Why are you working 8 hours per day?
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- Why don't we have a 4 hour workday? Why have wages stagnated while the revenue we produce for our companies have almost tripled since the early 1970s? Let's talk about capitalism.
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Sorry about the audio problems with this one -- we have a pretty good headset microphone that we usually use for outdoor shots but the cable broke while we were shooting the very first scene, and Vietnam is LOUD! So we had to improvise a lot! We'll try to fix it or get a new one for future location shots :D
it was a good effect, it made it real
Mate I checked the world happiness index and America is at position 18 and Vietnam at 95. Where are your statistics from, it all sounds encouraging untill I had a look myself and there is a discrepancy between your statistics and the source I used.
The stats about Vietnam having more opportunity to raise ones social class than impoverished Americans need a reference.
TOP RATE MISINFORMATION!!!
ima have to stop at 7:38.
you lost my attention.
Fought for freedom... no. fought for democracy. vs a dictatorship.
"why don't you move to a communist country?" often said by people who think immigrants shouldn't come over for a better life but instead stay and improve their country.
Yea, improve their country=remove socialism/communism in their country and make it capitalist or something like western europe atleast
@Cian McCabe What coup lol, maduros troops are running protestors over with armored cars...
@@patrickneumann5519 Maduros troops literally just had to protect Guido's stupid ass from a bunch of protestors. This view that the media told you to have isn't consistent with reality. If Maduro was this bloodthirsty dictator, then why is Guido even still alive? Why wouldn't he just order him killed?
@@patrickneumann5519 found the muppet of American pro intervention media. IE... almost all of it because oil dollars back nearly all outlets in the US mainstream.
I agree with both of those statements.
Sorry if you think so little of people improving their homes.
And yet, we're constantly being told we're just not productive enough.
So much this. Here's a student's comparison: if only your grades matter to the school, why do homework if your grades are fine because you pay attention in class (the important hours)?
When I'm doing a test or have a tutor hour, I manage to focus and actually push myself. There's a reason schools do test weeks without extra class or homework (meaning only test hours remain) and holidays before or after. It's where we actually prove our value (learnt knowledge), and aren't forced to stay extra long to wear us out.
Come On keep it going. You gotta pick it up!! Hey don't take a break just jump Right IN! to the next trailer.!!
"The most dangerous phrase in any language is, "we've always done it this way"" ...
@@tscthomas7087 most people know of Blockbuster...as a failure
People always use that excuse to continue eating and using non-human animals.
Siempre lo hemos hecho así.
@@ASMRyouVEGANyeti mean not everyone wants or needs to be vegan
I've always thought the term "human resources" gave the game away, so I'm glad you mentioned that.
JUST SAW THE BATMAN HELMET, BUSTED
Not sure as much as "human capital". Yes, my previous company's CEO said that. Somehow thought that sounded better than resources.
Excellent video comrade.
Just came to say that Thought Slime has a sexy ass face
omg thought slime commenting on a non-compete video. best team-up since MARX-ENGELS.
I'm AT work eight hours a day.
I WORK three.
And that’s a good thing? Seems very inefficient to me.
@@CK-jd1kf as long asyou get payed who cares lmao
@@DaddyAZTL Why be at work for 8 hours if you're only working 3
Kid please stop
Saaaammeeeee
8 hour day? I'm a trucker, and 12 plus is the standard and I hate it. When I question why this I necessary I get pegged as a trouble maker. What else can I expect from a group of people who believe that Oregon is a communist state because they have to put a long load sign on their set of triples.
Nothing will change if you don't struggle for your rights.
The better question than why 12 hour days are necessary is to ask if 12 hour days are even safe. I've done 12 hours in a nice sedan and feel tired and miserable and not certain that I'm entirely safe to keep driving, I can't even imagine doing it in a big rig and just how much more taxing that would be physically and emotionally. There is no way that someone is safe driving one of those after 12 or 13 hours, and I've heard of truckers brag about how they've gotten around their tracking rules so that they can do 16 plus hour days. These long days for truckers is quite literally putting profits before safety and is making very clear that money is more important than lives.
I'm not a trucker so I could be completely wrong, but if you're the kind of trucker who has to sleep in their truck regularly then I'd say your work day lasts even longer than 12 hours! Your entire life would be significantly impacted by your work even after the shift has technically ended.
@@sauron1427 let this trucker keep talking ..im feeling way better about my shitty job!
appreciate this comment...i literally dont know anyone that has an 8 hour a day job...we all work in low level service sector jobs that are 10-12 hour days. the reason i am in that position is because of a fight i got into when i was 21..........................................im 33 now, and stuck due to this "criminal" history. bachelors degree with 3.8 GPA and all that means nothing to them now..
