Why Work Is Getting Worse | Asmongold Reacts
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- The world just keep getting better for every new generation. Or does it?
by @SecondThought • Why Work Is Getting Worse
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Isn't it insane that in the parents or grandparents generation, the man was the sole provider and they were still able to afford a nice house.
To be fair the USA got massive boost of economy during that time because of World War II
Tbf this only worked because there wasn't equality. They could pay black people, women, and other minorities (back then it was Italians, Irish, whoever the 'undesirables' of the time were) significantly less for certain jobs, which allowed for higher wages for the "premium" workers, and lower costs for consumerism.
Obviously equality was the right call, but neoliberals also used this excuse to pay people less across the board. And then use politics to pit is against eachother.
Asmon mentioned that the rich always pit half of the poors against the other. Not a big surprise to see why the red/blue polarization of this country is so contentious right now, as corporations and billionaires keep robbing us blind and fking us over.
Yea effectively doubling the work force really didn't help.
@@dafazain5978 That was the case worldwide not just in the USA.
That's because women weren't diluting wages by entering the workforce en masse.
I worked at a huge fortune-500 corporation. They literally provide NOTHING. They're a 3PL company which means they generate no real value to the world.
ANYWAYS.
One time, one of my coworkers was working a graveyard shift and one of the directors called IT. IT guy was busy helping someone else and he's the only person working since it's graveyard shift. Long story short, the director had to wait like 15 minutes to get in contact with IT. He DEMANDED we fire this employee. It was so serious that he screamed about it to everyone in the company for WEEKS and even told my boss he would be fired if he didn't fire this guy. He pressed on every level of management all the way to the CEO. The employee was fired. All because he had to wait 15 minutes, this employee that dedicated 6 years of his life to the company was fired.
A few months later, the company hired new IT director. It was extra exciting because she was a FEMALE director. Ooh! ...She instantly fired around 1000 people and outsourced their jobs to countries with lower wages.
People need to stop supporting this ridiculous corporatization of everything in life, you're less than ants to upper management.
Years ago I had a job building trusses. Some of the trusses require foam board to be nailed onto the side. I was doing this job with the nail gun, while another worker positioned the foam board into the truss. Apparently the business owner was touring the facility and saw me standing waiting for the other guy to position the board. He complained to management that I was just standing around doing nothing and he wanted me fired...I was literally standing holding the nail gun for maybe ten seconds while the other guy got the foam into position. My managers(there were two) convinced the owner that I was an excellent worker and shouldn't be fired but they were still forced to sit me down and tell me I needed to work harder. They both looked very uncomfortable and I think I was probably shaking with anger as I was accused of being lazy, when we all knew that was the furthest thing from the truth. Even though I knew it was BS, after that meeting I started working even harder, to my physical detriment. And a month later the owner decided he didn't need third shift anymore, and fired all of us... The point is, sometimes the people in charge are clueless jackasses
BIG corporations no longer provide any value. They only exist to administrate wealth, turning all of their accumulation into more accumulation - ad infinitum. They're like Rich Kings, who employ salaried Noblemen to do all the accounting/investments for them. The people who actually produce VALUE are workers; without workers' labor, the whole economy would cease to function. Money would cease to have value. And thus, the Rich King would have to go hungry and homeless, despite having 1 Trillion dollars stored inside a computer.
I had a job want to hire me for a position because im a woman. I turned them down. I didnt have the skills they required and they were like oh thats fine. Nah bru
I wasted my life trying to get people to recognize and overthrow our usurpers, but I genuinely think it’s impossible to fight against the power of the media/tv.
At my last job, they up and decided to move the entire manufacturing operation to KY because they could get away with paying $11 an hour to the welders who have no rights there. I'm a sr. accountant and I saw their rates when I approved payroll. $11 an hour in the heat and din of a warehouse. More experienced welders were making at most $17 or $18 an hour.
"The kids yearn for the coal mines" is a great quote that I one day hope to work into a conversation straight faced
Minecraft anyone?
We are actively cutting child labour laws right now in several states
@@yt_nh9347 very heartless. Some would propose a base level of material conditions. Not a generation ago someone could support a family doing a necessary job for society like being a janitor. And felt much less alienated from their jobs. The entire point is things are rapidly worsening. And will continue to do so.
@@yt_nh9347there’s not even new jobs to replace the ones we’re losing. You need to look at thing with a Dialectical materialist analysis. Why are things the way they are, so profits can continue to go toward the top? For how much longer?
They set up a yarn down there. In the mines.
"Silent hiring" yeah this happened to me. Whilst I worked for a large IT company, they decided to hire a bunch of people in India and my job was to train them how to do my job because they were apparently hired to aid my team with the massive stack of work. Lol nope, after me and my team fully trained the Indian team, my entire (UK) team of 10 people got let go.
Bro that s so fucked up man... Wtf how is this even happening?
@@gokulsivakumar4930 already happened in factories, now it’s happening in white collar sector too: outsourcing.
@@i_dream_of_memes Automation in factories happens everywhere... Technology replacing manpower is inevitable... The thing he mentioned above is jus inhumane
@@gokulsivakumar4930 Automation isn’t outsourcing. Moving factories to China and Mexico where they can pay workers 0.10$/hr is outsourcing, and you’re right- it’s inhumane.
@@i_dream_of_memes We need to build an AI that will kill the rich.
It's almost like when railway workers wanted to strike over safety issues and the president made it illegal to do so and then all the trains started derailing shortly after.
Crazy how that happened lmao right
Let's be fair here the trains were derailing before then, too. It's just that there was a particularly horrific one with horrifying chemicals that crashed that brought more eyes on the issue.
Railways have always derailed, the news media just doesn't cover it, they only covered it because it benefited them politically
Infrastructure fails daily and the news media never covers it until they can get political points to blame Republicans or democrats
@Quintessence nah, apparently it's more important to pat trans people on the back when they shoot up schools
@@id2k. Yes since we all know republicans are known for their labor friendly stances. /sarcasm. The only ones who have a good record of workers rights/union support are progressives, but they have little to no power on the federal level. Unfortunately progressives often get lost in the sauce with grievance politics.
Don't worry guys, in the near future we'll only be competing with more and more robots, so all we have to do is work like robots for less pay and we'll be fine!
Ez 5head
Feel like people saying robots take jobs, all lose sight of the automation and maintenance teams required to keep them running as intended.
Less unskilled workers, but creates a need for a skilled team to maintain and adjust.
I am biased, as this benefits me and drives up the demand for my skillset.
Aware
@@chrisklooz9538 You are deluded if yout hink automation is good for workers. If it was , company wouldnt transfer to automations.
@@tehbeernerd Curious: what would be your solution then?
I've been homeless for 14 years. In Austin, homeless services used to just be a wait-list, now though, it's need based. The more problems you have, the faster you get seen. On the old system, your priority got bumped up if you had a job since it meant the city didn't have to support you as long. Now, having a job is actively detrimental, since it meant you were more self sufficient. I landed my job in downtown Austin just before the system switched over, I was told since I had a job I'd probably only have to wait a couple of months for my apartment. 2 and a half months later the system switched and I was called in to take the co-ordinated assessment (the form that determines your neediness). I was honest, talked about my severe ADHD, chronic depression, 9 years of homelessness leading up to it, my job, everything! I scored a 3, the worst possible score, meaning in the cities eyes I was almost entirely self sufficient and didn't really need their help. My 3 month wait time was changed to 4 years. My job paid 13$ an hour no tips allowed at the time. It took them 2 years to promote me and for the location to get a raise as a whole took another year. When I was finally fired (a whole other clusterfuck of a story) I was making 16.50, and even there; I couldn't afford the shittiest, most run down efficiency apartment, since everyone requires you make at least 3 times the rent. The system is broken and I doubt it'll ever change. I'll probably die a homeless person and idk how to feel about that.
Christ, I have to say that it's probably time to leave.
i had about 10 years on the streets, im now out for good, i have a sure roof above my head, and i hope you get to this as well but let me tell you one thing brother, it doesnt really change all that much, you solve that problem, 3 more pop up, and so on ad infinitum. Im in Europe and here is basically even worse as the possibilities are far less as in the states. We do have social security, which is about 2/3 of the minimum wage (today i'd get about 400euros or there about) and we also have a system where if you have even a minimum wage job, you dont get any help of the state, you must not have any income to be able to get our social security. The system is fucked everywhere my friend and the whole world is in need of change
Same...I been homeless multiple times. It's just impossible if you're poor. In a way, I long for death...at least I'd have no more needs that need to be met and never get met, and wouldn't have to worry about slaving away at some job I hate, with an already disabled brain and body. Fuck me US sucks.
