again

[@jimmotheus6151]

I remember in the 2008 collapse a news channel interviewed a French economist about austerity and why France wouldn’t do it. He responded “because those in power here remember if they try that we cut their damn heads off”. They instantly cut to commercial.

[@Purpletrident]

@@jimmotheus6151 I love that

[@ChickpeatheTortie]

I don't think you would like that very much as the French are rather leftish - ie., socialists a concept you americans loathe

[@tfh5575]

work 10 years ago was like boring most of the time. now i feel like i literally do 10 people’s jobs. there’s no downtime, and i often leave late and work a full day on saturday. it’s insane.

[@MakoTheMano]

I also dislike the portrayal of service jobs like being a cashier or cook as being 'easy' because like, in the united states we have to stand up for that entire time, and do the same repetitive task again and again, its like a factory but your station keeps moving, and you're expected to do it with a smile and with grace

[@la6136]

Service jobs are definitely harder than office jobs. It is unfortunate people working in offices who do way less work get paid more

[@MrMisanthrope84]

I've done standing jobs before, like retail. They murder your feet.

[@Strongdadlifting]

I use a lot more of my brain compared to a service job. But in no way what I do harder. I would agree.

[@bonelesscommunism4031]

there’s also the problem of everyone above and below you seeing your job as extremely easy and you’re expected to move at near inhuman speeds and be at multiple places at once

[@Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty]

Remember: These "economic conservatives" can go into debt for war and police budgets, but refuse to go into debt to give you a retirement or your children a future.

[@nathanbrady8529]

I absolutely hate how there's no rational conversations to be had about how we spend our money. Like, if you dare suggest we could take $1B from the $858B DoD budget to solve Jackson's water issue, you're a socialist commie that hates America and wants our troops dead.

[@RatPfink66]

They're Right libertarians at the bottom. Government shouldn't do things _for_ certain groups of people, but it _needs_ to do things _against_ certain groups of people.

[@MrDoBaKflips]

They don't even understand debt

[@josue.ortega]

And they proudly agree with that. "We need the police, we need the troops" but "no one deserves handouts". All for guys with guns to supress people, all against helping people.

[@Pivot35]

Police budgets? Half our police departments are understaffed.

[@saphironkindris]

People aren't doing jobs they want to do, they're doing jobs that they have to do. It really kills all passion for your craft when you show up, get intensely micromanaged for 8 hours to meet strict deadlines by an incompetent manager, only to have produced something completely intangible like reports that are emailed off to another department to somehow make them function better. You go home feeling like you've accomplished nothing, and were just stressed out all day. I'd actually probably kill to find a job with lax deadlines where people were all just working towards something that they wanted to happen because they're genuinely passionate about it. Less of an 'employee/employer' relationship and more of a team where everyone is on the same level and working towards the same thing.

[@erindaniel4053]

Is there a such thing as a job you want to do. I think that’s counterintuitive in itself. They are all wage labor. There is nothing intrinsic about them.

[@saphironkindris]

@@erindaniel4053 Sure there is, there are far fewer of them than there are jobs that people don't want to do though. Off the top of my head, I'd say the entertainment industry has quite a few jobs like that.

[@tomatochemist]

@@erindaniel4053 There is - self-employment and small business. A small number of partners invested in the same goal and lending their individual strengths to make the whole thing work.

[@akidodogstar5460]

@@erindaniel4053 I have always picked jobs I have liked, that is how I survived 40 years of work.

[@MickeyMouse-lm6zj]

luckily, under the system second thought wants such as the one used in north korea, you would work a job selected for you by the government that gives you absolutely no benefit in your life doing it whatsoever but hey, you get free (poorly constructed) housing

[@OriginalContent89]

This is the source of my depression. Things are only getting worse and all I can do is get my doctor to prescribe me meds so that I don't become "an hero" because I no longer have any hope

[@coppermoon4747]

Not to mention the way bosses are treating their employees. Bullies are everywhere and I mean active antagonism and interference that makes you look and feel horrible. It ruins productivity and purposely devalues people. It's bleak and many can't maintain basic survival needs.

[@nestout1728]

Imagine being okay with an abusive partner like we are okay with abusive jobs. Most people will sacrifice all relationships for a job that will leave you the second profit starts to look like it's going down. Every job I've had goes out of business. I'm broken because the shitty system is an abusive relationship that must be put down.

[@j.c.2240]

I feel a similar way, but replace "relationship" with "addiction". Most other addictions are taken seriously and rightly so, but addiction to work is romanticized and praised.

[@j.c.2240]

@Zaydan Alfariz Even when a person's behavior around work fits the textbook definition of addiction and they seek help, it's dismissed. But "gaming disorder" only requires that the patient spend, and I quote, 20 hours or more in a week on video games. That's... That's not a lot of time spent on games, at all. And doesn't factor in the other important aspects of addiction.

[@tmn8547]

Wow! Thought I was the only one who compared my company to an abusive relationship. Your comment is spot on!

[@hellothere-rr7kc]

@@j.c.2240 That's a lot of time spent on games, at nearly 3 hours a day. I can agree, though, that the work environment and the idea of the "grind" is getting so, so much worse. We should unite as a class and do something about it, to make the rich less rich and make the poor less poor, and to make it so that we receive much better treatment as workers.

[@toni2309]

And yet when you tell therapists that you find systematic issues to be triggering or traumatic, they tell you that you're not doing enough self care and that it's not real trauma.

[@maipai101]

Work is also forcing those out with disabilities, ADHD, Autism, and learning disabilities. 😢

[@yahiiia9269]

True.

[@jinxshadow5218]

I’ve heard that 85% of people with autism are unemployed.

[@shadowmystery5613]

Germany do be like - YOU HAVE TO WORK!!! EVEN FOR ALMOST FREE!!! Also germany: Oh nobody wants to employ you? You're just too stupid to work, that's why! _Here is your welfare transfer guaranteeing you eternal poverty even with work because your work obviously isn't worth enough!_

[@mafiousbj]

To be fair they were never too accommodating for them. Where I live only foreign companies (can remember MCdonalds) hired people with down syndrome. Others never cared

[@hugostiglitz491]

ADHD isn't a disability

[@PresidentEvil2]

I'm an on-site network technician. In my personal experience I can say over the last 5 years people have become so incredibly rude it's almost unbearable and I'm looking for a new work.

[@christina_cl]

It's crazy to think that a few decades ago, families could live comfortably off of only 1 average job salary and even own a house. Now, both men and women are working and we're having trouble affording anything. On top of that, we're supposed to also take care of a household, cook, clean, etc - which used to be a "full time" job on its own for the stay-at-home parent. No wonder everyone is burning out. I don't know what the solution is, but this is definitely not sustainable.

[@vxlley_flower5672]

I said this the other day, but I feel like after the pandemic, jobs are doubling down trying to make up for "lost time" and destroying the workers they have

[@jasonnugent963]

“BUT ITS EXPENSIVE TO CARE ABOUT OUR EMPLOYEES !!..”

[@sh4dowst3p]

They're also in some instances trying to recapture that record year that the pandemic created. My company was able to maintain its contract fees without performing the labor. They've been chasing that high ever since

[@WillowT442]

This is happening in education. Especially special education!!!

[@KalCounty]

​@@sh4dowst3p Infinite profit growth sure is a great ideal for companies to strive for, huh?

[@shawnallds5816]

I can't help but see that #1 you're correct but also this video smells of socialist ideas, an anti capitalism

[@TTF1997]

One thing I absolutely love with the general rise of the level of education among the working class is how more and more people are realizing how much they are getting scammed by the system.

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

And yet we can't come together to find a solution

[@FrankieFrak-Frakityfranker]

@@Dave_of_Mordor The more education and knowledge spreads among the populace, the more wisdom and questioning of society’s blights will occur.

[@wastedinspiration]

And the more the rich and powerful try to gut public education

[@michaeldautry]

#smartphones

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

@@FrankieFrak-Frakityfranker we are currently in this period you're describing. People are more educated now yet no one is solving the problem. Personally I think the issue is education. From my experience as a student just a little under 14 years ago, we weren't really taught to think, to solve problems, to think critically, to analyze. We were taught to remember, and from what I see from my younger cousins and nieces and nephews, nothing has changed.