That feel when you watch this at your day job
Agitate
Go talk to your IT manager...
He might be a comrade.
It takes me an extra 20 to 30 hours of overtime to make 245 times less than the CEO of my firm.
That really hits home.
@@markwhittaker6866 Right... but let's have you make the decisions they have to make daily and see how well you do. No offense, but there's a reason they are paid so well. They being said, CEO wages have skyrocketed, higher than what is reasonable
Damn
@@OldManShoutsAtClouds First, we don’t know if the CEO is even a good one. You don’t have be a good person to make big money. What if the CEO is actually incompetent? Still, let’s say he is a good CEO, just because he’s good at his job doesn’t mean it’s right for him to make so much money.
The worse is that you are lucky to have a stable wage.
One more thing the 8 hours or plus is used as well, as a form of control and keeping people stuck
PREACH!
Years ago, I was adjuncting at a community college and working 2-3 additional contract jobs just to stay afloat. One day someone asked me if I wanted to get involved with a local cause that sounded really exciting. However, I had to turn it down because my day jobs left me swamped and exhausted. That was when it clicked. Wages are kept low (even for those of us with undergrad and postgrad degrees) to force us to work more hours, which, in turn, keeps us too busy and consumed with maintaining the basic necessities to change the system.
Definitely!
@@1May1312 Probably the main cause why it is so costly to even run for a political office. Just like in the roman republic people are ruled by the rich.
What amazes me the most is how complacent and accepting we Americans have become of our system. I see wage strikes happening all the time in Europe and sure enough the average worker seems to have it much better than the same worker here in the States.
That's still capitalism.
Americans are more naive, which makes them much easier to fool.
@@hakeemsd70m It is the education system... it is abysmal and propogandic. While Europe was improving we were regressing during the cold war due to Red Scare nonsense, if kids were forced to pledge allegiance to communism and their nation every day in a socialist country we'd call them out for being cultish and propagandist (though propoganda is a bit of a bad term since almost everything is "propaganda" in that most things try to convey ideas, and propoganda has a bad connotation). Just really bad in general.
@@deer4927 An incredibly accurate analysis you have. I never thought of that, but yea you're right, the pledge was pure propaganda. Our system is so hypocritical it's not even funny. We've bascially been taught to go against our own interests. A socialist soceity has great benefits but of course luke you said we were taught that socialism = "bad commie dictatorship!" (Which in reality is totalitarianism, totally unrelated to leftist politics).
Even when I was a youngster, I myself was questioning things about American education, like "why are we taught that communism is state ownership when in reality it is not?," or "How come the only things we ever learn about Africa are about slavery?" The victors are those that write history to fit their own agenda, "propaganda" as you put it. I agree 100%.
@@andyt7734 Socialism is managed capitalism.
Just as a side-note, in Thailand we say "oh my, what a hideous baby you have!" in a sweet voice for the same reason. So that the baby-soul snatching spirits will think 'that ones deformed' and pass him/her up.
You'd think if _all_ the babies are apparently deformed, they'd know something's up and actually check.
@@pumpkinpartysystem no, they'll just think that Thailand is a country of deformed babies and move somewhere far away, to Europe or Australia.
This is amazing! 😂
If I ever have a Thai friend and she says that to me my new baby, I won't be offended! 😆🚼👶
Also there are many things that make life unnecessarily expensive. For example:
- urban sprawl, which forces us to either drive or pay high rent
- planned obsolescence, forcing us to buy new electronics more often than we should need to
If we fixed things like that, life would be *truly* cheaper (not just subsidized). And then we could afford life while working less hours.
here's someone using their brain!
ride a bicycle and only buy the longest lasting electronics. a quality durable phone today can last you 4 years easy, and a bicycle is wayy cheaper than a car+it keeps your cardiovascular health in good order
@@beer_4781 You can't bike into the city from the suburbs.
@@beer_4781 Riding a bike still takes you hours to get places.
@@AstarTiamat Not to mention if you're living in a segregated area like I am there are no sidewalks or even dirt paths to bike on. And the few dirt paths/sidewalks that we have are littered with dead animals, liquor bottles, cracks or pavement/pipes that jut out of the ground, heroin needles, used condoms, etc. No I don't live in Detroit. Or Iraq.
