I agree with this because I have ADD so working for a company where I have clear set expectations to meet helps me focus and feel productive and the thought of having to make every single decision without set expectations causes me to want to mentally spiral which would cause me to become indecisive and unproductive to the point that I don’t accomplish anything.

You're a very intelligent women with a lot of real world intelligence!

Agree. Not everyone has the mindset and mentality needed to own their own business as well

@@okalanibergschneider1201 Lol me tooooo! This is the most cathartic thing I've ever read lol. Congrats on making the job work for you!

True. I feel like we're being pressured to be entrepreneurs, as if that is the only measure for success. Some people are not cut out for that, and it's ok. Others could maybe make it, but are just not interested. I just want some money in for my needs, for some savings, and fun money. I don't need to be Miss Business Owner, too much work.

Investors should be cautious about their exposure and be wary of new buys, especially during inflation. Such high yields in this recession is only possible under the supervision of a professional or trusted advisor.

This is superb! Information, as a noob it gets quite difficult to handle all of this and staying informed is a major cause, how do you go about this are you a pro investor?

@parrish8386 Please pardon me, who guides you on the process of it all?

Decades of anti-union propaganda and anecdotal evidence proving the rightness of that propaganda

I used to just think people were dumb but then I learned that people are only as smart as the info you give them. We as a society have been groomed by our predators.

It's crazy... the general public (especially older generations) is so against them...

@@mitchh3092 I found it enlightening to realize that people aren't stupid, they're naive. Like, most people don't know much about any particular subject (myself included), and are overly trusting of things that people in their community seem to believe (again, myself included). Unfortunately, these things make people easy to manipulate under the right circumstances.

For the same reason they think communism is more deadly than a virus causing global pandemic

Ikr, cant even leave the state because I don't want to deal with snow, humidity and mosquitos lmfao.

Hate to break it to you but that’s not really the fault of capitalism, though you could blame indirectly, since the main cause is house owners wanting to see the value of their property go up, and so they prevent new builds, and have also capped taxes, so they don’t have to pay for their new wealth. Laizze-faire capitalism, or pure capitalism, wouldn’t allow for either of those

@@patrickmcclanahan2856 Yes but nobody below gen x has known anything other than this Laizze-Faire version right? It does frustrate me that people say "that's capitalism for ya" for policies that contribute more to cities etc. but that's why everyone is leaning further left who's young. We haven't benefited in many ways from the system other than technology becoming more affordable.

@@duncanbug I would disagree. Compared to my what was available to my parents in their mid-20s, the quality of my apartment is far better, the variety and quality of food that I can buy in the grocery store is orders of magnitude greater, my ability to go on vacation to Europe, Mexico, etc on cheap flights wasn’t even within reach of them, the quality of my 07 Civic relative to their early 80s car, my ability to easily invest in the market was something only the rich had access to back then, how easy it is for me to learn new information with the internet, have a relationship with my fiancée when she’s on the opposite side of the world…idk…we really really do have it so much better, even just in this one generation, let alone going back 2, 3, 10, or 50 generations

@@patrickmcclanahan2856 peak oil. Your argument is invalid. Seriously look at the Permian basin data. We’re facing an energy crisis.

Lul I'll plug Corporate Greed as being the reason and climate crisis being the catalyst for us seeing even more rapid, destructive, business out to turn a quick profit than anyone has in our lifetime before. Also wanna plug 'the Problem, w/ Jon Stewart' because it atleast calms me hearing people who don't have corporate bias/capitalistic economy indoctrination gather around and talk | kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ic2ag89evr2aeJc.html

Yep. I’ve read a lot about the typical sources blaming stimulus going to the poors and greedy workers wanting higher wages… yet corporate profit margins are growing and they’re bragging about it. Seems like they’re full of it and the true cause is a bit larger than Jerry down the street no longer accepting only $7/hr.