@@dragongamerboi13 yeah its hard to clear enough income a month in a honest way living like that, one thing you mention as well that people really dont get is the toll it takes on you physically and mentally. I was lucky that i was surrounded with mostly good people, it made all that much easier. One advice i can give you and it really helped me is this, dont work for others work for yourself and start valuing your time correctly, even tho you are in a bad spot, your time is still worth an X ammount, might not be to everyone the same, so what you do is find those people that value your time more than others and stick with them. Try to get a job you dont hate as much and that doesnt have you slave for somebody, start small. You dont have to clear that 3k right away, clear 1k while still feeling good about yourself (which in your situation i know its hard) and take it from there, make a balance of what it cost you to clear that 1k once you do, see how much time effort and keeping your mouth shut and head down it took, if it looks to much, fuck that job it aint for you, move on. Get to one where your investment (outside of time) is minimal and the reward for it big enough. Go on from there. The way i did this was, i ended on the street and a social worker helped me find a job in a factory, as soon as i got there, the problems started as they knew i was sent by the social worker and was homeless, so yeah, it was a super nice environment to work in, despite all that i showed up clean on time every day, i liked the work as i was alone with a machine all day but still coworkes kept hiding their shit when i went by, i could not bum cigarettes off them as nobody gave me the time of their day, so 2 weeks pass like that and there i am miserable working for 25e per day while the guy im living with, sells dope 2 hour x day and clears 200e daily (which he then spent on more drugs), so i started dealing dope as well, the italians came in droves at that time so there was enough for everyone. The mistake i made was i eventually started using is which really minimizes your profits if you a dumbass like me. If i just kept my nose clean, 6 months and i'd be off the street right there and then without much problems but because im a dumbass ofc there were complications, i still got out eventually and now i work only for myself, i found the way to live with minimum income and still be happy,i dont need to be rich. OH another fucked up thing nobody tells you is that when you eventually get off the streets the problems only really start, it's a lot of work, i havent done it all yet, still chugging along as best i can and it feels like it will never really go away, you know, the feeling of having nothing to show for your life, ehh im not an natural english speaker so i dont know how to really say it but if you are in the shit you will understand anyway. Hope things get better for you soon, do not give up,there is happines for you out there all you need to is find it and know when you do you never let go .
@@dragongamerboi13 A-fucking-men
I worked at a large distribution company a while back as an order picker. I was pulling 16 hour shifts and lifting 30k pounds a night. They told me my body would get used to it but I could tell my body was just breaking down. Humans aren't meant to work like that. I refuse to be overworked and underpaid.
What they describe is just getting "used to it".
The body can adapt to a lot. But with a shift like that, especially back to back, you're not only taking on too much work, you don't get any recovery which I'd argue is the most damaging part.
Met too many people in warehouses with bad backs. The production standards they put on some of these jobs doesn't allow good posture and enough rest.
You load fifteen tons
And whadda you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
The human body can get used to a lot, but it absolutely can not get used to lack of rest. Exertion without room to recover is equivalent to just not eating food. The body falls apart.
My retail job has lost 40% of is payroll in the last 3 years. Regular customers come in and say "you guys need to hire, too bad no one wants to work." That's not true. I have a folder full of applications now... we are just on a hiring freeze. And our company's union contract expired at the beggining of covid. Still no contract. Things are changing.
@Vercusgames Who can blame them when you looking at the the statistics just like what is being said even in this video. Record profits above all at the expense of future generations .. they dont see a positive future.
@Vercusgames "These younger generations have stopped trying." Why the hell would anyone try in a job where everyone will treat you like shit no matter what because you're doing that specific job? Good on everyone in a position to retain their self respecting and look for opportunities that will actually help them instead of being treated like literal dirt by assholes.
Yes through unionizing. Socialism.
This sounds like where I used to work and had to leave it got so bad everyone plans on quitting
@@tankforbank7603I have conversations with Boomers regarding the economy everyday. I am in Sales. They are simply out of touch, and have no desire to change their mindsets or perspective. Being in the higher end spectrum for "wealth" the system worked for them... these people do not care about the people whom it doesn't work for.
Working back-cash at a McDonalds for 7 months was worst job I ever had. I still remember getting yelled at by a customer because I didn't speak Spanish. Stupid shit like that all day, everyday, on your feet, no breaks.
Honestly, I'm not sure if I'm just lucky, but it always seemed like the customers were nicer than my upper coworkers to me. They were much easier to deal with than my coworker.
Thank you for your service, not even joking. I've avoided working food service because I know its hell. I worked pharmacy and we had a drive through, that shit is absolutely brutal. Coke heads screaming over their prescriptions and I have to tell them its illegal to give them more until the next day or their insurance etc. Anyway hope you never have to go back to food.
As someone who is nice to service workers and restaurants employees, I’ve noticed that not only have customers started to act worse and entitled but so have the a lot of employees in fast food atleast(I’ve had burgers thrown towards me after they fixed my burger that they gave to me wrong in the first place). It’s usually teenagers doing both from what I’ve seen but I’ve seen some really bad adult customers😂
@@austinlarrimore6542 well, guess if the employees get treated worse they also treat customers worse.
I worked 1st level support for some time and I would never degrade people in the service industry.
It wasn't so bad but there were some pretty horrible customers, had a lawyer from a customer emailing after the customer wasn't refunded within a week (package didn't even arrive at out facility again and law says 14 days refund period after providing proof of return-shipment).
And it was for like 100€...
And I know I was lucky, this way only email support.
I don't want to know what call center employees go through and then fast food workers have to run around all the time in a very heated environment, probably get told all the time to be faster and have to endure customers that lay out their anger issues on you.
Did you tell the customer to go back to Mexico?
I’m a nurse on a cardiac/pulmonary unit in the south. Most pts of ours are late 50s-80s and have low quality of life. I hate how people say “we are living longer” but our quality of life hasn’t gone up at all so it doesn’t matter
Live longer but we can't exactly work longer. It's not like we remain "young" longer. How people don't get that...
So you would rather them die...
It’s more like “we’re able to artificially inflate life expectancy to make the illusion that people are healthy enough to work longer”
I remember a chilling asterisk on the life expectancy chart when I got to high school and the topic was brought up in a history class.
The professor said, "Life expectancy stats are mostly a scam and only went up because babies and "kids" stopped dying. For all our modern medicine and whatnot we haven't been able to push the average usable lifespan up at all besides you know "be healthy" which to be fair is easier to achieve due to access to education. However, if you didn't kick the bucket before you were an adult and didn't have a stupidly high risk occupation back in the day, it was well expected you'd live to be 60-70 years old before you stopped being useful. That hasn't changed one bit."
That has stuck with me all these years later and the more I learn about the world the more I feel that guy was right on more than just life expectancy.
"It is tasteless to prolong life artificially." _Albert Einstein_
I had an interview a little while ago and one thing they said really pissed me off. They mentioned how I'd be expected to stay late some days (and still get paid tho). So, I inquired how "late" is late because I don't mind staying a little later but I do have a 4 month old puppy that I need to get back home to. These mf'ers said "Well if you have other commitments this might not be the job for you." Sorry I want to be a responsible adult and take care of my dog.
"I'm sorry sir, we are only hiring empty husks to put to work."
"Sorry, I thought this was a regular job not a slavery contract"
Lie to them, they don't deserve the truth.
"everyone has other commitments, you might not need to hire anyone if that's what you're looking for"
Legit went to my bosses boss regarding this subject. Ironically she not only understood completely, but she felt the same way when I also mentioned my dog and a few other logic flaws regarding scheduling.
"It doesn't matter what system you use, greed finds a way"
So. Fucking. True.
And when you do some research, you start to see how much worse these other systems are, than capitalism. There's a HUGE reason why people move away from socialist countries, to the US. And easily, 99% of them have said its WAY better here in the US, vs their previous lives in socialism.
@@xalderin3838
Bro claims there's a huge reason why people move away from socialist countries, then does not state it lmao
I can tell you, it's because of America's foreign policy! Imposing embargoes, sanctions and ensuring socialist countries are locked out of the global market, and trying their best to collapse socialist countries, either economically or politically!
"99% of them have said it's WAY better here in the US, vs. their previous lives in socialism."
because 99% of those people who run from socialist countries are the capitalists who used to live in that country, lol their whole business was nationalized and now runs better and smoother under the care of the workers, y'know, people who actually step into the office/factory/restaurant and do the work?
Finally, to @Alrithin
Greed finds a way, sure. Human nature is fickle, deeply flawed, and ever-so beautiful. But, instead of rewarding it's worst parts like greed and power, we incentivized things like, community, kinship and empathy.