[@newstyletelevision1923]

Biggest problem is the neo feudalism in most companies. The top management cashes in six or seven digit pay while the average worker earns less and less.

[@mermaid14f]

Remote work during the pandemic actually started helping this for at least some of us because even working long hours you could be in the comfort of your own home around your family and then they promptly took that away from most people with no reason and even had the gall to say it wasn’t a punishment.

[@mermaid14f]

@@Darth_._Vader when companies are making people waste time commuting to sit in their office with the door shut and do the exact same thing they were doing at home including still having most of the meetings on Zoom and TEAMs, where exactly is the benefit of being in person? A lot of companies have data that showed remote work increased morale and productivity. Also, if our jobs could that easily be taken over by AI or farmed out overseas, that would have already happened regardless of the pandemic or remote work and showing up in person would do absolutely nothing to stop it.

[@vault1021]

@@Darth_._Vadercommercial real estate shill spotted

[@vault1021]

@@mermaid14fmy Job is planning to bring everyone back into the office full time in January, and when I tell you they forced everyone to report back to our HQ because some rep from a reputable news outlet was stopping by, the amount of network traffic from the increased number of people using the internet in the office actually caused our virtual desktop system we use to crash, cussing us to halt productivity since IT had to reboot the system. Everyone has literally been complaining about how are they going to bring all of our employees back full time in-office if our own internet shit its’ brains out of one day of everyone coming back.

[@2ndviolin]

@@Darth_._Vader AI is not (yet) able do some desk jobs.

[@isnamthere4690]

All of existence is getting worse, not just work.

[@SiddharthSinghFiery69]

Exactly. It's only a matter of time before there's a global outburst over this. Social media is another BS that emerged in the 21st century. I hope there's a revolution against social media or Vladimir Putin loses his mind and starts the WW3.

[@Keanux12]

This world is a fucked up place.

[@mikey1584mf]

2nd renaissance incoming ☠️

[@fuxan]

Humanity kinda sucks and has for hundreds of years. I mostly blame imperialism.

[@johnnibaz6883]

Besides raising the legal retirement age, Macron decided to remove 4 out of 10 criterions of arduousness in the workplace. These things made workers collect more points for their retirement and therefore leave the job earlier in life. Those were : Carrying heavy weights, Strainuous postures, Mechanical vibrations, and Exposure to dangerous chemicals. And we saw some ministers going on TV making unbelievable claims like "Carrying heavy stuff is no longer a problem, employees have exoskeletons nowadays you know", another claimed that factories were full of "magic" and other things that could be laughable if only it didn't mean more people will die on the job because of their unbelievable arrogance and stupidity. Macron also stripped the law of the word "arduousness". Because ideologically, in his mind work can not be anything else but pure bliss and enjoyment. The man's hated widely. 94% of workers are opposed to his plan. He's a fookin ayatollah of neoliberalism but we'll have him curb his plans no matter how. Wish us luck, and please join the fight in your countries. Peace

[@jeremietellier3116]

La macronisation à l'américaine. Un fléau pour la France. Des 'créateurs de richesse' qui ne font que voler la valeur crée par le travail des gens en volant énormément d'argent. Organiser la production et les finances est un travail certes mais qui mérite au maximum d'être payé 3 à 4 fois plus pas 50 à 100 fois plus. Un pdg devrait gagner au maximum 200 000$ si ses employés gagnent 50 000$. Tu n'as pas besoin de plus de cela pour vivre décemment.

[@yamnayaseed356]

And yet the French had to pick between a neoliberal Rothschild banker and Putin’s girlfriend. It’s almost like every country has the same complaint about no politicians reflecting them in any way

[@halinaqi2194]

I'm from Canada, good luck m8, fuck that shit. Dude just tried to pull some next level shit on French people of all people, who are known for protesting and revolutions XD

[@grmpEqweer]

✊️✊️✊️

[@emilyb.8219]

Please don't let up over there 🙏 I want desperately to see workers prevail over the ruling class for once

[@cookeecutkk]

As an IT professional, now in the 4th decade of my career, I can distinctly identify two eras. The pre and post Agile era. Or as I like to put it, the “get things done” era vs the “tick boxes & attend meetings” era.

[@poormansracing]

Can confirn

yes, so true. I started working when I was 17. Now I'm 57 and I've never worked as hard as I do now. But my salary has not improved much in 50 years of work.

[@Nick84525]

It's time to change this FUCKING bullshit

[@loganMartinPreacher]

I'm 26 and just living in a tent and shoplifting every day. I wonder who of us is enjoying their retirement more? 😂

[@irenedeneb3500]

What I wonder is why companies are complaining that no one wants to work. Cause it seems like they both won't hire anybody (even for entry level) and when they do they are allergic to actually staffing anyone on a shift. I remember when a fast-food restaurant crew was like 20 people. Now it's around 4. All doing the work that 20 people used to do. Why are all these companies chronically understaffing their locations? It almost seems like they're liquifying their assets and squeezing their properties dry so they can run off with the money.

[@Darth_Insidious]

These companies must no longer see a future worth investing in. Their shareholders must think that the economic growth stagnating soon is inevitable, and that raking in as much cash as they can now gives them a better return than profiting off the growth of a healthy society.

[@teeada6858]

Employees are tge most expensive resource for most companies, so they decrease the workers so the shareholders have a bigger profit.

[@slowanddeliberate6893]

The 2-window drive thrus at fast food restaurants are almost all one-window drive thrus for years, now.

[@duckymomo7935]

What’s even worse is that the culture is all about changing jobs every 3 years so company loyalty is dead

[@diosamurcielaga9418]

Yup, they are hoping to run off to Mars

[@elizamartin4263]

Seriously wondering how you continue researching these ideas without feeling a permanent debilitating sense of anger towards our modern American societal framework/power structures

[@msiankid]

I can assure you, it’s global, not just American

[@TeodorLojewski]

Global phenomenon

[@TrashyBadBitchVivi]

He probably is very angry, he’s obviously not gonna be too public about it in order to keep his professional image

[@tibbygaycat]

Well it's a country built on genocide with an economy built on genocide and murder, guarded by a gang of pedophiles and child murderers that calls itself the police. It's hard not to be angry, its what we do with that anger that matters.

[@rlockwood88]

anger at the government not allowed. Must love Red or Blue. beep boop

[@isabellezoey]

I work in a library. I started about 1 1/2 years ago. For the first year, I loved talking to people and helping them with various things. Now I hate it. The entitlement and rudeness I encounter on the daily stresses me out beyond belief. Either people and their brats are getting worse by the minute, or I've been disillusioned.

[@BlackSaiyanKing]

One thing i really hate about the workplace is not only will the high staff members will accuse you in order to make themselves look good but they'll look for reasons to fire you even things you did in the past that aren't as serious including lie to get ahead of you

[@Yavin4]

List of costs that Americans have to pay for on their own: 1.Food 2.Clothing 3.Housing 4.Transportation (America is car dependent) 5.Health care 6.Education 7.Retirement The vast majority of jobs today will not pay you enough to afford all 7 of those items. Also note, I didn't include raising kids or taking care of elderly parents.

[@vikrantkulkarni1241]

Even in INDIA here regular even good quality job salaries are not able to pay for these necessities. I guess Capitalism is fucking whole of planet.

[@heathersmith4042]

@Zaydan Alfariz the difference is that america is car dependent. the cost of buying your own car, handling the regular upkeep, and also having car insurance (mandatory) is huge, vs a ticket for public transportation

[@roveplanteater6738]

​@Zaydan Alfariz there is no public transit where I live in America, and my insurance alone is $800 per year, gas around $720, and general repairs around $500-1000. I only make 12k per year .-. The car itself was $4,700.... and all of this is about as cheap as it gets for a reliable car here.