@@dmonee6196 Inflation and corporate profit are pretty much wholly unrelated. Inflation and deflation are a direct consequence of the money supply not matching the value of goods and services in the economy. Consider this admittedly dramatically simplified scenario: You and four friends decide to use shells to pay each other for favors to make sure that no one is getting more favors than they are giving. You help Friend 1 move and they give you 10 shells. Friend 2 helps you clean your house and you give them 5 shells. This is essentially the purpose of money: an abstract yet shared representation of value. You start off this scheme by all going to the beach and finding 100 identical shells, each person getting 20. This arrangement works for a while until one of your friends falls on hard times and spends all their shells on favors from the others. To get around their lack of shells, they go to the beach and find 100 more identical shells and start using those for favors to get through the rough patch. The total number and complexity of favors hasn't changed, though, because there are still five of you. You now have 200 shells (double) representing the same value of favors. What would happen to the shell cost of each service? It'd go up, no? That move now costs 20 shells. That cleaning costs 10 shells. This is the consequence of stimulus checks where the money comes off the printing press like what happened with the covid checks. There is more of the abstract unit injected into the economy, but it's representing the same or less actual value, so the purchasing power of each dollar goes down. This results in higher numbers at the gas station and grocery store. So, is it the fault of "the poors and greedy workers"? No. But it is a direct and predicted consequence of the massive stimulus checks that went out. The blame for this lies in the Fed and the federal government. The Fed has been keeping interest rates artificially low for years now to try to stimulate the economy in an effort to keep the line going up. They're trying desperately to avoid another major market correction, but are really just postponing the inevitable and making the problem worse. They could be removing this extra money from the economy to even out inflation by raising interest rates, as they are supposed to, but they are too cowardly to do it. To put that back into the shell analogy, it'd be like everyone deciding to destroy 10% of shells on every transaction until you're back down to 100.

@@mjs3188 I'd go so far as to say that you're half right. Tye current inflation definitely has to do with low interest rates but probably nothing to do with the stimulus checks. Those were simply not enough money per Capita to drive up the costs of goods and services. I would say that the most compelling reason for inflation is that the government has been propping up asset values through a number of monetary policies. This does nothing but increase the income inequality that's already becoming problematic. The point being that the people who have the money can afford to spend more of it and the people selling goods or services have to charge more to accommodate the shrinking pool of potential buyers.

They're increasing prices because they can, despite record profits. A journalist looked at transcripts of sales calls and they say openly that that's what they're doing.

Job hopping is bad anyway. The most successful people I know stayed with their company their entire careers and retired with pensions (as did I) and $30,000,000+ in company stock. None of the job hoppers I know are anywhere close to that. All I hear from them is complaints about how little money they make. And it makes sense. I would rather promote someone to an executive position if they’ve been with the company their entire career because they know the company better than outsiders and newcomers and I likely won’t have to worry about them leaving and having to replace them, which is very expensive. Conservative estimates say it can cost double the previous employee’s total compensation to replace them.

The entire notion of non-competes is so harmful that it’s unbelievable governments allow them. Never mind voluntary job hopping, but when they are enforced during layoffs it is doubly heartbreaking and inhumane.

@@johnmartin4641Your experience is incredibly outdated and non applicable here.

@@johnmartin4641 there arent company pensions any more...Today, job hopping is the only way to get a substantial raise. Youre operating off of old world data

Biden outlawed them

Thanks for saving me 18 minutes.

I am not lazy I have a disability

These are myths meant to maintain the status quo.

None of this has to do with the concept of capitalism. Good grief. Pathetic

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We have obamacare. That us universal healthcare.

@@phazon100 Yeah just no, No...

I think the 4 day work week trend is misleading, it should be called "condensed work week". It usually doesn't mean working 32 hours per week for the same salary, it means working 40 hours per week in 4 days = 10 hours per day. I don't see how that will be very helpful for our mental and physical health. Personally speaking, working every day from 9 am to 7 pm will kill me.

@@Tabbylover55 I’m talking about the 4 day work week, as she mentioned, 32 hrs a week, full time pay and benefits.

@@Tabbylover55 I work 40 hours in 4 days. It sucks, but for me personally I love having a perpetual 3 day weekend. However, I really hope someday it can just be a 32 hour work week as I'd have more energy after work to do anything besides sit.

I work 30 in 4 days and it has helped my mental health tremendously.

@@Lydia-hi6mx And what will you do with the rest of your time? Netflix...you are aware when people worked much less pre industrial revolution, they didn't have tv, electrric or even indoor plumbing...Those shorter work weeks were for extra time for household upkeep that you wouldn't even consider today......no really what will you do with that extra 8 hours? Will you contribute to society or will you melt your brain in front of the TV....because you deserve to sit around so much more than your fore fathers worked for...this is what's wrong with society....suddenly we wanna cash in.....we should be trying to innovate and improve societal relations etc....but damn Netflix is so worth an extra 8 hours off of work! But no one is lazy here......

My husband and I are in similar circumstances, we bought our house in large part due to the size of the yard for the price and the area. I like our home, but I would be more content in a smaller apartment. If it wasn't for my husband who likes large homes, and my dogs who need more outdoor space, I would happily downsize.