Human nature is shaped by the system, and not the other way around. In every age, under every system ever known will try to claim otherwise to justify the system's contradictions when confronted with the totality of human nature.
Remember that, if nothing else.
@@Relflow It's anecdotal, but I'll say it anyway. My family fled the Castro regime even though they were dirt poor and definitely not the "capitalists" the regime was targeting. There is a lot more that happens in a socialist revolution than just the purging of the capitalists, so boiling those who flee down to just that group is inaccurate. There've been plenty of people fleeing such countries that left with only a couple bucks in their pockets (if even that). It's not just the rich who flee.
And as much as human nature has beautiful points to it, there are some aspects that we cannot change without fundamentally changing humanity. Such as irrationality. Emotions are not derived from nurture but rather from nature, and as such the issues that arise with emotions cannot and will not be solved by simply changing the system one is in.
So while I do _heavily_ disagree with the other guy and think he's being hyperbolic _at best,_ I do not think this is correct either. Neither system is good, neither system works. Humanity will _never_ be able to create a "good" society as it currently stands, and unfortunately it is impossible to completely change the underlying human psyche (except possibly by committing some enormous atrocity on a scale never seen before).
My mentality is that different systems work better or worse for different cultures/peoples/eras. The system should reflect the people within it, rather than having a blindly idealistic system forced upon them. These "one size fits all" ideas never consider the people they are talking about, always boiling them down into a single homogenous mass that is exactly like all others. So to each society their own. Some maybe desire and be suited for socialism, some for capitalism. It is hardly our place to speak for people far removed from our own notions and culture, and so these sweeping generalizations about systems always seem to be shallow in thought, regardless of what team you're batting for.
Everything always looks better on paper, and the grass is always greener on the other side after all.
It’s not true. That’s literal propaganda by cpaitalnowners to make you think there is no other way. “To say greed is human nature under a system that rewards greed is like coal miners thinking black lung is human nature.”
@@kindafreexp1415
Your family fled to America because America imposed sanctions/embargoes to your home country and as a result, your family's living standard declined. When I made that generalization, I was just mocking them and their "99%" claim.
"There are some aspects that we cannot change without fundamentally changing humanity. Emotions are not derived from nurture but rather from nature, and as such the issues that arise with emotions cannot and will not be solved by simply changing the system one is in."
I literally just said, "Human nature is shaped by the system, not the other way around. In every age, under every system ever known will try to claim otherwise to justify the system's contradictions when confronted with the totality of human nature."
"Neither system is good, neither system works. Humanity will never be able to create a "good" society as it currently stands..."
Let me ask you, what are your objective metrics on a successful society? I have a seriously good idea on what that looks like and I can describe you what I think they should be. The basic right of humans are enshrined and enforced, their basic needs, food, healthcare and housing are met fully and with the highest quality that is possible, they have an actual say in how their community and society's direction moves toward.
For example. A democratic workplace (i.e worker's co-op/unionized workplace) you get to have a say on how the workplace is conducted, how your hours and work is managed and then you are apart of how the company moves forward via investments and the distribution of company profits into your worker's wages/company costs etc.
Here we go folks, speedrun time.
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"My mentality is that different systems work better or worse for different cultures/peoples/eras..."
My mentality is that different systems come, evolve, and then die. Capitalism is next to step into a grave.
"...The system should reflect the people within it, rather than having a blindly idealistic system forced upon them..."
Capitalism is completely centered around the 1%. Not the 99% of workers lol
"...These "one size fits all" ideas never consider the people they are talking about, always boiling them down into a single homogenous mass that is exactly like all others..."
Yeah they do consider the people they are talking about, its just that there are ALWAYS systemic contradictions that eventually cause the crumbling of the system itself. For Slave societies, slaves get old and die and you cannot keep up with slavery forever. For Capitalism, the accumulation of wealth toward the top is an unbalancing act, causing the right conditions for a violent revolution from either fascists or communists.
"...So to each society their own..."
Yeah, until a higher society imposes its power onto a lower society causing its members to move elsewhere. In a world THIS interconnected, you cannot afford to be isolationist anymore. Cuba is a prime example of that.
"...Some maybe desire and be suited for socialism, some for capitalism...."
Everyone yearns for the fulfilled promise of being cared for and freedom to be whatever the hell they want to do and be.
"...It is hardly our place to speak for people far removed from our own notions and culture, and so these sweeping generalizations about systems always seem to be shallow in thought, regardless of what team you're batting for."
If that's how you view it, then you are really lost in a simplistic view of the world.
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To end,
"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win." - Karl Marx
Currently employed at Wal-mart as a stocker. Conditions are absolutely horrible going into warmer weather. Its been hot and sweaty for around a month now, and they only just started (in the last few days) providing us water so we don't get dehydrated, and even then, its just room temperature water with no ice.
Breaks have been cracked down on hard. Your break begins the second you leave your area, and ends when you get back, so by the time you walk to and from the break room, its more like a 10 minute break rather than 15. Our team leader has also been saying that bathroom breaks should be no longer than 3 minutes from the time you leave your area to the time you get back. She even followed one person to the bathroom and timed them. Absolutely ridiculous.
All the while, we've been expected to do more and more work for barely above minimum wage.
Nobody is forcing you to stay. Walmart isn't the only big box retail.
Sounds like hell
@@Veteran_Spartan depends on where you live. Sometimes, Walmart is the only place you can work. Either that, or the mom and pop that really can't afford to pay.
Just remember that Walmart could have the best air conditioning on the planet and the owners would never notice a difference in their standard of living.
That sounds awful, and illegal....water costs next to nothing (considering..) to provide to your employees. I work at an Amazon delivery station and they have like 5-7 water things around the warehouse, and it's a small-ish warehouse, where you can stop any time to grab water, obviously don't do it every single time you make a trip but yeah lol. Your place sounds absolutely horrible to work at, the breaks like that? our PA (process assistant - like assistant manager) tells us when we're done with picking routes (pick and stage) to take a 15m then either VTO or to do other work if you wanna stay. Even crazier is timing your bathroom breaks, like what? it all sounds illegal, but I'm sure somehow it's not due to loopholes.
I ran a welding robot. 3-5 welders worth of work done by a single man with a machine. The pay cap is 18 dollars an hour. All the money they save is getting pocketed by the top guys.
You mean the guys who opened the business and bought all the equipment and paid your salary are taking profits for themselves???? How dare they????
I don't see the world as worker vs. fatcat but this happened because the price of most labor is going down all the time. There are still lots of people with labor worth paying top dollar for, and they're getting top dollar. The rest of us have gotten so used to having our company take care of us that we don't just go on the market and get more for what we're providing of our own initiative, or just straight up ignore economic realities (working on an assembly line doesn't make you valuable), and instead blame people for doing things none of us would hesitate for a second to do ourselves in their shoes. It's insane
@btsnake That business owner earns 0 dollars without his workers. Remember that even if you are flipping burgers at McDonald's, the moment workers leave, there is no longer a business. Workers have value, they are the most valuable thing in a company. You can replace a CEO, not the workers. Americans need to learn from the French and go on strikes.
@@orpheus0108 the employees earn zero dollars without the business too, bud. And just as they can go work somewhere else, a business can hire other employees too. Maybe it's not as one sided as you think, but what do I know, not compared to a guy who thinks strikes are good. The mistake is thinking that labor isn't a market, too.
“Staff training” is where a company takes of advantage of you by cutting your pay to a training level and then making you work full time shifts for 2 years to learn a job that takes ten minutes to learn.
This is not the QOL update we have been yearning for.
It is a "surprise"
30 years ago everyone thought that advances in technology would mean we could all retire by age 55.
The opposite has happened.
Productivity gains mean more profits and less jobs but those still employed are made to work longer and harder.
As a black person that went through high school and had to learn about black history every year, the cotton jin begins to slow clap.
no one tought that actually, it's quite logic in the end... that's capitalism for you, it can't work without poor people
There's more jobs today, not less.
@@SnowBalling mind numbing jobs
It's not technology. It's corporatization.
Almost everything in the country is owned by a handful of corporations. They hoover up all of the value of every community in the entire country. That's the only reason billionaires exist. No local company could generate billions.
You have value to the people around you in your local area. To the CEO of a corporation, you are nothing and they would feel dirty just being near someone so unimportant.
My dad was trying to explain why it was "just as hard if not harder" to buy a house 30 years ago as it is today because they had "higher interest rates."
I explained to him that, adjusted for inflation, the salary he was making 30 years ago, and the house he bought, was equivalent to ~$175k/yr and a 450,000 home respectively.