[@rgn87654]

@@heathersmith4042 Are you sure? If everyone was dependent on public transportation, they would just gouge us with ticket prices. A 2.50 bus pass would be 10 dollars.

[@AlmaVasquezjr]

Only Hispanics will be able to have kids in the USA, because of multiple generations living in one house.

[@yahiiia9269]

America doesn't see minors, it sees miners.

[@cattibingo]

The children yearn for the mines

[@alpaca6575]

So does the rest of the world

[@yahiiia9269]

@@alpaca6575 At least the mines are safer than the schools XD Amirite?

[@alpaca6575]

@@yahiiia9269 LMAO can't argue with that

[@SPDYellow]

Given what modern-day work is like, you kind of roll your eyes at 90s film/TV depictions of so-called dystopian office jobs, like in Fight Club, because however much they may have sucked back then, most were still making enough to afford something resembling a decent existence: the bills get paid, they don't live in fear of one unexpected expense, and :gasp: they actually have a little money left over to enjoy life in their non-working hours.

[@dimitrikusnetsov8731]

I remember dreading that... only to be faced with a situation even worse.

[@HouseofWhop1917]

Maybe it's just retail, or the places I worked at, but sometimes I go into work and have to ask if our society is on the verge of collapse. The stockrooms, looks like a landfill, but the business refuses to provide the hours to fix it. The sale's floor looking like it got vandalized, regardless of if it was or not, because one person is stuck on the register and has 50 other tasks to do. Then everyone hates each other because everything is falling apart while management hires 10 new people who quit day one. Then claims no one wants to work and says we have to work harder.... without providing the hours to do so.... and instead cut hours because we don't sell enough goods because it's all in the landfills we call a stockrooms

[@la6136]

This honestly just sounds like terrible management. The managers need to be fired they don’t know what they are doing.

[@v_the_engineer]

I had to stop watching your content last year because of my mental health and just general burnout of life. I’m so impressed in the growth of your channel in the last few months! Looking forward to supporting your work again!

[@Ascend777]

can't blame you. everyone needs a break from the doom and gloom.

[@JeffMonsoon]

@@Ascend777 I feel you and OP. What really helped me out was watching Yugopniks 'Why leftists can't enjoy anything'

[@vascoapolonio2309]

This channel helps me to fuel my convictions in Comunism and despise of Capitalism.

[@Klatchan]

Same, stopped watching Hakim and the boyz for a while and came back like 'damn!'

[@user-cg6fd4in1d]

I'm suffering from burnout and work is the source of burnout. I'm glad you're better.

[@jonathanrichter3184]

I’m taking accounting as a freshman in high school. And my accounting teacher literally said that labor unions are the reason for our skyrocketing inflation. Because they wanted more pay so others wanted more pay and the cycle goes on. It was sad how nobody questioned that, or asked him to further explain himself. I would, but he’ll do the classic avoid the question and say he needs to move on.

[@Purplenpinkk]

Someone should have introduced him to the topic of fiat currency 🤣🤣

[@ericadams2719]

When I was in high school, the economics teacher said, 'we don't need unions anymore because governments have laws to protect us,' and everyone believed him then, too

[@halinaqi2194]

I wanted to study game dev in university, but due to university's being money hungry, they force you to take business classes as well, extending a 2 year program to a 4 year program. Taking these business classes is the most insufferable thing ever because I loathe every second about every second of it is about making money, nothing about it was every about making human life better. What do you do with your profits? Make more money. It feels disgusting taking that class because as a person who is studying game dev, I just want have a positive impact on other peoples lives, give them something to look forward to something to inspire them, learning business was never somethin I was interested in, and it seriously made me more stressed studying in my program. Trying to be academically suscceful on a topic you aren't interested in is difficult, especially one you hate.

[@nobody8328]

And no mention of the suits making $15,000,000/year, of course. That's never a problem for anyone 😒

[@radiationshepherd]

Teachers trying to push their conservative beliefs like they always have 🙄

[@mr.theking2484]

I used to work at McDonalds for a few months, and one time, I started having a panic attack at the start of my 7 hour shift. I asked if I could have a break early so I could calm down (and also do my work better), and I was told no. I ended up not getting a break that day, despite me begging for one, and even got a pay cut for not taking a legally required break. That was the first time I've had a panic attack last more than 30 minutes, and it lasted 8 hours.

[@sammencia7945]

Boomers and Gen Xers did not have panic attacks.

[@la6136]

@@sammencia7945Boomers also destroyed the world and every generation after them so what is your point?

[@wonderwheel80s]

@@sammencia7945 False.

[@beautifulgorgeousman]

@@sammencia7945yo mama

[@annberlin5811]

Wow you could have died from that

[@srdking079]

I just straight up quit a job recently wanting me to take care of over 30 patients by myself. No laws on the state I live in to ratio it’s ridiculous. I got tired of the neglect and watching patients basic needs being ignored because of under staffed so bad. Not worth my license and the drama at the place. I complained and went off about it and they came at me over it. No one on the floor to take care of all the patients but dozens of people working in the office billing their insurance and trying to bring more patients in for $$$ when the ones they got go with neglect and without. Absolutely disgusting Nope, Good Bye!

[@user-lu6yg3vk9z]

Coperization of Medicine. The bottom line. I am hearing Physicians are being replaced with mid-level providers.

[@Early2000sCringe]

They switched us from a 4-day week to a standard 5-day 8-5 week and it's KILLING ME. I don't have time to rest! This is not sustainable for my physical and mental health. Abolish 40 hour weeks

[@spencervance8484]

My job has been making me do 6 eight hour shifts since christmas (2022)...today (good friday 2023) is the start of my first 3 day weekend.

[@melanieg6957]

I thought the standard work week was 10 hour days (no breaks) 50 hour week and occasional Saturdays. Consider yourself lucky. For now.

[@melanieg6957]

@@elfrjz no doubt it's MUCH worse there.

[@sherlyn.a]

8 hours of work a day seems doable-that’s 16 hours of free time, half of which you can spend sleeping. Once you go beyond that, it starts getting a little scary.

[@hellothere-rr7kc]

@@sherlyn.a You are not considering commuting, cooking, eating, hygiene, and maintenance of a house. Combine those factors together, and more than likely you get roughly 3-4 hours of free time. This is still decent, but it's much less than what you are talking about.

[@oldguy4057]

When I first started working, in 1965, I was proud to be a professional (engineer) who didn't need to belong to a union. I soon realized the error of my thinking. Unionization pulled me up also. You are right on in your video.

[@istvanpraha]

On the other hand, many of us have been in unions that don't do much except protect your worst coworkers

[@Izelor]

It's what I've been saying the last years: ever since profit became the goal and not the means to a goal for companies, jobs were doomed. It all ends up to the question I've been asking and no one can answer effectively: assuming that a company acquires all the money, what's next? There is literally no reason for a company or individual to amass this much money, if it ends up in the CEOs pockets.

[@mecanuktutorials6476]

Great point. The government is just going to break the company up due to its anti-competitiveness and thereby keep this charade going.

[@yearginclarke]

That's what I've been saying for like 20 years. I started looking around at how things work and questioning the status quo in my teen years. These companies make so much money, so like where does it all go? Why do they need more, more, MORE? I could live very happily for the rest of my life with what some of those bigtime CEO's make in a short period of time.

[@poormansracing]

The stock market and its consequences

[@joebyron2984]

It’s a thing I’ve been asking since my bank job years… assuming we get all the accounts in this place/city what next? Like what the point? Why all this? Of course then I didn’t understand things like today… but yeah… 😒

[@xotl2780]

If you bring this to certain people past a certain age point (some of whom are actual employers), they'll whine to you about how your generation doesn't want to work hard and that you should shut up and do your job. Of course they can't accomplish anything without your help.

[@Killachamper256]

I actually believe people want to work as a part of fulfillment in life, in doing something that is more than themselves. The thing is, many of the jobs people work have little meaning to them: it's just a paycheck. They also do so much more work than what they get paid for.