The story of the cat and the monk reminds me of a similar one; A young woman was cooking a holiday roast for the first time, and called her mother for advice, which included cutting the ends off the roast before putting it in the oven. The young woman asked her mother why, and she replied that she wasn't sure, but she had learned these things from her own mother and the roast always came out great. Unsatisfied, the young woman calls her grandmother to ask for the reason for this step in the preparation, and her grandmother explains that back in the day, they had a really small oven.
omg I love it, it really is the same lesson :D
In my house we put our toothbrushes in the freezer. My father told me that some residents in poor black neighborhoods would do this because the housing was infested with rodents and putting them in the freezer kept from from being infested by rodent germs. We don't have rodents, but we still do it in my house.
@@KhayJayArt Hey - it keeps them from getting human bathroom germs on them, which seems like a good enough reason :D
@@KhayJayArt roaches munching on toothbrushes. They won't get too far in a freezer. Smart.
@@KhayJayArt how are the frozen bristles?
This is the real red pill, isn't it?
*Goddammit!*
Yes, this is the foundational source of the isms. Make some spoiled and the vast majority to struggle, and wham you got people so busy trying to outcompete their neighbors that grab onto anything that excuses their situation and their behavior.
It's the breadpill
@@Juan_Carl0s Except under socialism - there is no bread. Prepare to eat your children.
@@damianbylightning6823That is a big brain reply, wow. When employees put their shit together and instaure workplace democracy, suddently nothing can be done and I HAVE TO EAT MY CHILDREN LIKE IN VENELUELEULA
@@ryno4ever433 That's raises a trick question. It's easy to assert that no one does. It's equally easy to say it's simple to define - it's a load of inconsistent mush that follows the path of other religions and pseudo-religions.
I swing between knowing what it is and dismissing its entire existence.
So, the answer is - yes and no.
Finally, someone makes a video about the very thing I've been thinking since 1983.
Sounds like you may have missed something in 1991
@@aubreybentley4060 seems like you missed 1936. Oh, and AD 1 through the present.
You mean 1984?
I like all the outdoor exercise parks they seem to have in Vietnam, I wish we would build more facilities ,purpose-built recreational environments, skate parks, athletics exploratoriums, pools,tracks, rails to trails, parks, green spaces etc... We should create jobs by building more of these things in cities and towns all across the country so people can walk out their door and get exercise,play, have fun.
This episode is very well-composed in its arguments and that's well worth discussing, but I'm just here to call out that glorious "dramatically taking off sunglasses as the camera spins around a statue" shot.
You could call me the Horatio-Caine-investigating-the-crime...... (dramatically pulls off sunglasses) of capitalism!
@Jack Saint 3:35 Everything's better with timestamps.
I like how this video presents arguments and views but also creates space for a discussion. well done :)
0:00 Buddhist Story:
Monk clawed by temple cat. Why do I have to tie up this cat 🐈 every morning? Ancient Master says it is nonsense. His teacher asked him to do it, and descendants made it a tradition.
2:00 Patterns of Behavior
- Trom Via
3:43 Ben Franklin
4:00 Work Hours, Strikes for 8 hours.
6:06 Choice, Hard Work, Success, Rise From Poverty?
6:53 Vietnam War. American wages stagnate. Vietnam 🇻🇳 rises up.
8:50 What does out of work mean?
9:39 A resource to be consumed. A cog in the machine.
10:38 Rich man exploits petty bourgeois and proletariat.
11:20 “Squeeze value”
11:48 “Freedom” is it really voluntary?
12:42 Illusionary Freedoms and Synthetic Freedoms.
13:30 Average cost to start a business: $30,000.
Legal Fees, Licenses, Fire Safety, Legal Codes.
14:11 Needs.
14:43 Technology will always advance (not in a Luddite society)
16:05 Serving the privileged class.
17:25 Vietnam is not a Communist country, although it has social safety nets and a high happiness rank.
19:41 It’s not a binary.
20:15 Credits.
But why?
@@davemarx7856 indeed.
@@davemarx7856 Comments like this are useful when you remember a specific statement from a video that you want to reference to someone else, or reference for a paper. Instead of having to watch the entire video again until you find the thing you wanted, you can look at this comment, skip to the context that led up to the statement, and spend 1-2 minutes rather that potentially, nearly 20
@@iisgray
You're right.
RISE UP
And people say we're free. Serfdom never ended just changed.
Sadly, I work 12 hr days and usually about 60 + hrs a week. I work for a major U.S. company.
I'm very sorry for the life that is being stolen from you.
I used to do a job with that many hours. I was working in a factory, 7am to 7pm, I felt so drained it was affecting my mental health so I ended up quitting after about 3 months.
If you find an opportunity for a better job...seize it!