Same here, although our home is technically 3 bedroom, it's more like 2+ bonus. It's just under 1000 sq. feet, but on a third of an acre lot. We got it for the location, the back yard, and the fact that we don't ever plan on moving, so we wanted something that would be easy to manage when we're older. More space just means more to clean and maintain, higher utilities and the ability to just buy more stuff to fill it. We love our little crackerbox house. :)

I got a small 2 bedroom home for much the same reason - I want to grow my own food (cos the flavor is better plus I can grow things you can't get easily in stores), and its both too big and not enough in different ways. I'm turning the second bedroom into a cat foster room/hangout room/guest bedroom, so that's fine, but on the downside I have no good indoor space to start my seedlings so I'll eventually have to get some kind of outdoor greenhouse set up somewhere. But there are worse problems I could have (like in a bigger house there's more maintenance and higher utility bills - no thanks). When I was hunting, I actually had a hard time finding a house small enough because all the investors (both local and not) were cash buying all the houses under 1200 sq ft to turn them into rentals. I eventually got one that was further out, in a hilly area, and that has no access to public transportation. That was the only way I could get one that came close to meeting what I wanted without fighting with people who could just drop $100k cash with ease.

@@fourcatsandagarden We were super lucky we were able to get our house for the same reason - people were/are buying up the smaller houses and as soon as they sell, we see for rent signs on the lawn. There's a contractor down the street we had come over for suggestions on installing a dishwasher, and he commented that he almost bought our house. He owns a rental one street over, too. I think the fact that we wrote a letter to the seller telling them our intent to actually live in the house was why our offer was accepted.

@@bethd.6670 We have the same issue where we live. Sometimes houses are sold before they're even officially on the market. And it's not just smaller homes that are getting snapped up like that either. That's the unfortunately reality of living in a university town - there's no end to landlords. We live in an older neighborhood that was built about 100 years ago - about half of the houses in the neighborhood were converted into multiple units between the 50s and 80s (including our place - it was turned into a duplex in the 70s). I think a city ordinance was passed in the 90s preventing such conversions, which is why landlords don't seem to do it anymore.

Or how here in the USA how everyone has come to accept that in order to retire you have to have a good job all your life, stock options, 401ks, rental properties, and all kinds of investments. Being a hardworking individual is no longer enough because we have to boost the “investments” which are tied to CEO pay

Sounds like you're from the US?

Chelsea actually talks abt this topic a lot on the earlier tfd content. She apparently bombed her credit score on a hello iitty credit card in her young adult life.

Yep. Chelsea and I share an origin story. Same CapitolOne card at the tender age of 17, which I promptly maxed and then ignored for YEARS. Now I'm 32, almost 33 (Chelsea and I are the same age and likely tanked our credit at the same time, right around 2006/2007 before the recession) and I'm just now fixing the mistakes of my uneducated youth, and passing good habits that I was never taught on to my own young children.

Id love to see this too- i know this channel is mostly USA focused but id be interested in the way UK institutions (particarly department of work and pensions) have moved to offer loans than grants. Especially the DWP, who offer high interest loans to people who should be recieving benefits but arent (normally bc of dwp's own fuck ups). Me and my partner nearly fell for that in the past- my partner should have been recieving benefits from being in work previously, and looking for a job- but we were excluded bc my pay (too low to sustain us) came in a week earlier than expected. At this point we were worrying how we were going to pay for food and travel to interviews after bills- so the DWP offered us a high interest £1000 loan to 'tide us over'. Tbf the woman offering it to us looked visibly uncomfortable as she offered it, and reassured us that we'd made the right descision when we turned it down. But it chills me to the bone to think how many desperate and more vulnerable people than us might take that loan and wind up in debt forever.....

The problem is that often, people fail to grasp the concept of extrapolation. They just see a linear relationship between hours spent working and some metric of productivity such as number of products produced or sold and assume that it just climbs indefinitely so that if they just keep getting workers to work more hours, they will produce and/or sell more product. They fail to factor in things like workers are not robots or machines and that they have their own needs and need time for other things like rest, spending time with friends and family in social interactions, time to themselves for self-care, time spent exercising creativity with hobbies, recreation, or personal projects, etc.