[@Nick84525]

Time for all jobs to provide their workers a living wage have mandatory paid vacations and work less hours

[@shareefpeoples5317]

​@@Nick84525 i get 20 pto days and i feel soo sad for other americans. They work soo much to get maybe a week and a half max of paid vacation.

[@fuzzytop4746]

I’m fine without working y’all can just work for me

[@matthewlawton9241]

Look, hard reality is the kinds of things people want to do are bullshit. We can't have a whole society of rock stars and painters. But the jobs people don't want to do should compensate well, and then they'll be DONE well, despite the fact that they're undesirable. So no, I reject your argument that this is about personal fulfillment. It's about compensation, pure and simple. Capitalism has made the worker a product and that cannot continue.

[@erindaniel4053]

This idea is toxic. There is nothing intrinsic about wage labor. Was there anything intrinsic about slavery? Essentially, that’s what we have; wage slavery. Let me explain, wage slavery is a term used to describe a situation where a person's livelihood depends on wages or a salary, especially when the wages are low and person has few realistic chances of upward mobility. Do most people have a choice to quit their job tomorrow? No, because they would lose their house, their family, everything. You do not have the privilege to choose whether or not you participate in this scheme. Therefore, we are all wage slaves. Please, stop believing there is anything to be gain of intrinsic value here.

[@jess57565]

i recently graduated high school and can attest to how often child labor laws are broken. while talking to my friends and working myself, i discovered that it is much more commonplace for them *to* be broken than to not.

[@ChristysChannelYall]

When people work their butts off, don’t get paid properly and this happens for years, they simply lose hope and motivation. I’m 50 and clearly in this zone. It’s depressing and I just don’t give a sh*t anymore. I work the bare minimum that I have to to get by. My body hurts as I’m a small person and my job can be quite physically demanding. I’m a nurse so I do my job well because it isn’t my patient’s fault and they deserve good care. I just work the minimum hours I can to pay the bills. I don’t even have health insurance because the price is insane, more than my rent. I’m just treading water till I die. There is literally no hope that I can get out of debt. I do not own a home and never will.

[@vivianriver6450]

Your remarks about how work is becoming "more intense" remind me of the old Calvin and Hobbes cartoon where Calvin's dad remarks, "Technology doesn't make life easier. It makes life more harassed." Also, thanks for pointing out that jobs can be mentally intense, as well. I write computer code for a living and I think a lot of people have no idea how taxing this kind of work is. Douglas Crockford once said that he imagines that there are few occupations where workers make so many important decisions on a regular basis as we do in software development. (Yes, I know that brain surgeons exist😀)

[@fleshytrash]

And the coding culture is annoying they expect you to spend lots of your free time learning and researching

[@gustavishmichelle3575]

Yess. My mom worked as a nurse in a veterans hospital. She had to retire due to a disability she acquired by doing years of administrative work there. She recently told me that her boss and colleagues used to bully her into getting more workloads because they believed mom was just sitting around doing nothing while they had to run the floors. Very unfortunate how people never want to recognize the impacts the brain can take from working. It explains how theres so much stigma around invisible illnesses.

[@hiflyer000]

I'm also a software developer and can completely vouch for how mentally taxing the job can be. Having to deal with deadlines, insufficient or incorrect requirements, poor coding from others, etc. can make things extremely difficult. This doesn't even account for the usual white collar stuff like incompetent management, office politics, constantly changing policies and priorities, and the ever present threat of being laid off. I've worked blue collar jobs in my youth and while physically taxing, none of them were nearly as mentally taxing as my current job.

[@mickeyg7219]

@@fleshytrash And they're getting oversaturated anyway. I'm in a community where people that knew how to code are abundant, most don't get a job at a tech company, but rather that they freelanced to make things like game mods - and people that are trying to commission them are trying to cheapskate as much as possible. The burnout rate is very high among them. I'm pretty sure that all those individual responsibility "solutions" are not something groundbreaking, desperate people have all been trying that already. If there's an easy solution, everyone would already been taking it.

[@icedirt9658]

I’ve done manual labor and desk jobs. Guess which one left me with energy to exercise at the end of an 8 hour workday? That’s right. The manual labor job.

[@Teratoma..]

I worked at wal-mart for almost 10 years. I only ever got 2 raises yet it felt like every week we would get some new pointless responsibility from management.

[@pbassassinz8097]

Wage-mart

[@foxybohv7732]

Multi billion dollar companies seem to enjoy and exercise their right to stomp out your rights

[@4rnorthwest]

You lasted 10 years!!!? THERE!? wwwwwWHYYYYY!!!?🤨

[@jpalberthoward9]

Did you have to go to the motivational meetings where they clap and stomp and chant how great Walmart is? I was at Walmart one time and I walked past a room where they were doing that. It was creepy.

[@madmax6662]

gotta pay bills some how. @@4rnorthwest

[@donkeypunch5138]

I just started and quit a job after a week most recently because of stuff like this The first red flag I got was the explicit warning against sharing what I was being paid to my co workers. This tells me people there are getting screwed over for what they do and they would rather hide it than pay that or those individuals the wage they actually deserve. The only time transparency is an issue is when there are things someone can get in trouble for if things weren't hidden and that's shady activity that shows how much a company cares for its people. The second red flag was the fact the entire time I was there I'm hearing from EVERYONE how bad it is. How PETTY this company is. Usually I tone this stuff out and take it with a grain of salt but I mean things were made very evident to me by management themselves. First off, they wanted us to work on our Saturday off to EARN thanksgiving off. This was just a regular ass warehouse job, could totally go a day without operations for thanksgiving but they simply feel for us to have the day with our families we gotta give them our time now lol. Then they had the audacity to come out and round everyone up and say that they were gonna have a thanksgiving lunch for us that Saturday and then wanted us to chip in on it. The third thing was the micro managing. A ton of dumbass rules meant to be easy to miss and it gives management ammo to use against you later. Little things that are super easy to forget. Think of it as unneeded hurdles you gotta jump to do little stupid shit. I coudl tell its not a career. Its a job. Nobody there is happy. Management is cheap and they suck. No point in wasting my time with them.

[@irrealislife]

The idea that you should borrow money to develop the skills necessarily to make someone else filthy rich while you scratch out a living is mind blowing to me. You use to get paid while being trained on the job, now you borrow to train yourself and sometimes even have to work for free in internships to get on the job experience before you can start out making next to nothing.

[@CrniWuk]

There is also a real push by some companies and politicans (Mostly GOP) to get child labour back in Iowa.

[@grmpEqweer]

It'll mean they can do without undocumented workers.

[@mooseears9849]

Oh, it already exists in all of America

[@emilyb.8219]

I'm sure it will pass, it's got the backing of major employer lobbying groups, and this state is in a regressive race to the bottom currently

[@Solarexistence]

I had a game dev business on steam releasing my first game in 2015. The steam system forced you to basically release a new game every 6 months to break even. The only reason we could survive was because my business was located in a 3rd world country... We have been told so many lies about being your own boss and doing your dream job that I really consider just to quit technology and stay in the woods far from this sick system... We are just spinning our wheels in the mud, the harder we work the more they take and it is just getting worse. Time te reject this bs and take our souls back, this is not what human life is supposed to be...

[@christianedwards9025]

Can I come live in the woods with you too. F America and corporations, I want my farm and wild foraged goods.

[@Solarexistence]

@@christianedwards9025 lets go

[@AstroRobyn]

Fellow dev here, and man what a nightmare it is to be one when you have to be a: business owner, accountant, marketer, event organizer and manager all on top of making a game that only gets buried by all the content coming out. Not to mention the expectations of how big your game should be, but that you should just automatically get rich and famous and working on the next project as soon as your last one is released. It's devastating. Ready for that cabin.

[@christianedwards9025]

@AstroRobyn I can imagine the burnout and feelings of being unappreciated, compounding more so as you are given less and less freedom which each project.

[@MrMisanthrope84]

Games Industry went full monster mode this year aswell. There's a whole website dedicated to tracking the layoffs now.