He then realized just how much his salary hadn't been keeping up over the years, and that actually, he was being underpaid as well.
Employers learned they can pay people 40% less for the same job because people need money, and now most households are 2 income households. Instead of paying people more, they shovel the profits to the top like never before.
I wonder what could have caused this? If only we could figure it out...
They also effectively doubled the workforce with the addition of women, allowing for an approximate 40-50% reduction in salaries (the value of labour). Not that having women working is bad, but it HAS worked towards the devaluation of labour
The government loves being able to tax 2 people instead of 1.
@@evan5935lol, it's actually true, and many women dream of having a man support them, how about you let go of your job so a man can actually support you?
@@drago1uk2000cultural shift. Movies like wolf of wallstreet made it cool to be a greedy psychopath
Capitalism is fine….if our government actually followed the rules. Busting up monopolies etc…this is a deep rabbit hole.
good old times when my father was the only one providing for us and we still could afford to travel the world many times a year, buy expensive stuff...that days are gone
People have been caught up in consumerism and now dont know how to manage their own money anymore. Not like its taught in schools or anything but still.
@GiRR007 If this is your mindset then you come from an extremely privileged perspective. I got lucky, the right people have me a chance, but by all metrics I should be making $20/hrs in a shit hole apartment still eating hot dogs and Ramen. No amount of penny pinching would have pulled me out of that hole.
not if youre upper management.. sadlol
I was just talking about this...
Because of automation people began hyper specialisation, think about it...
People used to be generally skilled, have multiple skilled tasks to carry out.
But each time an automated solution was found... The ONLY way to keep people employed is to havvthem specialise in tighter an tighter niches.
Yup, that makes sense.
It's true. It's actually bring "professional cretinism" for people that laser focused on one skill and absolute incompetent in every other aspects of life including social skills.
Yup exactly. In broader terms, the skill sets "allowed" (unless you're an entertainer being able to clap multiple times a second probably won't help with the bills lol) are being narrowed. This wouldn't be a huge deal if folks could easily adapt and there were a ton of jobs floating around. But in reality there's a ton of competition while a lot of folks simply aren't techy enough to do the job (as in the material flies by their head. Everyone has some subjects they tend to struggle with, having jobs be based on those is a pain in the butt. Unfortunately hyperspecialized jobs in those areas means you're screwed).
The idea that automation improves lives was only true in the context of it being used to help folks. But when it's used by publicly traded large corps that are financially obligated to make decisions that drive up profits...yeah, automation is being used as a tool to oppress people. In this context AI is perhaps the worst thing that could have happened to humanity because it makes it a whole lot easier for a small group of people to control the many. This will only get worse with time and I'm sad very few people are talking about it, instead harping on about AI overlords when really we should be focusing on corporate overlords, aka cyberpunk 2077...
Reminds me of modern times by chaplin
I think the thing about the current situation today is that the 2008 Crisis spoiled companies. They got used to having easily replaceable, and lower wage employees, and didn't really compete for labor for years.
That has continued on past the 2008 crisis.
But that the adjustment is not coming in. The current situation is forcing them to compete and be competitive for a labor force that is able to leave and find another job if they don't like it.
When I was a much younger man, when I heard these words from an American President, " Ask not what you're country can do for you, but what you can do for you're country !", I felt a cold tingle go down my spine. We have been doing and doing for our country, nose to the grindstone the most powerful country on the planet thanks to us and we get it up the wazoo the old bait and switch. People are tired. Working more and making less. The more we give the more they want for less. We put a man on the moon, a woman on the bottom of the ocean, spend millions on weapons of war, a nation based on fear. Well, look on the bright side it could be worse. My 2 cents.
Your*. What do you think of jfk in general?
@@xXJLNINJAXx another politician, just a man.
@@xXJLNINJAXx He was another geopolitical war criminal. As far as domestic policies, I don't know enough to have an opinion.
The CIA didn't like him apparently@@iPlayOnSpica
@@iPlayOnSpicamore Kissinger than JFK but yes to all.
Came for WoW and stayed for economics. New fav CZcamsr.
Never played wow in my life but asmond is such a great entertainer. Imo he has a very balanced outlook on most issues.
Socialist economics
No dont! You don’t want UBI. Do i actually have to explain how a system with powers as the universal distribution of people's income will be bad for every one besides for the sugar daddies or any other privileged organ/entity.
Would be smarter for you to ride alongside the opposition. Cut loose any chains tying you to central positions of power, while improving your power in selfreliance
@@swearylie yes, it will solidify the existence of the permanent underclass
@@greenburg2276 yes. Even though central banks already have the exclusive right to form and sell otherwise worthless banknotes. So that already kinda exists. UBI would tighten grip by a lot though
In the modern economy, debt is more desirable and liquid than cash is; most of the financial institutions couldn't actually handle cash based services since they're too busy creating and selling debt portfolios. Also the Credit Score is an amazing social scoring system where people are legally and socially locked out of required services because they're seen as a risk for whatever fisher-price reason that's used.
ChInA hAs SoCiAl CrEdIt yeah buddy, how's that credit score? Enjoying the food bank because the real bank won't cover your shopping bill?
cash is a hot potato - always has been.
Credit score is so bullshit. I had to have my dad co sign my new truck I bought after an accident because I had no real history despite putting fucking 10k down on the 15k truck.
@@Deminese2 you mean you needed a signature to use money you didn't have in the first place, to buy a new car, and somehow that's bullshit? Okay.
@@swampthing7234 i put 10k down on a 15k vehicle and they didn't trust me enough for the other 5k so yes its bullshit.
I’ve worked for the same company for just over five years and I’m starting to see at least partial automation creeping in. Tasks that used to take one worker hour are now only half or a quarter. Which means they can slowly downsize staff by one or two employees a year.
I work in a grocery store. Im a meat department manager and they got us doing inventory every other week! I have 1 fulltime meat cutter and 2 part time workers. When i first started 8yrs or so ago i had about 10 employees with a monthly inventory. Its out of control
I was in debt and freaking out because I couldn't pay anymore, and my dad sat me down and said they can't take blood from a turnip. Just that saying helped me stop freaking out
My father would say something similar, "You can't get blood from a stone."
It’s called debt maxing. Buy a bunch of gold or appreciable assets with credit. Don’t pay it back. “Lose” it. Then profit
@@Cabbage22927 instructions unclear now homeless
"You can get a raise without making inflation worse" Provided the owners do not subsidize the raise by increasing their prices rather than recognizing the short term loss in benefit will bring an increase in long term profit
Not how that works. Supply is limited. If you change wages "meaningfully" across the board, you get 1 of 2 things: workers starving to death or more expensive goods.
@@MikeSW supply and demand wasn't the part of the cost analysis. As someone who has worked for good and bad bosses: My previous employer frequently made excuses for not giving employees raises that it would raise prices. However my current employer recognizes if he increases my wages to allow me to survive inflation, I work harder and he makes more money without raising prices. There is a human value in economics that frequently gets left out of the equation.
@@MikeSW Supply of what exactly is limited? If the employer is forced into paying higher wages then yes he will push the cost down to the consumer, but if the wage increase happens as part of negotiations between employer and employee then the cost more than likely will not go up. Rising prices will also affect your overall sales too, because people will be less likely to spend. This also goes into a normal cost benefit analysis by an employer when considering raising an employee's salary.
You're right about the life expectancy.. It's only going up for rich people.. For everyone else, it stagnated decades ago.
My biological father and my stepdad both died before they reached 60.. They never got a single penny of all that Social Security they paid into. It makes me see red when politicians start talking about raising the retirement age.. Someday someone is gonna snap on them.
They don't care because they're all on Alzheimer's medicine.
It’s refreshing to hear someone as big as Asmongold with constructive critiques and a free thinking mind. He just won my vote.
ASMONGOLD 2024 🇺🇸
I couldn't get my bosses to hire someone capable of even understanding the job because they didn't want to hire someone that cost more than 12 $/hr. The last three hires quit on their second day with no notice.
@@snickle1980 insane story man
for that money i can't blame them
19:35 I couldn’t imagine working in food service. Just hearing my picky friends order their food, get mad when it’s wrong, flipping out on service workers… it upsets me. Like coke on man you act like they want to be there… most the time they don’t mess it up on purpose 99% of the time they don’t. It’s an accident, order mix up, or miscommunication that can easily be fixed.
Idk who makes mistakes, but to be honest, from my experience food gets mixed up way ,WAY to often to consider it ups everyone can make mistakes.
Its more like you are glad it was not mixed up this time.
As someone who works fast food at this very moment, I appreciate your comment and I couldn’t have said it better myself!