Or maybe the cat was just into that kind of thing.
I would have just killed the cat. Problem solved.
@@GTSN38
Yeah, no.
Yeah
@@GTSN38 no
"What if the animal consents tho?"
You make very uplifting videos. People on the left, especially anarchists it seems to me, tend to be focused so much on critiquing stuff, and therefore often make videos that are kinda angry and negative, which is not bad, I mean it is very necessary, they are right to be angry. But I must also admit that your optimism is a very welcome alternative, because i think we need to show that the world we are imagining is ultimately cheerful and optimistic.
I agree, actually if you go back through my video history I've made plenty of negative videos (I'm not so good at being angry on camera, I kind of just come off as whiney, lol) but I do want to try to build a positive message for leftism, so it makes me feel good that you pointed that out :) Thanks for the kind words and for watching!
I think that's mainly true on YT because the leftube community is still pretty young and starting to grow, and before you have an audience it's way easier to do criticism of other content.
If you look over history however, anarchists have been almost obsessed with writing books explaining their ideas to the world-
Most anarchists are depressed. They may not directly recognize it, but the constant mood that work is unnecessary and people on top of you are always trying to rip you off gets depressing after a while.
@@NonCompete I share the same view, it was indeed a refreshing attitude towards discussing the issues. The only thing I would change is providing more solutions on how we can actually push these agendas. What can we in the grand scale of society do? What can those of us individually do? I see everyone pointing out problems but nobody coming up with solutions.
I like to think there is some steps you can do to not let a capitalist society hold too much power over you. Credit card debt is not guaranteed on you just because you grew up in a low income family and work a minimum wage job. I see people all the time complaining they live paycheck to paycheck and can't do X, yet next month see them bragging about going on yet another trip to Disney World. Or eating out every weekend which is super expensive. Going to NFL games and buying all the merch, getting a new car every two-four years, etc. Everyone is feeding the very system that is draining them.
@@eutizo Yes. It's a very dibilitating system. Work hard to make other people uber wealthy while we struggle to get by. I think the american dream has morphed into this idea that we have to rip each other off to get ahead. The problem is getting ahead.... how far ahead do these oligarchs need to be? Some of them make 1000x that of their lowest paid employees. It's a bunk system. And we wonder why depression and drug use is a problem...
40 hours a week if you're lucky. My software jobs always had an expectation that I should work 50 to 60 hours a week.
I work at a community newspaper owned by a large conglomerate and our contract demands a minimum of 45 hours a week, not including the inevitable overtime when it's your turn to cover weekend events. Oh and the overtime isn't paid (you can convert it to leave but it expires after a month)
@@SpoopySquid Converting overtime to leave is one of the most insidious new developments in HR practices, but that expiration thing is TERRIBLE! You should radicalize the paper into an commie propaganda press
:D
@@SpoopySquid I wish I could convert my overtime into leave. It's not even tracked :(
I am a factory worker and now we are mostly back down to 40 hour work weeks and it is making me nervous, definitely not the norm for my line of work.
What a great opportunity to make lots of money, contribute to your 401k and retire early!
I'll add another one to the Buddhist story
My grandma always says to my mom to not cut nails in night (my nails in childhood) I was like why. But after some years I understood that the reason was that there was no electricity and cutting nails in night leads to injuries. But my grandma as you said never questioned her elders and so here we are. Gotta tell this to my grandma
Ahh yes, 8 hours a day; i remember my first part time job.
Why is it happening? Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher..........
Finding a job is still a massive headache. I live in Scotland and graduated high school with an advanced higher qualification, yet I still struggle to land basic retail jobs because I lack experience. Yet I cannot purely focus on volunteering since I need the money from those basic jobs to live.
I did work for burger king for a week. It was hell. I was scheduled for 37.5 hours per week, which turned into around 46. And since my wage at the time was £5.80 (Below the national living wage) per hour due to my age bracket. I would not have made enough over a year to be required to pay tax.
I have 7 long years ahead of me in education to first get the rest of the grades I need to get into uni and then study at uni myself, so I can then get a degree in my field of study. As such i would still need a job alongside my study.
I like that this video is made in a way that people who might be opposed to the presented ideas, because "we always did it this way", are invited to rethink their position. This style of video is not antagonizing, it may open up discussions with good faith people.
Keep up the good work. "The left"(tm) needs this kind of "outreach".