[@scottgrey3337]

As someone who fully entered the workforce in 2021, I've had the double whammy of struggling to find the work experience "entry-level" positions keep demanding in the field I want to have a career in, and slogging through draining jobs in the meantime. I worked in retail, never took a day off, got promoted to a supervisor and got paid... two dollars over the minimum wage. If my time and labor wasn't enough to make that look ridiculous, then at least the fact that I double-counted the safe every day. *They were paying someone who handled thousands of dollars just slightly above minimum wage.* I also got a glimpse into the corporate culture and how everyone up there was ready to backstab each other while not understanding why their minimum wage employees weren't putting in more effort. I ended up ducking out, and into a better paying job (Post Office), but even that's a grueling 6-day work week. I've been saving more money than most can in hopes of finding something better, but the most damning thing about the economy is that there is nothing better. No job out there pays well, none of them are fulfilling. We've been pushed to work just to meet basic needs and now the ultra-rich thinks even that shouldn't be guaranteed.

[@cesarchavez3247]

I recently left my job as an engineer because I was living paycheck to paycheck, scrubbing more toilets than actually doing my job but finally quit when I got injured and my boss claimed “small business, cant help you”, he always told me “if i dont like what I get then quit”… I recently had to accept a position (as an engineer) making less money, because “at least youre getting benefits this time” Im really glad i worked my ass off and lived in my car for a degree that means im living paycheck to paycheck

[@angrydragonslayer]

Where are you to be living like that as an engineer? San francisco?

[@la6136]

@@angrydragonslayerMany engineers don’t make as much as people think. A lot of STEM careers are like that but boomers have always pushed the lie that those careers are a get rich quick scheme. Times have changed.

[@chrisgaona2017]

Lucky for me work has gotten better! I’ve gone from working 10 hours with a day off every 13 days to working 12-16 hours with a day off every 10 days. Finally an employer who can trim as much of my unproductive hours out of my life! This is truly normal and nothing is wrong at all!

[@LucinaMeow]

Jeez are u serious?

[@arkiplayer3755]

@Zaydan Alfariz maybe in automated economy First auto economy will be Japan from their ageing crisis and plenty of wealth there for companies to sell to

[@natesamadhi33]

And to recognize your grueling, hardwork, here's a $5 Starbucks giftcard. #BestPlacestoWork !!

[@chrisgaona2017]

@@fifteen8 surprisingly enough it’s USPS. SO I have benefits, but since I’m an assistant not all of them. Also many regulars just got paycuts. Look up rural carrier pay cuts. It’s wild.

[@chrisgaona2017]

@@LucinaMeow quality brought to you by the usps.

[@elizabethreyes9410]

I’m definitely working more now. Work at a mortgage company and we are seeing the industry completely slow down. They laid off a bunch of workers and the ones who remain, like me, are left to do double the work. So frustrating I can’t even get more money for the extra work I do now

[@PrestoJacobson]

So if they need you, how could they force you to do double work? Why not "quiet quit?"

[@ahmedal5769]

Haha I worked at a mortgage company too they got rid of me because I was one of the more outspoken workers they did a survey for employee satisfaction and I answered honestly week later I was fired 🤣

[@PrestoJacobson]

@@ahmedal5769 the no union life I guess🥺

[@ahmedal5769]

@@PrestoJacobsonmy second day I got stares and dirty looks just from asking if there was a union

[@fuzzytop4746]

Probably because we have politicians trying everything to not go into a “recession” while the feds are trying to get into a recession. (Rip off a bandaid) but now we will have a horrible scar

[@15_heidune72]

I feel like we're repeating history. At this point, I'd not be surprised if World Depression II will happen.

[@noobynoob138]

It kinda is happening already. We just don't call it that before it's passed.

[@SC-gw8np]

We've been in a depression since at least 2020.

[@zlpatriot11]

I was forced to quit a previous job because my employer refused to follow the ADA and accommodate my needs. Instead of helping me, they drastically cut my hours in retaliation. I agree, work is only getting worse: longer hours, deliberate short staffing, stagnant wages, lack of worker protections, deregulation, corporate consolidation, and much more have contributed to the situation we are in today.

[@grmpEqweer]

I don't bring up my pain issues, I just take over-the-counter stuff. Now I'm trying to find a job where I can sit down part time.

[@roveplanteater6738]

I also was forced to quit due to failure to follow ADA. I physically can not stand for long hours (marfans syndrome) and the job refused to accommodate that. Now I have a much better job, but I make next to no money.

[@johnfisher8401]

that sucks everyone is running into this issue, fortunately (maybe im lucky) I have never run into this issue, but ive also only worked at small and privately owned companies. Fuck the corporations, join something small

[@nwatson2773]

I have felt like work was getting worse since 2013. I almost had a nervous breakdown due to the stress! The country is hostile to the working class.

[@sammencia7945]

2013 is precisely when The Woke Generation started to ruin society. YOUR EXPECTATIONS CHANGED. Not work. You are all lazier.

[@user-mm8vw1ow1x]

Evil doesn't have a leg to stand on without stupid people buying in. We know what it is and we keep doing it. That makes it our fault

[@beaubiden9293]

@@user-mm8vw1ow1x truth

[@l.matthewblancett8031]

i have the same job title my dad did at my age, back in the 80s. only he had a secretary and made the same i make - WITHOUT INFLATION. i still dont own a home. he had two, a boat, a bmw, and 3 kids he sent to college.

[@vladimpaler3498]

It is horrible. As an older employee, it has gone very badly downhill. ERG and the latest trendy business school (think SAFE Agile) make everyone miserable. Every week is another training class and meetings. My response has been to reduce my productivity and just not care. Because I have been around a while and most others have retired, I have some flexibility before I am terminated. If they do terminate me, I will retire. Screw these clowns.

[@TheAndSlem]

I'm a medical student in Brasil and I keep hearing doctors complain about the shrinking and worsening physician job market. It's weird to see them spot the problem, but.not realize that they are part of the exploited class, albeit a well paid one

[@theold1.]

yes

[@ZacksRockingLifestyle]

It also doesn’t help that the pharmaceutical model, the “pill for every ill” model is wrong and only serves to help junk “food” companies, through things like Tufts University calling lucky charms cereal a superfood, and coca cola being able to call their product healthy so long as calories are not over-consumed, while slamming red meat as carcinogenic. That’s another fun one. Andre, are you familiar with the metabolic, mitochondrial (with epigenetic factors) model of cancer that’s challenging the genetic disorder view of cancer?

[@kattz9051]

Same with engineers. Yes we are very well paid, but it's part of incentives to keep us from unionizing against things like longer work hours or unsafe product roll outs (remember the submarine with a Logitech controller incident?)

[@anon2427]

Doctors here in america are often the ones doing the exploiting, or at least hospitals and insurance companies are

[@dieglhix]

Logitech hardware is REALLY good to be honest@@kattz9051

[@GeorgeGlass298]

As much as I love your videos and absolutely agree with everything you're saying, they are so depressing because I know that capitalism isn't going anywhere during my lifetime unless something massively drastic happens. People are too enamored with their mass-produced dollar store word art to open their eyes and realize what they're doing to themselves.

[@gapsule2326]

I think people are just waiting for someone else to start then come in when its safer and easier. Most people in America dont want to risk their jobs or rock the boat.

[@furiousdestroyah9999]

@@daniellarson3068 Theoretically it's possible, but Capitalism heavily enourages this, so abolishing the system entirely seems more realistic than hoping that people would start thinking about the collective in a world where you need to eat another to survive (Capitalism)

[@GeorgeGlass298]

Capitalism can't work because of human nature. There seems to be a point with human beings where once they have so much power and so much money they turn into a monster. They are incapable of doing something for the greater good.

[@rakkatytam]

Then don't go down that same path, save your money, and try to make a difference. There are things you can do. Walk forward knowing you will never see the fruits of your labor, but that maybe a thousand years from now, someone will

[@rakkatytam]

​@@daniellarson3068 No, policy under capitalism can never be representative of the people. It necessitates private property and private property is only private by nature of excluding other people, in our case less than 9/10ths of the population. The state only exists to exert this oppressice policy for one class, the bourgeoisie, over another, the proletariat. Captialism is not a beast that can be reined it, it is a beast that needs to be put down

[@luwigi4630]

Maximizing profits while minimizing expenses. Demanding more while paying less. You can already see the effects this has on the poor. We're so tired...