I agree with you about food service, I've been working in this field for over 7 years, and I 100% agree, it's super stressful.
I did food service for only a few months, realized I cant handle it. Incredibly stressful.
The richer get richer and the poorer get poorer.
Having just spent the past 4 years working at mcdonanlds I would say that fast food jobs are some of the worse jobs in modern day society and anything that comes even close to how bad of a job fast food is pays more. Flippy can have my job, as long as it aint my job no more.
try age care/ disability
Thats 4 years you will never get back, and what do you have to show for those 4 years? Not a lot probably, i did the same with a retail job, wouldn't do it again thats for sure.
Im sorry but why did it take you 4 years to realize this and not go literally anywhere else?
@Vaz G Could just be because everyone's situation is different. They probably realized it in the first week, but they likely needed to continue making money until a better opportunity arose.
@@blackhat4206 I understand, but it usually doesnt take this long. My parents who were immigrants with no opportunities worked there for a few months
In the restaurant I used to work at everyone who couldn't deal with resturant work quit and I had to take on 3 other jobs for 2$hr raise. I pretty much asked for a 10$ raise or I walk then they can pay 3 other people to do the jobs I was doing. They gave in and gave me 8$hr raise. I then worked for 3months straight with no days off because i kept having to come in on my days off sometimes doubles. Then I fainted on the bus home woke up in hospital then my work threaten to fire me when I didn't show up for my shift the next morning when I was still in the hospital. I dont work there anymore. Resturant work that people think is so easy is one of the most physically and mentally exhausting jobs especially in fast food with customers in *urban* cities getting increasingly violent
You managed to argue for pay but you couldn't stop doing overtime?
@@AimbotFreak I like money -Mr. Krabs
When the $1.00 store became the $1/25 store it was all over.
So in 2017 my grandmother passed away of an aneurysm, a year later my grandpa is informing all her credit card company's that she has passed away and they expected him to paying off her stuff. I'm not sure if that's what happened, I only remember it being stressful for a time.
@Grant Todd marriage is a financial contract. If your spouse makes debt, you are liable.
You should not inform debt companies of a loved ones passing, you should immediately begin the probate/will process and only go out of your way to pay stuff that they file onto the case to make a claim for, call the card companies 'as a nephew that wants to cancel her cards'
Can confirm working in corporate is shit. I have 2 bachelors degrees and am debt free. I work in the aerospace sector making good money but still can't afford anything nice like a house or a newer used car. I have been working hard for over a decade with nothing to show for it. no equity in anything... and unable to even get into a mortgage for a condo or house because $200k is $2k a month in mortgage. I am now 32 years old and am quitting my corporate job to go lay down for a couple months because this hard work isn't paying off at all. Working for yourself is the best thing you can do. Corporate just holds onto the profits and waits for you to die and get replaced.
I worked hard as kid not by choice and I can't even tell you how discouraging it was to see absolutely no correlation between production and pay. At almost every single production job I have been one of the fastest producers after only a few weeks or a month of training like to the point of where I was producing on average 3-4 hours more work everyday compared to my coworkers that had been there months-years longer (I say months because turn around is insane at these jobs) but you never get any recognition or increase in pay. It used to make me mad but I can't blame them because there is no point in working harder, you will receive no incentive for working your ass of for any of those type of jobs. The only way to get ahead if you didn't go to college is to either know someone at a really good job or to start your own business and work for yourself.
yes, working harder has only made me work more and made me more mad, doing less has no downsides, actually it has upsides, management does not expect super performance from you and does not nag you about it and you have probably higher chance to get promotion because you spend your time chatting with people, including management , instead of actually working.
working harder is an absolute pit fall no1 should fall for. you don't get promotions or raises from performance you get them from being chummy with HR and your higher ups.
True. I used to work hard at my first job, trying to prove myself, overdoing it, show everyone im capable and took on extra responsibilities and stress. No recognition, no increase in pay, more micro management and less trust in me was my reward. And now people are like "why arent you more ambitious career wise, thats so lazy and uninteresting". Geez i wonder why
@@vangoghsseveredear people don't forget trades are an option, most people don't want to do them. A lot of trade jobs are back breaking, dirty, and sometimes dangerous.
@@vangoghsseveredear Sure you can go chase shut downs and make great money, but not everyone is willing to give up a family life in their prime years and guarantee a worse quality of life in their retirement years from taking on those 24+ hr shifts doing grueling work. The people saying to just learn a trade haven't been the welders getting paid $12/hr by the only dogshit owner in a 70 mile radius or been through the trash of sucking off a union to get your $30/hr running all over the country with no choice of who (often a crotchety old man who gives zero guidance) or where you're learning from. Maybe you got lucky, but it isn't the norm to just finish trade school and suddenly be upper middle class, especially with the amount of restrictions preventing the average person from starting his own shop in any economical sense.
take note that most stats released by the 'US bureau of labor statistics' are delayed by several years (only show up to 2019 today), and many of the graphs used in this video are up to 2010, it is significantly more skewed towards the top now. The middle class is a shadow of what it once was, only the $15 min wage may make the stats look decent, but that itself was mega corps like amazon forcing competitors to pay more for labor, because they already had a massive automation advantage... then the other companies have to fill more roles with fewer employees, so even entry level jobs require 5 years exp to work in a grocery store... corporate greed, stockholder wealth over stakeholder wealth... more money concentration more control.
I work in a small manufacturing plant, we make metal parts (cups, cones, spacers, some aerospace parts) for a few bigger companies. I’m only 21 and finally feel like I can somewhat do things on my own besides a few certain changes to dimensions and how to actually write a program. I should probably try to start taking a few classes to help myself. I also really enjoy working out for my mental health and I’m really weak in general. There is little to no time left in the day to do even work and go workout. Thankfully I still live with my parents and only have to pay for my car loan. About 3-4 years ago, our company was bought out and got 2 new bosses due to the old owner finally retiring. One boss actually knows reality of the workplace and the other just wants everyone to be a complete robot and half a few people make sure the machines are running properly while others get parts out and check them. This dude expects maximum efficiency when we have to deal with bullshit material that isn’t cut straight cuz we have fucked up saws in the back. Like he just doesn’t understand reality it’s crazy
Not to mention I get paid shit and even the actual well knowledged machinists don’t get paid great and this boss wants to hire people that don’t know anything and just click a button, very smart business plan and we’re already starting to really struggle
I work for CAT. I see all these old folks breaking their body for no reward. And I refuse. Were union so we make the same, I get 7.5 machine hours a day and 1st shift gets mad at me because he gets 10-12 machine hours a day. But he doesn’t understand he’s doing it to himself.
Haha I laugh about it now, but this happened to me. I automated a manual entry process with a tool and they let all but one person (he was the longest tenured) go, including myself. That guy was my friend and went and asked for a raise since he was doing all the work and he left a few months later lol
I ran a warehouse for a solar company. I had to keep track of 32 trucks their maintenance and who was assigned to them. Their registration and insurance. AND I had to clean the insides and make sure they were stocked.... that was JUST the trucks. I also had an inventory of roughly 4 to 5 million dollars worth of solar panels and Tesla power walls (batteries). I had to know the pipeline months in advance and have the jobs kitted wrapped and ready to load up the the night before. I was also in charge of purchasing any and all parts required to finish the job. All for 19.50 an hour. 4 am to 6 pm Monday through Saturday. I asked for a raise after 2 years and they said "We will see." So naturally I fucked everything up and put in my 2 weeks. I still get emails asking me to come back its been almost 2 years. 😂😂😂
They will run us into the ground and act like a 50 dollar amazon gift card is a good "bonus" 😅
@Abraxas99x that's insane man, good on you to get out and hopefully find something better
@@andywalker7081 went to another solar company took my knowledge of how everything worked got battery certified and they almost immediately gave me a project management position. I make my own schedule and got a company car out of it. Heads up to anyone needed a 30 hr job. Solar is booming for Enphase Battery certified personel and its like a free 8 hour course. But the industry is like omegle you gotta pick the one that's not just a huge dick. 😅
@@andywalker7081 No joke they JUST called me again asking how I was! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 It's like they KNOW I'm talking shit!
Average employee health plan family deductible in 2008: $1658
Average employee health plan family deductible in 2020: $4500
(Source: National Institutes of Health)
We don't qualify for medicaid, but we can't afford insurance because it cost 40% of our annual income. That sure looks like some affordable care.
Anytime the government names a bill, expect the opposite.
The Patriot Act was unpatriotic.
The Affordable Care Act was unaffordable.
The Inflation Reduction Act reduced nothing.