This is classic cult indoctrination via propaganda. Note how the video offers no substantive, quantifiable arguments. Just speculative rhetoric. The claims made are generally unsubstantiated. Note also how all of it is positioned as "good". No one can argue against making things better for the working class in good faith, so by omitting the actual proposals the message is made more palatable to the layman. In truth, cults often reserve the darker or less socially acceptable dogma for the initiated. That's precisely what is taking place here.
@@pacifactor So your anecdotal experiences with illegal immigrants and cheapskate bosses led you to believe we need additional regulations which will lead to decreased productivity while continuing to reward those same lazy, incompetent slackers? Please explain how that would work.
I found it very interesting to watch but couldn't help to think "What's so wrong with an 8 hour a day, 40 hour work week". Assuming you have 8 hours sleep, that still leaves a whole 8 hours to do whatever and 2 days to do whatever.
@@327legoman Nothing is wrong with it inherently. I believe in an anarchist society you can "work" as long as you like. This Video is about not HAVING to work for 8h a day.
@@Rogi1988 But we do live in a society where you can 'work' for as little or as long as you like. You just won't get paid as much unless you do work. And even if you don't, so long as you prove you're looking for work you can still get paid.
I absolutely love that you mentioned the hypocrisy of the 'financial crisis' at 8:50. We still have homes, we still have food, but people start losing their homes and their food over sheer unwillingness to give away stuff for free. Disgusting system we live in.
Great channel, keep it up!!
I'm binging all your videos instead of doing my books right now (which is 10PM). So much good info! Gonna grab some popcorn after.
Really glad you enjoy, I'm gonna have some popcorn today now in the spirit of collectivism :D
You know things are rigged when you struggle to even get unpaid time off from your job. Just work...every damn day...
I've noticed a lot of people seem to have this feeling that we're lucky to be working 8 hours a day. Or that we should just be happy with it because it isn't that bad and it's just "the way things are". But things don't have to be this way! Why have we stagnated and become complacent?!
In all of my jobs working in restaurants and bistros, I could’ve done all of the constant tasks (prep food, inventory, cleaning and some managerial stuff in excel) in like 4 hours if I did it in a serious matter, like I would do that really calmly and kinda slow just to stretch the work to last 9 hours because otherwise I wouldn’t have much or nothing to do for several hours.
As someone who works 72 to 84 hours a week, videos like this are always on my mind while im toiling 12 hours a day away...
The production quality is really good, you deserve way more viewers.
RIP former Yugoslavia....communist but had a high degree of actual workplace democracy/worker control. United a multi-ethnic state and kept the peace. Once the USSR fell, it was no longer useful to the West and they conspired cause it to rip itself apart.
At my current job, my boss considers coming in at 10-11 and leaving at 2-3 to be a “hard working, long day.” I’m there from 9-5, grinding out 3x-4x what I should at my pay grade, and none of the promised benefits and raises have come to me.
It’s rediculous that he contributes nothing (indeed, less than nothing, as I am often undoing his work) yet walks home with $100+k/yr and complains about how lazy I am. But that’s how capitalism works, I guess. He’s rich, so everything he does is correct.
Why not try to find a new job? I mean it sounds like this current job could disappear at any time since they obviously don't care about you, so best to be prepared...
root Actually I quit because he just up and decided one day that I was “lazy” and therefore he didn’t have to pay me for a month’s work. So now I have to sue his stupid ass in addition to working at a new job.
I was fired the next day after asking for a higher pay :)
Very sorry to hear that comrade. This is why workers must organize and ultimately own our own labor. Solidarity!
I work an 8 hour work day, but I only spend 4 hours actually producing work. I spend two hours consuming lectures on what I work on later in the day and the remaining two hours are lunch and coffee buffered at the end to fit into my on the hour block schedule.
I completely agree that it generally is inefficient to work 8 hours a day. Problem is, how can we convince our boss(es) to show this and how can we convince them that working less is beneficial to both parties? They will just feel that I will ‘cost more’ since I ‘work less’. I would love it if I had more free time to do things I love, but I cannot think of how I could convince my higher ups of this.
This takes the “coming to you from different locations” schtick to another level...
this got me thinking, we created robots to make the working more efficient yet people still worry about the system leaving them to die in exchange for a machine that works 24/7. capitalism's contradictions glow in the dark when innovation create problems instead of helping people.
As a young person, my perception of the past is probably flawed. However, the classical perception of young people in the 60s/70s was hippie, anarchist and anti-capitalist, people that didn't want to engage with a materialist, exploitative system. But when I look at other people my age, they all seem to be as entrenched in the capitalist system as older people.
It just seems weird to me that young folk went from rebellious and standoffish to capitulating and materialistic.