@@johnwalker1058 I suppose when you're so far gone that the part of the curve the 40 hour work week is concerned with isn't visible at all, it looks like a linear relationship. That is, if the 40 hour mark is the edge of productivity gain on the first peak of the graph, by the time you're at 50 hours you've plummeted all the way back to zero and are slowly climbing back up on a very pathetically small upward trend. If your data points don't go lower than 50 hours, you won't even be able to see the drop. And this gets worse for tasks that require a measure of mental clarity and creativity, at which point you might have plummeted all the way back down to the baseline by 40 hours in the first place! In that case, when your data points are from 40 hours to 80 hours you're only seeing a pathetically small upwards trend, completely missing the incredible productivity boom you already missed by starting this far along the graph.

You touch the deep issue: Different jobs require different time schedules. Some jobs, perhaps, need 5 hours a week of an extremely focused person to find a great solution. But there is a lot of culture related to it. And also: would be fair to a worker see a partner work less than himself? Productivity, specially in services, is hard to measure while time, in the other hand, its stable clear and easy to measure. Usually countries with low amount of working hours per week are service-oriented and import labor intensive products without any guilt from those that work exhausting hours.

But frankly, I don’t really give a damn what kind of productivity any work schedule gets for employers. Working too much is poisonous to the soul. Reducing work hours is a matter of human happiness, which is an end in and of itself

Have you done any brainless factory work, do you have any idea what physical exhaustion, pain does to your mental state, you wouldn't last a month in such environment and just end up running back to where you came from.

Kudos to you and your boss. I feel like I work best the first 6 hours, the 8th hour I'm just not being as efficient.

The benefits of a "shorter work week" varies dramatically depending on industry. In some industries, time does not directly corollate with productivity. A video blogger might spend 30 minutes on their video or 4 hours. The 4 hour video is not inherently 8x better, nor does it have 8x the content. On the other hand a manufacturing job (of which many remain in the US) where a worker is running a piece of equipment, has a much closer connection between the hours worked and productivity. Cutting that position down to a 30 or 32 hour work week would have a major reduction in work completed.

Great! Do anyone knows Expert Mrs Helen Mrs Helen is legit and her method works like magic i keep on earning every single week with her new strategies

@@markvile8521 Yes I' m also a living testimony of expert Mrs Helen.

Mrs Helen has changed my financial status for the best.all thanks to my aunty who introduced her to me

I think I'm blessed because if not I wouldn't have met someone who is as spectacular as expert Mrs Helen

I think she's the best broker I've ever seen

I mostly agree with you here. Renting has a time and place for specific circumstances but if you are going to be living in your current area for any prolonged period of time, at least a couple years, it's in your best interest to buy a home. In my area, it's actually cheaper to buy a home and have a mortgage than it is for rent, and you'd be getting much more house/space. Granted, you have to factor in taxes, maintenance and interest. Real estate taxes in some areas of the country are insane and almost a mortgage itself. Also, a lot of people simply do not have the cash saved up to purchase a home, I remember seeing an article from a couple years ago saying that around a third of people didn't have enough in savings to buy new tires for their car. If you can afford the mortgage payment and it's around the same as rent in your area it's a no brainer. Not only are you building up equity but in the longer term it's also very likely to appreciate in value, whereas with renting this money is essentially gone.

The reason we bought is so our monthly payments don’t go up. We bought a decent home that kept our budget low. Sadly this isn’t possible for many people especially in the US were ok homes can be very very expensive.

Uh-oh…wth was ramsey babbling about?

Ramsey is not interested in you doing well. I’m glad you’re recovery.

I don’t agree with this. I think Ramsey offers much value but that you need to also balance it with the luck factor.

Ramsey is misguided about many things.

I stopped after the whole drama sparked with the "cult" accusations, guns, and vaccines came out. But I took his advice too literally and got in a bad place, basically.

I believe it. I am a nurse and at the end of 2020 we got an email from our CFO that we had to band together as a family to get through this pandemic. So there would be no raises or matching contributions to our 403B. All the staff breaking our backs working extra shifts, no PPE no raises or retirement for us. What I DIDN'T see in the email was how all administration was going to take a 20% pay cut to help the family. They sat up in their offices making $2.4M plus bonuses.

Also worker comp includes healthcare and most of those 18% went to cover rising healthcare cost, so workers didnt really benefit from that rise. In reality wages have stagnated and for a lot of jobs (low income) they have dropped.

CEos are paid with stocks so it's stock mayhem

CEOs are also compensated with stocks and that almost always means that they will always have income growth every year. It's also important to separate founding CEOs than hired in ones because founding CEOs deserve to reap the rewards of their risk and labor. Hired in CEOs not so much.