@@dobermanownerforlife3902 EXACTLY. I was in the military when the PATRIOT act was passed. My coworkers and I thought they were joking when they announced they were creating a US Committee for State Security... err.. I mean "Department of Homeland Security"
@@pjpleiss me too. The patriot act is why I turned down a 25k reinlistment bonus.
Essayons!
Homedepot has a separate work force, to do inventory, you can tell when you see their uniform, and now apparently they have different ppl to do repairs on equipment.
its not that work is getting worse, its the salaries that are just not keeping up with tge cost of living
The issue with the "has anyone improved their job" metric is that it's still constrained by the system of job availability being a churn. The rate of improvement relies directly on a rate of drop for other people. The "it's just harder" means the trend of churn is going down rather than letting people improve their circumstances.
I feel like Asmon's channel is basically becoming a talk show for middle aged gamers
"middle aged"
Always has been 💁🏼♂️
I think you're right.. I'm 32 lmao
We out here dawg
48 here. Now I'm going to take my bp meds.
I quit my job when the eliminated a position on my team and gave us nothing to deal with all that extra work with no change in compensation
Just got done working at a restaurant for roughly 7 years, there is a huge difference from paying the staff hourly and working for tips. Hourly staff members were cooks, cleaners, back house people you would normally never see, hosts working the phones and registers. The only ones working for tips were waiters and waitresses and a bad night they made around $80 in tips plus $4 an hour on a 5 hour shift, a good night same hours could make $300 in tips and the best night over $800. Most I paid out in tips for a single night to one person was over $1,200. If I paid 30+ people on my crew $1,200 a shift or $240 an hour damn right my prices would be going up. Even if it was the average and say $280 ish a night, $56 an hour times only the 5 waiters / waitress on that shift then double that for the 2nd shift. That would cost me $2,800 more a day on top of the food cost and the other 23-27 other staff members hourly wages. The only way I could see that not effecting my prices would be if I paid every staff member $15 an hour and kept all tips for myself. I don't think anyone who makes $300 a night would be willing to say hey I would rather do the same amount of work and only keep $75 and I really don't think I could get em to give up the nights they make well over $600-$800.
It makes me absolutely sick seeing how much of my check goes to SSI knowing that I may never get any of that back. It's almost as much as my Federal withholdings, which are also insane. And WAYYYYYYY more than State taxes.
Also, 5-10 years of payments is how SS benefits were ALWAYS meant to work. It was never meant to be a 20+ year retirement plan. People are more unhealthy now, but they are still living longer because of all of the drugs and treatments we have to counteract the ailments that come from obesity and generally unhealthy living.
@@Brekner you, me and millions of others. We should be free to opt out and invest our money however we want. Some politicians have tried to bring that idea on the floor, but they need our money to fund this for our aging demographic.
Abolish the federal government ?
I’m loosing huge amounts of my paycheck to taxes alone. I’m losing $1400+ a month in taxes. For what? It doesn’t seem like our taxes are being used for the benefit of the country but rather the benefit of the elite.
@@JRF32185 The amount you receive in retirement is directly tied to how much you contribute. If you contribute nothing you get nothing in retirement. Your comment shows your ignorance
@@TheAwesomeness1123 I amended my reply to cause less confusion. Obviously you have to pay into SSI to receive the benefits (or be a family member of a contributor who did). But part of the reason we are into this mess is that we have an aging demographic of a lot more elderly people not working than we have people paying into SSI.Technically those people who are contributing now are funding SSI for people who are no longer contributing. And because of both normal inflation and hyper inflation, what those retirement age people did contribute is not nearly what we are contributing now and what they actually need to live off of SSI. They paid their dues, but that doesn't change the fact that we are in a mess for those reasons. Also, you CAN get more back from SSI than you contributed, depending on what you contributed and how long you live after you initially start receiving the benefits.
In 1973 the US came off the gold standard and adopted a fiat monetary system. A fiat monetary system has inflation built into it. Inflation is a back-door tax in which the government spends and creates debt. Then, they decrease the value of the currency so when they repay the debt its real value is lower than when the government originally borrowed. However, this also causes the cost of goods to go up faster than what businesses will increase in work pay. Once the US came off the gold standard the American worker was doomed and the middle class will continue to be destroyed.
Slow but it will continue until no one can afford anything but the elite.
Pretty much this. And Socialism isn't the answer where the government will have even more money and waste it even more..
@@Robocrap Please socialism is the better alternative. It's not just printing money. It's about holding corporations accountable and taxing them appropriately, And the workers own the means of production nothing to do with government
@@raetavia8223 lmao… socialism is just a precursor to communism. Last time I checked, socialistic/communistic countries aren’t holding their government and large corporations accountable. The true answer is that it’s much more complex and pointing the finger at one thing isn’t going to fix it. Also, I think communism/socialism works well in a small community, but when you have a large governing body at the top, then corruption eventually finds its way there if it hasn’t already. It doesn’t matter what we do in the US because the people with the money are the ones who will always have the most control. If we want change, people need to stop playing sheep first.
@@raetavia8223 "hold corporations accountable" so regulations?
You do realize capitalism can have regulations against big business.
Your vibe is so chill and cool, glad I found you. Last month kombucha was $2.99, now it's $4.49. This is insane. I work at a food place so I get tons of food for free and save so much. I'd like to get something more in my skill set, but at the rate these food prices are going up, I ain't going nowhere!
Inflation only went up like 3 percent. Capital owners use it as an excuse to inflate profit. They hit record profit year after year. They literally have to. Because it’s a flaws system
I think what we need to do is decouple certain aspects of life from the market entirely. I think we need to make more things utilities and the like. Focus on reducing cost of living, maybe even use a different metric to measure it. As much as I don't like it at the end of the day predatory monitization in games might make them less fun, but I still have food water and shelter, I'd prefer if we focus and priotize those things that matter, then slowly expand that list. I don't need the free market to innovate a new kind of house for me, I just need a place to sleep.
It’s funny to me how people never stop talking like you even though people like you have a 100% failure rate on actually improving things.
@@bhec7715 I'm talking just talking about putting some better regulations on important things like we have for food, water, electricity, etc. Those have been absolute improvements and you can look to places that have privatized water access to see it's a really bad idea.
I closed for an entire month for my Super Target during the entire holiday season
I was a minor in high school and it was totally illegal, but I was the only one willing to do it
Convientetly, my managers found out I was a minor after the holiday rush
How convenient. At least you were willing.
Damn he got you for the low low! 😢
I'm sorry that happened. I know it's probably not the worst thing to happen but still probably annoying to think about now and again.
did you roller skate with a beautiful girl? and make her dinner in the cafe? I think I saw your movie.
How is that even possible when u get hired they need ur id for tax purposes
Heyo target employee here an boy I got shit to make your head spin. One example: my TL had shown all of us an email from corporate demanding they write/couch us more because no one was getting in trouble for over 5 months. Now flash to today our entire shift (overnight) is gone they didn’t even say shit till the final week. Which many have kids and families to take care of. Another example: Our store director (she Spanish) celebrated juneteenth (which isn’t bad but) she mass ordered fried chicken, watermelon, and grape cool aid. She didn’t get fired but I bet my paycheck if it was a white male or female they would have been. Regardless of color that was racist af and she should have been let go. I got tons more stories including shit happening rn but I won’t rant any longer.
Ever since i was born i Haven't seen one thing get better, not one, so i ain't surprised
Hey, they say we might get cancer vaccines by 2030 and Alzheimer cures by 2040... although those may not be accessible in a country with a healthcare system like the US...
Your penis ???
Jk
Porn is much better, so is fetishes and niche hobbies like gaming and music creation. Some classics will always be peak tho.
Sure Jan
@@erikrulez17 it has just a little since Elon Musk took over Twitter
The problem is, just like everything else, its not just right or wring, there are so many levels of pros and cons that need to be looked at, the real issue is a lack of checks and balances, regulations that create a safer work soace than we have now. Lobbying is one thing that needs to be looked at in great detail because in a lot of cases it is being used to thwart many of the freedoms that we have and used to have.
Uhm, increasing wages either is allowed to eat into the margins of the company ( not going to happen and shouldn't). So the common two ways to deal with wage increases are A increase prices to maintain margins aka inflation...B cut staff to maintain the same payroll costs. B doesnt cause inflation but creates more stress on the workers and a worse service or good.
The poor are the only ones in America who are told to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps". But the rich who take advantage of us all are literally bailed out and venerated. We have socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor. Rich folks who "make it" almost always have "help" from others, but they don't acknowledge this later in life after they accumulate their wealth...
"I started as a junior manager on my father's company, then i climbed the ranks and now i'm CEO, all through hard work, no luck or anything like that involved, if i can do it, everyone can!".