Generation Z isn't very rebellious or proactive. Vaping and staring at their smart phones all day is the most edgy thing they do. Some of them think they're better than millennials but they're worse.
"Oh, we grew up in the recession. We're poor. Unlike those spoiled millennials."
If you're poor then who paid for that smart phone you're using? Millennials didn't have high speed internet or digital TV or smart phones growing up! You're not that poor. Blow it out your ass, Gen Z!!!
@Mitchell Couchman Immigrants haven't driven down wages so much as corporations have. Large corporations have lobbied to keep all working class wages (including the minimum wage which for the first time in history hasn't been raised in 10 years) at an all time low. They then scapegoat the immigrants in order to keep the mobs from coming after *them.* It's a divide and conquer technique. Divide the plebs so that the patricians can continue to rule unopposed by protests and uprisings. Scapegoating is a tactic as old as civilization. They also divide us among political party and distract us with pointless social issues that prevent us from seeing the bigger picture. Our country has never been more divided politically and the elites like it because we ignore THEM when we fight among ourselves. But we all have them (the wealthiest 1% who are in charge and control everything) as a common enemy. We must unite.
@Mitchell Couchman If people were smart they'd realize that Democrat and Republican voters should find common ground in taking down the narcissistic ruling class trash.
Yet, you typed your comment on a computer/phone. Ironic.
Sean Michaels what
This is definitely my favorite video you've made so far!
Dude, just listening to you is already therapeutic. I think about these things everyday. But unless we're crazy, we can't turn things around by ourselves. Just the discourse is relaxing for me.
This video makes me really miss my time in Vietnam.
In Iceland you compliment a cute baby by saying its "so much an asshole"/"svo mikið rassgatt". Never figured that one out.
My mom told me a version of that story when I was a kid
A woman was preparing a ham for the oven, so she cut off both ends and placed it in the roasting pan. when her daughter asked her why she would waste both ends of the roast like that, her mom said that it was in the recipe that way, and there was probably a good reason for it, but that she would ask her mother.
When she called her mom, and asked, why do you cut the ends off the ham? The grandmother replied, because it was written in the recipe, and that’s the way her mother always did it.
But, now curious, grandma visited her mother in the nursing home and asked “Mom, why does our family recipe say to cut off the ends of the ham?” And great grandma answered, “because it’s too long to fit in my pan.”
That's the version I've heard too
I watched this video coming down from a bad mushroom trip. You have no idea how much this helped.
Dude, I LOVE your channel! Thanks for all your contributions, comrade!
Is democracy under capitalism really democracy at all?
19:02 ((shakes head vigorously))
I think there’s something to be said for work quality over quantity. I started my own business and I’m much happier.
I’m also starting my own ethical business.
That's fucking capitalism. Thanks for the laugh, though.
Been looking for a channel like this for a while. Thank you, comrade. Subbed.
Used to work in a whey facility back when $12/hr. was a good wage. (min. wage was $5.35 then)
When I started, they had three shifts, morning, night, and graveyard (I worked nights), they were 8-hour shifts, and everyone had weekends off, but you could volunteer to come in on weekends and do deep-cleanings of the plant if you wanted extra money (which was over-time, which rocked), and during this time, maintenance would come in and do preventative maintenance, which meant less down-time over-all during the working week because things weren't getting broken. The work was hard and it was hot/humid as hell where I worked, but the wages were good, and I still had plenty of time to recuperate, and felt like I was being paid a decent amount.
Then the big guys in charge decided "Hey, we can be more productive if we switch to 24/7 operation!", so they did. Now there were two shifts: Morning and Night, with 12-hour shifts, and alternated days off. It was advertised as "3 on/4 off, 4 on/3 off", but my shift somehow got "3 on/4 off, 5 on/2 off" scheduling that by the time I left was never fixed. And because there was no scheduled down-time, preventative maintenance was non-existent. Machines broke down constantly, but we had quotas for how much product to process every night, which would often times be impossible because out of 20 machines, only 12 or even less would be operational. Further, because the bosses only worked 8-hour days five days a week, they never inspected the machine areas of the day shift, who were supposed to clean their areas before our shifts came in, and they didn't. Which then meant that night shift (my shift) had TWO shifts worth of crap to clean, otherwise we weren't allowed to leave, so you'd have to stay an extra 1-4 hours just cleaning up heavy, goopy/waxy material. 3 months of that was enough to force me to quit an otherwise good-paying job.