@@Sandy11142 you didn't get paid for the extra shifts??? That's grounds to sue!

big oof shoulda focused on minimizing hours instead of theoretical days heheh

Overvaluations and undervaluations. We've been speculated downstream into an undervalued region.

It's gonna depend a lot on the housing and renting market in your area. There's pros and cons to home ownership and pros and cons to renting. One of the biggest cons with owning a house is that you are responsible for all of the upkeep and repairs - and that gets expensive real fast. Another con is that you can't just pick up and move - you have to sell the house. Granted, that's not much of an issue right now as we're currently in the middle of yet another housing bubble, but eventually that bubble will burst and ppl will find themselves in situations where they might have bought their house for more than they can sell it - and depending on how much the difference is, they might owe more on their mortgage than they can sell the house for. That's a major problem inherent to the housing market in the US. In the part of the country I live in, rents are frequently higher than monthly mortgage payments. But after the lease is up, you're on a month by month basis so you can move out whenever you want or stay put. You also don't have to sign a new lease, although refusing to sign a new lease can be used as one of the reasons for eviction (under very specific circumstances and can't be the only reason either). My partner and I are disabled, so having a landlord that takes care of things like mowing the lawn and clearing the walks is so immensely helpful. And with the way that the US's medical insurance system works (even with Medicare Disability), we're constantly kept in debt - so owning assets would be just begging collectors to come take it from us. Plus, we live in a university town - whenever houses are put on the market, they're snapped up within a few days by landlords and usually have "for rent" signs put out within a month of sale. Anyone looking to buy a house to actually live in here have to contend with all the landlords bidding for the same house. I've seen plenty of houses that have had the "for sale" sign put up with it already marked "sold." It's pretty ridiculous. But one of the main benefits to the university town that most towns in our state just don't have? Good public transportation that's dirt cheap. The bus fare is $1 and you can get to most areas of town by bus, excepting newer residential areas ofc.

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Ursula K Le Guin is tight!

It was mentioned as cash assistance and that it doesn't affect worker productivity.

more like supply/demand someone has to do the jobs that suck like clean the sewers

@@seabreeze4559 and they will, if they are compensated.

Its a bandaid onto Capitalisms gigantic problems, it wont fix anything and it will just delay inevitable change

Honestly nobody really knows…only way to get good info is to test it on a somewhat large scale for a significant period of time, which hasn’t been done yet. And even how people in Florida vs ppl in Massachusetts react isn’t likely to be the same

yes but most move from the bottom 20% to bottom 30%. USA has the lowest percentage who people in the developed world 1) leave the bottom 20% and 2) make the top 20%.

@@stevenponte6655 we also have the wealthiest bottom 20%

Yeah those were better odds than what I initially assumed. And even slimmer chance to fall back into poverty. If there is a selfish argument to be made for government assistance is that it stimulates a stronger economy by helping people move out of poverty and people who move out of poverty earn more and therefore spend more. And once they're out they're unlikely to need those program anymore.

@@jdtreharne because of imperialism. It doesn't work without exploitation of third world labor.

@@sor3999 Welfare checks get spent, not saved. When they save enough, they no longer get the welfare checks. People don't understand that an economy needs money circulating like blood. And I'd bet you there's a good chance they'd spend that money on the same monopolies that were taxed for the welfare, coming full circle. This country has too much hatred and wealth hoarding mindset to be a functioning economy.

I love you for saying this because it’s so true. People who work in retail are stereotyped as uneducated and lazy. Businesses take advantage of it by making employees feel like they can be replaced easily and keep the compensation at minimum wage and no time off during holidays.

There's a reason so many former retail employees say they've "done their time" there when they finally get out. Sometimes, jail would have been the lesser punishment. At least you don't have to deal with Karens in jail.

The people that say the poor are lazy are the same people that tried to help you keep your office job. It was the people that claim to care about the poor that took your job away from you. Are all of the poor lazy? No. But a lot of them made bad career choices. I’ve preached for a long time to work is a recession resistant industry. Most recession resistant industries were considered essential businesses during the pandemic.

THIS! I'm currently a grad student and I won't be seeking a job in academia because there seems to be no work/life balance. I would love to see Chelsea interview some people with PhDs and talk about the toxic expectations of the work culture in academia and how to manage it.