Or my favorite:
"i started this company from 0, all by myself, my father, who already owns a huge company, only gave me a meager 1 million dollars to start out, and then i worked hard and made this company what it is today, if i can do it, anyone can!".
^^ Vast majority of those people you described lol, and like, i have no problem with that, you have rich parents that help you, that's awesome, my problem is them trying to sell this idea of "anyone can do it", but they always hide these "small details" that i mentioned in my examples.
I work at a company where it is sec 8. The amount of poor people who just sit at home and collect checks is also a Problem.if your poor the only person who gets you out of that situation is you.
@@davidkunkle3262 For sure. I worked my life away as a wage slave and have nothing to show for it. I might as well have just sat around and gotten drunk all day... Why work for a wage that you can't even live on? The grind might work for you... but stuff like that can only last so long... most small businesses don't make it... There is merit in hard work, it's just that the profits are not shared with the workers in the US.
@@produceman13 nice give another excuse. Like I said I've worked in the industry for 20 years and that's not the attitude of these people. It's I need my check and I deserve the money. Not only that is damaging the future if you're poor you can't pass down Wealth but you can pass down knowledge. The knowledge that is being passed down to these kids is how to live off the government. I have literally seen generations of tenants were their kids grow up get pregnant before they're 18 and are on section 8 by the time they're 18. You're giving excuse for why people aren't even trying to work for a living. If your plan is to get a job at McDonald's after high School no s*** you would want to be on government help. You say it solves a problem. that is no way to live trust me I see it everyday. This isn't me thinking it like you. I see the destruction and how these people live and that's no life to have or want for someone. The real problem is the corrupt government that has sent all of our jobs overseas allows these companies to get away with slave labor overseas while we suffer here. Also section 8 is another system that incentivizes the mother-to-be single. I could go on forever about how destructive this lifestyle is. That is for the majority of people. There are some people that have nice clean houses go to work and pay the majority of their bills. If that was the overwhelming majority of people I wouldn't even have an issue. I can tell you that's not even close.
@@davidkunkle3262Excuse me, but the government did not force companies overseas. Nor, did it create our extremely large portion of poor communities. The government is simply the reflection of the dominate powers within a society. Those of whom, over the coarse of generations, have derailed a significant population from making gains. Generational wealth, property, and education has played a much larger role in those doomed communities. Welfare families are a syptom of a much larger problem...
An example of socialism that works are the developer of Dead Cells, Motion Twin. They are not a company but a worker cooperative and describe themselves as anarcho-syndicalist which mean they take all important decisions together, get equal salaries and equal share of the profit they make from their games. They made one of the greatest game of 2018 so it's proof that it can work at least on a small scale. Of course it's easier to do something like that with 11 people compared to thousands or millions.
BUT SOCIALISM DOESNT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!
DONT YOU KNOW THAT THE GHOST OF STALIN IS GOING TO POSSESS EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE TO CAPITALISM?????????????????
THIS IS WHY YOU MUST ACCEPT CAPITALISM FOREVER INTO PERPETUITY!!!!!!!!! STOP COMPLAINING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It works as long as the people are free to opt into such a thing, rather than forced to partake in that system.
Personally, I prefer merit to pay off more fairly than an equal share. Not everyone adds an equal value to a company or project. That school project where two people did most of the work and the other three did fuck-all? That doesn't end moving into adulthood.
much of the productivity is due to automation which simplifies the work needed to produce the goods. many of the items used to be made by hand which required more skill and labor. now many factories are just pushing a button and watching the machine and just making sure it runs like it’s suppose to.
Usually when the owner comes in to work the kitchen the staff collectively groans. Cause they know he is hoing to mess shit up or get in the way.
The drive for automated workforce is a big factor in this, especially when you see self check-out areas and only like one or two people on the registers, and even though they have a bunch of the registers sitting there empty they refused to hire any more people, essentially eliminating job opportunities for more people
@@darkshad0wbee483 you’ve never worked a register, have you? You don’t need to know anything other than basic math (addition, subtraction, etc) because the computer does the math for you
You say that likes it’s a bad thing. We NEED to phase out service jobs from our economy with automation.
@@domerame5913 No, what will happen is that service industry workers will find a new job in other fields. If you believe in the billionaire overlord theory like a lot of leftists you’d realize they already have taken that option into account and history shows they’ll move to another job market.
@@domerame5913 I think that’s an unfair question. The honus of proof is on you. Tell me what industries AI will completely take over and kick most/all humans out of?
@@domerame5913 For what? What is the point of phasing out service workers if they will phase out the consumers that spend money at their stores?
@40:40 tbf, Asmon, the title of the video isn't Why Work is Getting Worse (and how to fix it). It's just a video showing reasons why work is getting worse.
"I don't think any specific world view is to blame (neolib), I think the people with the money to make this happen are."
This is literally neoliberalism.
How does one rack up 100k in credit card debt? Largest line I've EVER gotten was 1k at age 45. I couldn't get my first credit card until I was 27, and that was a 50 buck store credit line. 100k is 5 years pay for me BEFORE taxes. I can't even conceive of having that much credit to blow.
Here's a crazy idea. The reason social security and similar programs are at risk of becoming insolvent is because the same thing. Social security doesn't get paid into by the ultra wealthy who pay less wealthy accountants to skirt all SS taxes. The middle and lower income classes pay into SS every single paycheck, but because of this same problem its not enough. Cost of goods and living increases and SS benefits are worth less. The taxes from wages from people who pay them are worth less money.
Ultra wealthy pay SS and often opt out of benefits because they don't need the money.
That indeed,
add the runaway, unaudited military budget of the country
($800+ Billion dollars this year alone) Billion with a 'B'.
Makes his
"buy less bombs statement" truly something to consider.
Between that and the fair tax contribution by the wealthy, you could almost eliminate child poverty in America.
But some boardroom of shareholders somewhere would vote it down probably.😕
Not exaggerating.
As to the iq thing it seems, at least in my head to be a logical measurement. I always questioned my intelligence at a young age but after getting out into the real world and seeing a clear difference between people who seem to just get things and understand them quickly and many that don't. In all of the manufacturing jobs I've worked which have seemed like brain dead monotonous work there are still SO many people I've worked with that can't do the same thing for months or quite literally never seem to figure out how to work efficiently.
IQ has never been a big deal to me either. You learn at your own pace, and then you're either able to do the task or you can't.
@@danielmaster8776 correct but imho every work it's a matter of brain patterns. Fundamentally during school your focus should be to find what can be a job that matches you better in your way of thinking. I.E.. I can't do visual stuff, nor mechanics. But i can pretty much reverse engineer any software source code.
@@danielmaster8776 well if your pace is slow then your IQ is low, that's how it works. It measures how fast you can learn something. "Everybody has different pace" well no shit, it means that everybody has different IQs.
Vegetable/sunflower oil in Denmark used to be 0,29 dollars for 1 liter.. now one year later, its almost 4,50 dollars. 😬😬 (yes i know its because of the war, but its also affected by inflation and i were just trying to make an example of how things have changed recently, very recently and how your paycheck havent changed much at all)
From what I understand the lowering of minor worker laws in the states he mentioned is related to farms and how farmers families usually have to start working at very early ages but the laws say they're not allowed to do the jobs they need to do. I started working picking tobacco at 14 in the late 80's...saw kids get hurt quite a bit.
I worked in the toy industry and everything he says really resonates. As a designer in the USA, we are overworked and underpaid, expected to work overtime and weekend, unpaid. If someone quits or gets laid off, they don’t replace them but spread out their tasks among the remaining staff. Basically no work/life balance and terrible work culture. I was fortunate to lose my job during COVID (company lost all sales and was make $0) and become a SaHM on one family income (families able to function on one income in the past vs needing multiple incomes today, and putting babies in expensive daycare at 4 weeks old is a whole other rant).
But the conditions in China are absolutely worse! They don’t get weekends off, so they are constantly working. They get a few weeks off twice a year, and they are all from villages that take a couple of days to get back to by bus. They are paid literally nothing and everything they make they send back to their families living in the villages. When people say “bring factories back to the US!” I have to explain to them that you don’t want that. First, those factories product so much pollution that they are a only allowed to be in specific zones allotted to them in China. Second, because these people make so little money for their hard labor, bringing the work here would make the prices of everything skyrocket. All the factories here operate with machines/robotics anyways so it wouldn’t create the jobs you’d think it would. And yes, the workers in China make so little money that factories using robotics are waaaaay more expensive. That’s how cheap the human labor is in China.