Now, I'm at a retirement facility, working the jobs of two people: driving the bus which shuttles the residents to/from their appointments, and maintenance. The place isn't making enough money to promote me to maintenance director, as was promised when I was hired on (the old maintenance director left for Florida, and the plan was for me to replace him), and as far as maintenance goes, I'm often too busy driving the bus around to get any maintenance work done. I do this for $10.25/hr. when min. wage is $7.50.
Before that, I was working in a call center doing tech support for McDonald's for $12/hr., and I was laid off after only 5 months. Not because of anything I did, but because "there was no work", despite me staying busy as the higher-paid workers kept going home early. Later I was informed by someone who still worked there in the higher ranks that the real reason was because the company "spent too much money", and now, more recently, I've learned they're shutting the place down altogether. Which makes sense, as when I was still working there, the rumor through the grapevine was that they were planning on out-sourcing to over-seas.
This is capitalism at work.
Your videos keep getting better and better
Breadtube on the come up
That's very kind of you to say :D
Loved the video and pressed the like button, but I feel compelled to point out a misleading statement:
18:07 The Happy Planet Index is *not* the World Happiness Index, and is not good evidence for the happiness of worker. The former is not a measure of personal happiness "but rather a measure of environmental efficiency of supporting well-being in a given country." A given uncontacted village in the Amazonas would score astronomically high on the HPI. This is because, even if the life expectancy were abysmal, you would divide it by a near-zero carbon footprint.
I love how you were filming outside here. Nice. I could take more of that.
just started watching this channel... great content! I love the editing in this video, makes the heavy material more 'fun' (you know what i mean lol)
The production values on this vid were GREAT! I just loved watching it. This was a very good script, too. I am...bothered by how hesitant I am to be cool with no government. But your vids will help get me there, Emerican!
Just want to say, I am coming back to some of your videos I found 2-3 years ago as centrist
I'm now a leftist (though I've done minimal praxis) and it's incredible how things have not only not changed at all but gotten worse :(
Welcome back, and glad you came to the left! I was a centrist for many years... it gives me hope how many of us are seeing things as they are!
I had a part time job as a lab assistant, no health benefits, no vacation time, no raises, but I was held to a high standard of performance (my boss was once critical of the way I walked at work, apparently I "Strolled", I was expected to walk in a more professional way). My boss had a saying "work hard, its more money in your pocket". The reality of that statement is, more money in your pocket = a dollar amount higher then zero.
This allegory is one of my favorites ever
Last time I heard such a comprehensive speech about anarcho-socialism, Richard Wolff spoke 4 times as long. Bravo! 👏👏👏
Great video! We need a revitalized labor party in the U.S. This animosity towards unions has to be reversed first and foremost. As individuals we have relatively little to no power, but as a collective our labor force could accomplish great things. We have to bridge a divide across all forms of labor and work together towards a better future for all. I will share this video with co-worker and friend alike. The more aware we all are the better.
These vids are really well done. Glad I stumbled on this channel.
Work as slow as humanly possible without losing your job and still maintaining personal dignity. That is the essence of Sabo.
yeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssss let the anti-authoritarian socialism flow
Dearest Pete, I love you, but my comrade and equal Korach is correct. Come to the black side, we have bread and anti-authoritarianism.
@@HWalla23 which won't work. Look at the past
"How many times do you have to be betrayed and murdered before you realize anarchism doesn't work!?"
we need a strong state. otherwise the capitalists will fight for their wealth.. look how Cuba and the DPRK have survived
U commie
Such an underated video.
When Gerald Durrell was a boy, he got a job at Whipsnade zoo. Every day, the keepers mixed warm water for the giraffe to drink. Young Durrell asked why. The older keeper just said that this was what he was told to do when the giraffe first arrived at the zoo. Durrell enquired further. It seems that when the giraffe first arrived he had a sore throat and the directors thought warm water would be more soothing so orders had been given but never rescinded and the keeper never questioned his boss's logic.
I'm going to watch this video every day before I go into my low wage, retail job as motivation.
Of course you uploaded this right after I worked an 11-hour shift at the tree service...
what r u gonna do about it?
I find it odd that everyone who comments they disagree never state why.
Damn, this is a great intro video for all the potential comrades!
Great video. Right On. Nice visuals like working hard on the exercise machine and hanging upside down.
you grew the beard back! Hell yeah dude
You’re an incredibly convincing speaker
That's very kind of you to say :) I get a few hundred abusive comments per day from people who would beg to differ with you but I'm going to go ahead and listen to you instead of them ;)
NonCompete
Maybe I’m just gullible 😂
The quality in these Vids, GEEZ so AMAZING!
This is in many ways your best video. The one that caught my attention in the first place.
Makes me physically sick people disliked this video. Who are they?