[@Sin_City_Guitar]

I am 36 years old and I want to be honest every job I’ve ever had sucks . Literally it’s all dead end crap and the jobs I want to get into are all oversaturated .

[@K._Red]

I've worked full time+ since having kids in 2007. Every single day has been a depressing struggle. And I did it all just to get by. I will never own a home.

[@teipkep]

Because government is keeping you on your limit.

[@CrniWuk]

@@teipkep How is the government keeping him on his limits when companies pay him for his work? I am not saying, the government isn't at fault here but I somewhow always wonder how there is only the government in this narrative when we have to talk about inequality.

[@K._Red]

@@teipkep Exactly

[@henryhardtits]

You're strong af. Keep your chin up, my friend. Solidarity ✊️

[@K._Red]

@@CrniWuk sounds reasonable to me, definitely blame to go around

[@austinluther5825]

I've only recently been able to land a decent job that doesn't treat me like garbage. And I'm a molecular laboratory specialist. Privatized healthcare feels criminal. And almost everyone I've ever worked with feels that way. It's sickening that I literally have to double-check the patient's insurance on the requisition so I don't get fired for running a test that their insurance doesn't cover.

[@mbeecher9921]

I've had to spend a decade working to become a certain kind of specialist in my field to get to the point where getting rid of me is more expensive and will cause major production stoppage if they get rid of me. I also shirk training new hires as most of my strength has come from a lot of work on my own and I'm not just going to hand that to some 20 year old who asks for 50% of my wages. Every job I've left I've deleted all my independently written scripts and manuals off of corp hardware. I don't get paid bonuses to develop tools for an employer.

[@austinluther5825]

@ironglaciers OMG, it really was awful, right? Labs were already understaffed and understocked and the pandemic took it all up to 11. I remember reading an article in late 2020 that actually talked about lab workers and how we were understaffed, overworked, undersupplied, and underpaid but no one cared because no one sees us. I mean, that's always the case but it was nice for one article to point out that these PCRs don't run themselves.

[@austinluther5825]

@ironglaciers We never reused the plates, that sounds like a nightmare. We saved plates by doing batch testing. 4 samples mixed and done in one well. If it's negative; they're all negative and we saved some plate space. Positive and we rerun them all individually. And we also kept running out of tips. You know those little crap squeeze bulb disposable 3 mL pipettes? I had set of marked pipettes that I used a micropipette to on with water to find the amounts I needed. 25 uL, 50 uL, etc. Then I would pull and do a comparison. Pulling 10 uL with a damn 3 mL squeeze bulb.

[@OriginalContent89]

As someone whose job it is to get insurance companies to pay their bills, insurance is definitely the root of all evil

[@sten260]

if you think private healthcare is bad you should work in public healthcare, that's even worse and the wage is 50% lower

[@alexandre97843]

The biggest issue in our world regarding work is "having to work". We are all forced into working, for someone or ourselves, to pay bills for essential things, such as food and rent. We are all 100% slaves of this system, each to different degrees, but slaves nonetheless. The day we change this, either naturally, peacefully or forcefully, we will be able to work IF we want, then choose what we want to do, granted our basic necessities are automatically satisfied. Not at all saying this is going to be easy, but the fact is that if it doesn't change we will keep doing this crap forever, as it has been for centuries.

[@an5683]

I always wanted to move to America, but lately the US scares me…

[@ledwysdelgado7304]

Scares everyone.

[@jakekaywell5972]

If you value your health and sanity, you'll go literally anywhere but the US.

[@themercer4972]

Money does not buy happiness. Money does buy security; the freedom of NOT living precariously from one paycheck to the next. This is the key step towards happiness. If you are free from the constant worry and stress, then you can find what does make you happy.

[@la6136]

Money definitely buys happiness. I despise that original saying “money doesn’t buy happiness”. Money gets you freedom, experiences that make you happy, more opportunities and improved quality of life. That sounds like happiness to me.

[@piku5637]

As a disabled person with AuDHD, PTSD+PBD, depression, I barely get through my 22-25 hours a week as a warehouse worker. I can handle less work now than I did as a dishwasher and prep cook in my 20s. I’m 31. I literally cannot physically or mentally handle a 40+ hour work week even if I wanted to do that, which I don’t even if I wasn’t disabled. We should be able to actually enjoy our lives and work according to our ability without getting burntout. It’s not that I don’t want to work, it’s that people particularly disabled people can only handle so much. Society should seriously be more like “From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs”. We have a union, yet we still aren’t paid a living wage. This is in Canada. Canada is really not that great and it’s getting worse for poor workers and especially disabled people. Things need to change bigly. We need GL/UBI and a higher minimum wage. Even if or when we’d get UBI in Canada, despite my disabilities I’d still chose to work the job I currently have because I’m not ‘lazy’, I’d still want to be contributing some type labour to society even if I could technically do nothing. I just don’t want to be overwhelmed. We need to treat workers and disabled and neurodivergent people better. I believe I could tolerate an 8 hour 4 day work week, but I’d still prefer to work 5-6 hours a day four days a week for my health.

[@filippo8189]

I hear you, man. I used to be able to work much harder before I developed severe OCD. I just can’t sustain that pace anymore. I’m on four different medications, do CrossFit 3x week, sleep at least 8 hours a night and even doing all of that I can barely keep up with my responsibilities. I was lucky enough to be able to study biology in college (finishing my PhD now), but there is no way I’ll be able to keep up with the pace of academia. I have to transition out of academia entirely because I simply can’t compete with people who work 12-16 hours a day including weekends. These rhythms are already inhumane for neurotypical people, but are just simply impossible for some of us. My obsessions would quickly spiral out of control if I forced myself to keep up (and I know that because I have tried!). There just seems to be no room for people like us who could work 30 hours a week and still contribute to society. Any position that is even mildly intellectually stimulating requires 60+ hours a week and I’m sorry I wouldn’t feel great flipping burgers (no disrespect to people who do) after 13+ years dedicated to research. The choice seems to be between a 60 hour week that would cripple my mental health and would become unsustainable very quickly or the trash. There can’t be balance when one side of the scale demands all of you. I guess we have to carve out our own path…somehow.

[@scotttatertot69]

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" ~Our boy Karl

[@bwofficial1776]

"Real Communism has never been tried before. It'll work this time, trust me."

[@grmpEqweer]

I have chronic sinusitis, which you wouldn't _think_ is that big a deal, but I can randomly get pretty serious fatigue dropped on me like a bag of hammers. Also, brain fog. Oh, my current job requires standing, and I have unrelated pain issues from standing a whole shift. I really like my job, but to work 40 hours, I need to be able to sit down for part of my shift. ...The stress of getting another job gave me a flare-up of fatigue/ brain mulch symptoms.🤦 Annoying.

[@You.are.correct.however]

@@grmpEqweer ok

[@joshuawright722]

For me there's no boundaries or respect of one's downtime. Out of office doesn't mean out of office anymore and work emails, messages via teams and text messages still come flying in 24/7. Especially in my position in my industry of transportation. While I received a raise last year in December, I am still underpaid by industry standards for my Management position in Customer Solutions. Not to mention my Senior Director was abruptly fired, they cut jobs and are expecting us to take on more work remotely in the office. I am thankfully credit card debt free but I had to get a new family vehicle and my mortgage still stands as well as the costs of everything going up. It's also hard to keep my team's morale up when the company is no longer incentivizing them to go above and beyond.

[@buri.bii3]

I had this experience in my old role as admin assistant, managers would call out of hours even if I was on annual leave or sick (as I was the key person who knew where everything was). I essentially did the work of 3 and was very stressed and had little cut off from work. I left my job and now work as a receptionist, some days are quiet and others are busy but the main thing is I'm less stressed and also know that nobody contacts me after work (as I don't bring my work laptop home). If I am out of office and receive emails, I only see them when I get back and if there are no appointments after a certain time, management allows me to go home early.