I really liked this video, this (and healthcare, imo) are the 2 topics that really matter. Everything else is just noise.
so... you rather have factories to be more environmentally hazardous half way across the world with slave labor wages and hours because it would be cheaper and robots would be used here anyway?
@@lordjaraxxus5418 do you have a better solution?
@@Warrenoh tax goods from foreign adversaries (china, russia, etc) to make it at least more fair to compete with made in America. There would be carbon footprint savings just from not sending materials from here, to china, and back. Hell, even change China's status from a developing country to (I forgot the other term) so they don't get subsidized shipping (basically developed countries subsidized the shipping of developing countries).
@@lordjaraxxus5418 I mean yeah thats a start, but these big corporations are going to make sure they can keep their costs as low as possible
@@Warrenoh like hiring illegal immigrant children to work in factories? Yes, this is happening.
im 5 minutes in and im already depressed
think imma go skip to something happier lol
@@marllonluizsilva2556 true, the solution is the idea that has never worked
saved your brain cells, wise choice
skip the comments too. every one is an expert , went to school to get a good job, but are still unhappy about their life and job. Others are lucky to enjoy their work. Social media is fucking depressing.
I had a good day today at work, pushing shopping carts until I clicked this video.
@@joelc5923 word bro
i enjoy my job and the people there, im a baggage handler at the airport
but then i think about making enough money to provide a family in the future, which is when it gets real tough
@@marllonluizsilva2556 no it's greed, blaming capitalism is dishonest, until you find a way to fix greed, the economic system you use won't change that
I worked at a retailer when I was 16 and dumb and I swear we did so many OSHA violations. I have a permanent shoulder impingement issue from hauling 300 pound reclining sofas over a 1.5 foot gap on a broken loading dock as well as carrying memory foam mattresses up 10 ft racks on wheeled ladder stairs all by myself.
On top of that money from loans, credit cards, etc Is created out of thin air at the moment of the transaction. Which means that $100k in credit card debt did NOT come out of a company's pocket to start with, the credit card company can't lose money because they only loan out newly created money based on a fraction of what they have in reserve. Fractional reserve banking.
Asmongold watching Second Thought, the crossover I never knew I needed
i can't even find an offer to apply for because everybody now expects 2-3 years of experience and a baggage of IT knowledge meanwhile I have master's degree in economics.... Idk what to do. I guess I will become a youtuber at least it is gonna be fun.
You should have known economics is a Ponzi scheme for the elite lol.
Regarding wages causing inflation - it depends. For example, back in belarus government was printing money in order to give goverment owned factories economic support and increase wages. And in that case it had spiraled into hyperinflation several times.
They can already automate most unskilled labor. However, there are large tax incentives for employing lots of people so big companies don't always do that... until minimum wage is pushed beyond the tax incentive.
These kind of vids where Asmon spits common sense on issues most ppl know the truth about but are too afraid to admit or talk about are my favorite....
Most Americans actually have no clue how inflation works.
@@MikeSW most americans (American here) have no idea how to critically think - even through common sense things like the relationship between (IQ) averages and population sizes. Easier just to shout at the "other" and repeat what they hear.
@@MikeSW I love and listening to so many macro econ podcasts. Let me tell ya, the last 5 years or so I have delved into this subject. I have met maybe 3 people that can talk economics, trades, inflation deflation. Seems like people love money but dont understand how it works. Inflation isnt because of capitalism. Its because of fiat currency that goes buuuuurrrrrrrr. Americans need finance classes in school. I sure as hell wish I had learned it. We are seeing keynesian econ in practice right now. We need Austrian economics. Markets cant just keep going up and up. Its like a car running out of coolant, you keep running it hot with no break or cool down (deflation) your gonna blow the thing up.
Surprisingly that is not common sense.
Ive quit 4 jobs since covid. Its not even the work its the people. People arw fkn crazy and annoying
I've been working at the same place for almost 2 years now. People keep quitting because the place is awful, because there's less people they ask us to work harder for the same pay. Then the only people who stay are the people who desperatly need the money to survive like me... and you end up with a workspace full of selfish people who dont want to do their job but are only there to get by. Everyone trying to do as less as possible, effing everyone over.
@@LeonardoTheMomo I am that person. I will do bare minimum to stay and i they cant fire me for it. And others should do the same. Work smart not hard. Fuck the higher ups, just do you.
fast food is either extremely intense or so easy/boring that you just never know what to expect lol. I worked in a McDanks in a busy area. And sometimes Id literally stand around for hours and other days we were so busy we couldn't keep up. And it seemed completely random which days too. With the exception always being super busy around lunch and dinner time on the weekends
Anecdote: I’ve watched a lot of people come to work in manufacturing from a typical food service job … most quit within a week. It’s not easy being treated like a machine 60 hours a week.
Yeah! You should try it 😉 bet you won’t. Lol
Man when you dont know how to feel about a subject but still want to see it happen
People keep talking about how everyone broke but I keep seeing people shopping and driving around cars they purchased at 32% APR. Wish I had that much credit.
Supply and demand. Supply of labour go up, price for labour go down. Women entering the workforce nearly doubling the supply of labour plus increased immigration plus off-shoring labour to other countries, yeah no shit the price of labour will stagnate. Terrible policies that savaged the working class.
In New Zealand, a block of cheese is 16 dollars for 1kg for 3 litres of milk its over 6 dollars and we are a farming nation gas depending on your car is 80 plus dollars for a tank Rent is 500 minimum a week
“It’s beneficial for ppl who have a lotta money for this to happen” that’s just indirectly saying this is caused by neo-liberal capitalism
What is neo-liberalism?
Postmodern dumbocracy
@@MikeSW basically the alt right
Very true. I consider myself blessed because I have an awesome job with the government that pays 80k a year, get pension for life, free health and dental, and 4 months off every year (paid) I’m a college teacher but it wasn’t always like that for me. Got the job a year ago and up until then, I worked for private companies making 33k a year and was ALWAYS broke. Sad that the only way I could make money is to work for the government: just goes to show that companies don’t care about you. The only school I finished is trade school (electrician) honestly, that’s the way to go now.
OH and government does? try telling that to the people in Concentration camps or the Gulag take your pic.
@@tau12usr85 wtf are you talking about???
@@tau12usr85 clown
I think the important thing to take from this is the link between iq and jobs, we can replace a lot of jobs with tech, but we cant give the dumb people the tech jobs, we need to make them smarter but education budgets are getting slashed or going to the wrong places
I agree with Asmon on a lot of things. Except his view to not pay your credit card for things you chose to buy.
Asmon is a scummy guy, he has said it himself. Still love him
With a major shortage in people with trade skills, ie the guys that install, program, wire up, and maintain the automation systems, has created a spike in value to people who have the right skills.
Substantial increase to what's offered, and guys like me get recruiters reaching out nonstop.
The college or bust messaging us middle aged people grew up hearing, worked. Now we are seeing them try to fix that as we see the older generation retire, it's leaving a giant hole that we can't fill.
@@Gungrave123 I can assure you that is not true, in a factory or large facility setting. Maybe for some turnkey machine, like a hot dog stand. But the automation taking "all" the jobs is being done in large facilities, and I can assure you being installed, programmed, and maintained by electricians, mechanics, and automation techs, none fall under what I consider white collar.
And still hordes of floor associates, in highly automated facilities.
@@Gungrave123 most automation process aren't setup with complex code.
Now the way some distribution places are setup, maybe that is being done at a higher level. But the machine that picks stuff up and sets it on conveyors is likely programm on site, and adjust as needed by someone with dirty hands
Id do trade skills but i aint working 10+ hours a day picking up someones slack
Was in management and insurance and it was so toxic. When took U-turn and worked on a production line my brain exploded at how less stressful everything became. Factories are coming back the US and yes, I do get paid less but I no longer get sick and I’m healthier because it’s a highly physical job. I have side hustles and soft income to cushion the expenses. Life is great man.
My grandads generation could work an average job while their wife stayed at home , and own a house and retire by 55 just from average wages. And he has a great pension and benefits. We have been completely conned.
I always believed that if your job gets replaced by a machine, the company should owe you a stipend
Imagine how nice it would be if we didn't have to fight wars and put billions of dollars into fighting instead we put into having a better life and living and advance our medical discovery but that's a pipe dream 😕
Count me in!
Wars Are good, it kills off the weak while the strong survive thereby benefiting humanity as a whole making us stronger
@@xblade11230 Hopefully your family will never have to experience war in real life.
@@xblade11230 May you live in interesting times.
Unfortunately we don't live in an imaginary world.
Life expectancy is actually down for like the first time in history lol
thats why you never train the new employee properly
The whole segment about going to bat for yourself was awesome man thanks for the confidence