Bootlickers or petite-bourgeious I assume.
I just wasn't programmed with a work ethic. Life is hell. I'd genuinely rather die than work a full time job and I'm not sure what to do to avoid it.
Kill me please.
consider working for your self. this way , you say what's what . just a thought .
Do it
@@emperorhirohito3965 He kinda asked you to kill him.
downsizing will do wonders for you if youre willing to sacrifice materialism
This is great stuff as always Emerican.
Incredibly well made!
It should be noted about the assumption that "nobody under capitalism is forced to work and it's all voluntary: there are jobs out there that are complete and total bullshit, that are so unnecessary that even the person doing it cannot justify its existence, yet due the fact they need money to survive, they're stuck trying to pretend it isn't the case. David Graeber wrote an amazing book about it, and I guarantee if people didn't need money to survive, they absolutely won't take these bullshit jobs, thus proving the whole process isn't actually voluntary.
Capitalism isn't voluntary; if the only way you can force people to make completely unnecessary products is by implementing a system that requires them to get enough money to buy basic goods, then by default that's not voluntary.
@K lake literally anything that's planned obsolescence, for starters. Second, as I stated earlier, there are jobs out there, that are so completely unnecessary (elevator button pushers, for example) that even the person doing it can't justify its existence. Like it's not even meaninful work, yet the person doing it is required to go through the motions and pretend it counts for something.
Or literally any product that amounts to conspicuous consumerism
I believe that when automation advances, humans will not have that many jobs left, and mamy people will become poor. But that's how it would be in a capitalist society. In a socialist/communist society, automation is a great thing
No, more jobs will be produced over time,
Pieter Malan how do you figure?
@@Nerdcoresteve1 When harvesting vehicles became a thing, people moved to the city for jobs and farm labor became less intensive.
Pieter Malan all the jobs that will be lost don’t require any schooling, while the jobs that will be created will require advanced levels of knowledge of computers, etc. Not everyone will be able to afford go to school or let alone want to. Imagine losing your career in your 40s, 50s, etc. No matter how you frame it, there’s no way the rate of job creation will balance job destruction. We’re talking about a technological revolution that will kill jobs in every industry, some worse than others.
@@lksw42439 Umm, that's what everyone says when a new technology is here.
I really hope this channel becomes enormous.
What a very well articulated and refreshingly intellectual perspective ... Thank you vary much for sharing ! : )
I believe that for a society to function well it needs a healthy mixture of capitalist and socialist policies. Since the 70's the United States has become more and more aggressively capitalist until we get where we are now. Is it any wonder that politicians like Bernie Sanders have skyrocketing popularity? For my part, I gave him my $27.
There is no stable partially capitalist system. The "europe" of today with largely socalist healthcare and other social programs was the US of the 50s and early 60s to some extent(im being very liberal in this characterization but go with it), but as capitalism requires constant expansion, those services become privatized and move towards a more "pure" capitalism( its really corporatism but thats for another video). We see it today with a number of countries considering privatizing those social services to meet that demand for expansion.
How has it become more capitalist since the 70s?
@@darthutah6649 less regulation, cutting of social services and increased market access(i.e. privatization of previously public services) etc.
@@jordanjacobson6046 It's definitely not because of deregulation. There are more than twice as many regulations today as there was in the early 70s.
www.mercatus.org/publication/human-costs-us-regulatory-system-should-congress-pressure-agencies-make-rules-faster
Also, what services were privatized since 1970? The great society legislation began a few years earlier. The department of education began operation in 1980. So if anything, the US moved away from privatization. We can look at other countries like China and see that privatization led to strong economic growth.
Great video. Nice use of locations too. P.S. David Harvey rocks.
This a great video, well done :)
i've been needing a good chuckle
Man, Vietnam is pretty fucking beautiful...
@PolSmokesPot { ولد الوجيهي } love your username
I can't tell if some of these shots are ironic or not. What was the purpose of putting on shades and popping your leg up
EDIT: yeah they're definitely ironic
This was such a great video, NonCompete. Loved it.
One thing I think you should have put more emphasis on, though, is the history of how gradually but how quickly the labor movement improved things from unlimited hours to 8 per day -- it'd really drive home the point of how arbitrary this 8 stopping point is.
This was a really well-presented video
19:48 It's the People's Sidecar!
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Are we just going to act like the person on the public park elipictical at 2:49 Is not the most amazing thing in the world.
Insightful and thoughtful analysis. Thanks for uploading.
Hey, i just got this video suggested to me. Amazing channel. Let's kick some ass!