[@TheOldMan1911]

One boss told me once as he said the following “you see that 120,000 dollar car I wanna thank you for your hard work and because of your commitment and dedication I was able to buy that car and enjoy it” hopefully next year I’ll get another bonus, so keep up the good work!!!😢😢😢

[@R3I8D]

Can we get a video on how Reagen even while dead is still actively ruining our lives?

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

One of the trio did that vid

[@ianh1504]

illuminaughti just did

[@cattibingo]

"We told them it would trickle down, lol"

[@ilovecoffeev]

​@@cattibingoI mean, it did. Unfortunately, "it" isn't wealth....

[@grim524]

I say this all the time. We are still living in the Reagan Era.

[@pokebronyborn]

Started with UPS in 2017. 5 years later the biggest difference is _consistantly fewer workers_ on my shift. Same amount of work or more thanks to the pandemic introducing many to online shopping, but less workers on shift with less training. Half a dozen listed as "on-call", but whenever someone gets sick and calls off? No one gets called in to cover the absence. It's bullshit. The only reasons I haven't quit are the healthcare benefits and almost decent wage, which only exist because of our Union. I'm ready to tear down society and start over.

[@corvus1970]

I'm so sorry to hear that. I've worked in retail and customer-service positions for over 25 years, and the deliberate short-staffing isn't just a retail problem, it's one that has metastasized across almost the whole of the American workforce. With retail, it's very much what you are experiencing: a complete lack of any redundancy in staffing, which means when someone calls off (as they SHOULD if they are feeling ill), it's almost impossible to get someone to fill in. And that's just one aspect of the problems it creates. Corporations slash payroll because it's an easy, predictable way to bump up short-term profits. As a result, you have fewer people doing more and more work. It is, however, ultimately self-defeating, because you're not only making things harder for your employees, but also the customer, who has to deal with disorganized and understocked shelves, fewer available workers to assist them if they need help, and long lines at self-checkouts because many retail stores don't have dedicated cashiers anymore. Hell, the Harvard Business school wrote about how self-defeating and short-sighted it is around a decade ago, and yet it keeps happening. As they put it, these corporations are stepping over dimes to pick up pennies with this approach. The worst example of this I have personally experienced was watching PETCO slash payroll, because that not only impacts the employee and the customer, but also the live animals within the stores, because there's less time to dedicate to feeding, enclosure/tank cleaning and maintenance, animal socialization, and basic animal health care. It's all truly disheartening and dire, and unless something is done to course-correct soon, we're in line for absolute disaster.

[@stevenmaswabi-zz9kt]

The only huge problem with AI is that people's survival is tied to having a job that will be replaced with an AI. Sooner or later, millions of people camping out in tents on the highway because their is nothing for them to do so there is no excuse for the Oligarchs to give people the things they need for their survival. In short, we have too much shit but we are running out of shit for these people to do

[@josephineramirez2826]

Children should not be working and working in dangerous situations. When I was growing up I remember my brother work as a paperboy and not as meat packing worker. If I was raising my kids today I would be up in arms about this.

[@approachingapoapsis]

worked in a factory and a sandwich shop. both were abysmal. heatstroke in one, panic attacks in the other. lost blood in both from the pace. work sucks and will end you if it saves them a dime. be excellent to eachother. and godspeed to anyone in a unionization effort.

[@axeltech9914]

If everyone starts laying flat, stopped consuming as much there will be changes.

[@pastdue7170]

Good luck people love to talk. Action always takes effort.

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

Jobs are insanity. I just cant do it. Something always happens to ruin my work experience. The boss doesnt pay me or the coworkers start hating me for some reason.

[@modemmark421]

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the Corporate states of America and to the Republicans for which it stands, one nation under debt, easily divisible, with liberty and justice for *Oil.*

[@Perseus5]

I hope you don’t mind but im definitely saying this for the rest of my life until i see a change in this country.

[@superpieman5773]

And what have the dems done while in office, it's been 2 and a half years, both are bad, both don't care about you

[@leanysealvarado7499]

We the people of the United Snakes, in order to form perfect disunion, abolish justice, discourage domestic tranquility, provide for the department of defense, cut social welfare, and secure blessings of liberty to the 1% and their posterity. Do ordain and establish this constipation of the United Snakes.

[@nwatson2773]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 just file bankruptcy

[@sebastianb5036]

The pledge has always irritated me, being from Germany. Tell me. Is this something Americans do? In Germany back in the 30s and 40s a lot of people would say something like "heilt Hitler" or "drei Liter" instead of the original phrase.

[@kurtiscal3msetccdwell618]

Inflation is tied to the value of money used in a society. Value of anything including money is tied to scarcity. The more you print the money the less valuable the money will be.

[@idontbelonghereanymore6834]

this is always such a touchy subject amongst those of us who are most at risk of losing our work. I feel like every time i talk about it with friends of coworkers in the past they' get mad at me instead of the situation .-.

[@yearginclarke]

Lmao, I've also noticed that same type of reaction when I talk about this kind of stuff with people. It's like they're content with how shitty things are and they try to ignore it, but when you bring it up it rubs them the wrong way for whatever reason. I have the opposite reaction, my anger is directed towards the SYSTEM and not people who question the current state of affairs we're in.

[@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195]

I joined the workforce only 8 years ago and I am definitely feeling I am working more than before… It’s not the hours for me it’s the intensity. Especially since hving to work from home when in quarantine, something shifted in me… Before i’d come to the office around 9.30 (work hours start at 10) and like wash my hands go to the toilet make myself a coffee , smalltalk with coworkers etc, maybe a few meetings.. and throughout the days i made lots of tiny breaks, i ate lunch 0.5-1 hour, and i’d normally start packing a quarter before 6 on most days. I had the ability to work from home but I rarely used it cause my focus in the office is better and it’s easier to communicate with the rest of the team. I also liked the commute cause i could chill out in the bus for 20-60 minutes and once i leave the office i truly left the office. And I got the job done and I was an over performer even then. And my work-work was maybe 7 hours tops on the most demanding days. But everything got done Since i started WFH i somehow got this mentality that every tiny break i make, going to kitchen for water, eating, even going to the toilet, it all had to go out and i had to be behind my desk and my screen working for 8 hours straight and not a second less otherwise i’m not working as much as i should be? it also got much harder to work with all the messages and meetings that were now necessary. previously i didnt have to stop working to communicate something cause people were in the room with me. also we joked and laughed much more. also it was easier to team up when someone had some issue a few of us would just walk the few steps to them and look at it together. now getting more than two people on a call was a taxing mental load (still is) I also didnt have to wake up for the commute so I would stay late to “make up” for all the “breaks”, which would result in me waking ip at the last minute to start working, id skip breakfast and eat linch behind the computer on many days, and since the work is there i never left it, so it was working the whole day. since waking up to going to bed i was in work mode all the time. and only in the last six month did i stop. but now when i log off at 18:01 i feel some ridiculous sense of guilt. i work 9hrs most days. yet i feel like i’m lazy for not overworking myself? Literally wtf If you got to the end of this wow thanks for reading i didn’t expect anyone to read this i honestly just wanted a place to let it out Also my paycheck doubled since this time two years ago - but i am somehow worse off now? groceries have doubled, rent has skyrocketed everything is so expensive even though i used to spend so much more on transportation and travel and going out??

[@skylarsaysstuff]

Your name is beautiful. Thanks for this comment I relate to what you wrote and I'm new to work (college student). I'm really worried for my economic future as an older adult. And I've always felt guilty for taking the small breaks like talking with coworkers or getting water. I've literally brought my phone into the bathroom to avoid missing calls out of fear. It's weird hearing that less than a decade ago, it was much more easy going of an environment to work time-wise. I hope this means we're able to go back quickly because this isn't sustainable for an entire workforce.

[@TragickSin]

You work sitting on your ass all day….be glad and grateful you don’t have a bs physically demanding job .

[@youtubename7819]

I felt the same panicked guilt when we switched to WFH, so I worked 2X as hard as my coworkers because I was terrified of being fired. That resulted in my coworkers bullying me mercilessly. Eventually I got so burned out that I can’t work long hours or be hyper productive in a short time now, even though emotionally I desperately want to. It’s a losing game. Might as well just enjoy your life.

[@youtubename7819]

@Iam then you haven’t worked with very many people. It’s pretty common for the highest achieving person to be targeted, as I have unfortunately found out. Even grade-schoolers do it, looking back. Bully the nerd.

[@semekiizuio]

​@Iam because people see you as a stuck up or overachiever. Its not uncommon for people to be jelous of someone elses success. There are different levels of jealousy though but in the workforce majority is alway malignant in people climbing over other people suffer

[@asdf9890]

I’m struggling with being overwhelmed and burnt out. I was solo IT support for a year or so after covid. Got a coworker to supposedly help but he is incredibly timid and lazy…I swear I’m going to get fired for losing my mind one day. I’m looking for another position, but it’ll probably be the same thing just somewhere else. At least people won’t know me (contacting me direct all day instead of going through the helpdesk like protocol).

[@Keyshawngotbeats]

I'm literally feeling the exact same way as well too. My boss doesn't even respect me nor my colleagues so why should I take this job seriously? It's sad how the world is becoming because your right, if you find a new job, it's more than likely it's just as bad as your current one so what's the point?

[@lazyzombie5138]

I live in France and i have lost hope in this society. We have no power to change things at least right now. I hope this system will collapse one day but i don’t think i will be part of it when this happens.

[@jinxshadow5218]

My job is directed towards Uni students. Most of us live at home and we don’t need to pay for classes. And I’m realizing we kind of gaslit ourselves into thinking that this justifies us earning like an inch above minimum wage. If I end up going back there, I’m definitely looking into unions.

[@skylarsaysstuff]

I think high american obesity is because of work. Too much work -> less time for physical activity. Even if you have time to squeeze in a workout, you're too exhausted mentally to be motivated. -> less time for cooking so fast food.

[@handsfortoothpicks]

Car companies also lobbied politicians to create car dependent cities. Traffic and such and then food deserts make it harder to access food

[@2222hottiee]

American life is depressing too so people escape it with unhealthy habits.

[@fuzzytop4746]

Bro we used to work 80 hours a week no one was fat. It’s from people waking up walking to their cars driving to McDonald’s getting 2k calories. Drive to work sit on chair drive back home eat frozen lasagna walk to bed

[@davidty2006]

Doesn't help that all the work places require a car to reach.. Instead of within walking, biking or accesible by good transit.

[@anthonylicata5704]

Just watched on Nebula but had to come here to say this has been my favorite episode yet. Love the progress in creativity in production! But also great topic

[@nanayaw2000iob]

I give it another 20 years before the system as we know it drastically changes or collapses entirely. Let’s see which the top one percent decide they prefer, seeing as how they’re in charge around here.

[@dawdle9175]

god, i hope there’s not 20 more years of this nonsense. i’m holding my hopes out for a revolution.

[@TerryTappArt]

After manufacturing facilities were moved out of the country, and unions were decimated, many factories were brought back. They were placed in areas with a history of low union density like the southwest and southeast/the South. I know, I worked in several of these in Kentucky. These facilities are dangerous, ergonomic nightmares.

[@furiousdestroyah9999]

@@daniellarson3068 This is what Capitalist brainwashing does to a mf

[@TerryTappArt]

@@daniellarson3068 The plant at which I worked in Louisville went with the UAW in 2013. That company has good pay and safety regulations and vacations in France. They conduct "keeping you safe and union-free" classes for workers in the United States

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

@@daniellarson3068 Unions have been demonized for 50 years so everyone thinks somehow they are better off without also some laws were made that make unions pretty weak.

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

@@daniellarson3068 yeah the government made it legal in most states that everyone if they pay or not has to be covered by the union and that basically makes it impossible to make a real union because unions need money to fight for you but if you don't have to pay for it then some people just won't pay weakening the union and eventually making it dissolve in some cases. thing is even with union dues you make more and get more time off than people in a similar job with no union it is also harder for the company to just fire you for no reason.

[@PrestoJacobson]

​@@daniellarson3068 no you have a good one! Right to work for less. Reagan bad.

[@hisbigal]

I struggled for years at sub par jobs, and no matter what I did, I could never get ahead. I went to college and graduate school but, because I didn't have certain types of degrees, I was stuck doing work that paid pitiful wages and dealt with employers I'd sooner shoot than work for them, given the choice. It's only been in the last 15 years when, thanks to a chance to finish my PhD in the UK and some financial luck courtesy of my mother dying and leaving me her estate (because I'm and only child and she forget to write a will), that I've been able to have something of a comfortable life working as a research librarian at a university, something I really enjoy. However, there have been numerous challenges, and we've had several strikes, because the Tories are trying to defund universities(even though every single one of them in government are Oxbridgers). It's definitely getting worse, though, for lots of people. I can only hope there'll be more serious push back, like what's happening in France.

[@wallaceahtone6149]

I feel the same way. It's like that here in America too. People here think this country is somehow better than others, but Americans don't have anything over the French. I honestly wish that Americans would have half of the ardor that the French have. We're just meek and servile, but treat eachother harshly here. Capitalism has taken the heroics completely out of this country and made us servile and apologists for our oppressors!

[@cloaked.mystic]

Your videos are great quality and the vibe in the bg is nice. Love all the resources, pictures, evidence and statistics! The geek in me is going crazy for ur vids 🤓

[@dreadpirates_]

Work is getting worse because we are in " hypercapatalism" now. Where corporations use lobbying ( legal bribery). They get using their money to influence politicians to NOT pass legislation to protect worker while simultaneously dismantling UNIONS. But also normalize unpaid overtime for salaried workers, reduce staffing, and force those workers ro do 60 -80 hours to keep their jobs.... without legislation to protect us and legislation MAXING out director compensation to .... maybe 600% ... the average worker. So they don't make 10 billion while paying the custodians 15k a year.... THIS IS WHY ITS GETTING WORSE !!!!!!

[@bitfreedom]

Can confirm. I work as a package delivery slave at Amazon. It is hellish.

[@Pridetoons]

Thank You for talking about how American's are working longer hours than before.

[@ikurasugarbooty2331]

For less than what they can live on comfortably

[@yurasdrake7915]

​@ikurasugarbooty2331 no, people just spend their money on stupid things they can't afford. Minimum wage jobs are not to live off of, they are stepping stones to skill improvement, or experience. They are not meant to be careers.

[@thienthien7765]

@@yurasdrake7915 hope you will be still that naive, I know the feeling of accepting unescapable capitalism is not that great that many people refuse to believe how screwed they can be in the future or right now. I know you can not accept your fate as a worker who easily effected by capitalists. I hope you’ll all right when the time comes, when you get fucked up so hard by this inhumane system.

[@felixthecat0371]

@@yurasdrake7915 what about the people who have for whatever reason ended up having minimum wage work as their option, even temporarily, do they deserve to just struggle immensely?

[@cosmicllama6910]

@@yurasdrake7915 Boomers literally have ten times the wealth that millennials have and that is a fact, couple that with the fact that houses now cost TEN times more for us than they did for the boomers, and you can kindly shut your face. It's only millennials and Gen Z that are expected to get a master's degree for a job that pays 15 an hour. Boomers never had to deal with that, and I bet my life they wouldn't have rolled over and taken it with no lube either, so why should we?!

[@andreadaerice]

Thank you for this thoughtful analysis, I have just discovered you and now I'm subscribed.

[@ScientificZoom]

Most time the training we get from employer is also questionable as the manager makes up groups of his choice, and the loyal employees fails to recognize this at earlier stages, also manager creates fake competitions between i.e. say engineer vs accountant, clear enough if a higher qualified occupied with vs lower counterpart, as well they try to sue and show how uncapable an employee is, while the situation is different