Yeah… my partner is constantly stressed & exhausted with his career in academia. There are no work/life boundaries, everything has to be done “now”, everyone wants to know “what have you published lately? What’s your research now?” while he’s busy trying to actually be a good instructor & ends up hand-making most of his course materials. When my professors ask if I’m planning to get a PhD and go into research, I just laugh. I’m already familiar with academic hell, and that’s not even getting into grant writing aka begging for money.

I literally cannot imagine a world in which any prof works only 40 hours per week

This! 😄🙈 The US truly is the wealthiest "developing country" in the world

It’s a 3rd world country wearing a Gucci belt 😂

Very much so

Republicans( and a few democrats)won't allow it to be passed into law...and many voters vote against our interests. Positive vibes from New Hampshire, remember to be kind to each other and yourself during this pandemic and social crisis

Isn't it just during peak times? Once the work is done, there isn't much left to do agriculturally. Just got to let nature do its thing.

@@ironpalmmonk1199 In more modern times maybe. But irrigation, pest control, weed management, and other tasks typically added to work. And once you add animal husbandry in, 40 hours is a short week prior to industry making better tools.

@@historiansrevolt4333 all that work was done very festively and with mindfulness to joy in work. A lot of the time it was different than the tool of modern day farming and especially most modern jobs

Well in the winter they were mostly repairing things and feeding cattle, and that's it. In the summer they worked the whole day. So in those cases calculating averages across all year are meaningless

@@KateeAngel Yeah, this was my understanding and what I've read/heard in regards to work hours as well. OP stated he was an anthropologist so perhaps maybe he has more insight but I've definitely seen arguments stating low work hours pre-industrial times were low all around and not specifically tied to just hunter-gatherers. When work was needed, hours involved were naturally high. There was plenty of downtime involved i.e. a farmer was not always working.

this has less to do with capitalism and everything to do with consumerism and marketing.

The book “the millionaire next door” talks about that a lot

I keep telling people who listen to right wing FOX NEWS propaganda it's not about socialism, communism, capitalism or any other "ism." All that matters is if the system concentrates tons of wealth in few hands. Nothing ever good comes from that. And right now that's been happening on the grandest scale ever in the USA with all the tax cuts and low interest rate FED money. But good luck trying to convince these brainwashed people of anything other than "socialism is bad because that's what I heard from some guy on the radio."

@@lesliegahagan6091 these are extensions of capitalism, spawns

@@mx.chi2 agreed. They definitely feed on and rely on each other.

@elisabetta Dori I'm from the US, and I just visited Florence for the first time this past Christmas. It took my breath away! I walked around in awe while thinking to myself "this is not a movie set, this is a real place and these are real people". Incredible.

​@@sirgalahad1470 Unfortunately, I think part of the reason for this is that countries like the US have decided that they want homes on large land plots and a reliance on cars. Meaning horrible city centres full of highway sized roads and massive parking lots and boring suburbs not dense enough to create community and culture

@@sirgalahad1470 You lack Rome.

I was going to get allways comming home, i havent read leguin yet

There are two pretty successful people in my family, me and a cousin. He's got the big house, in-ground pool, multiple car thing going, while I live in a 4BR/1ba bungalow like I grew up in. I'm constantly asked why I'm not in some mini-castle.

Good for you...McMansions were the beginning of the end of society...too much space, don't hang out with your kids or your neighbors. Positive vibes from New Hampshire, remember to be kind to each other and yourself during this pandemic and social crisis

It's a super fine line to balance! Especially with more working from home, I can't tell some days if I work more or less than when I was in an office. But, I do feel like my work is more productive because I can take breaks & clear my mind with less worry that someone is expecting me to be at my desk.

How? How was it helpful?

Clogs? Or cogs? I guess either could work!

The system should be lifting us up?

Something about this comment almost sounds sarcastic, lol. I'm thinking I agree with your sentiment but it was just worded poorly 😉

@@3rdfitzgerald it shouldn't exist

The system is harsh and will be cause that's how society works. If everyone will be equal and paid equally then No one would have motivation to do something overkill cause you will get same salary even if you do that. There will be no motivation for any business cause everyone will be equal and there will be no innovations.

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Unions are trash...

I feel you. At my job, we just got off of a 4-month O/T period. I feel so physically and emotionally drained.

100%. I’ve been a software engineer my entire career and I’ve got a good 4 hours of valuable work in me a day, 6 on a really great day. After that, I start making simple mistakes that end up losing me more hours to fix than I gain by continuing to work.

@@sassyazz69 Much of what I did/do is crisis. The 18 hour sprint is doable, but not often. I've also seen people logging the O/T and actually doing nothing. There is also a frustration when the ovedrtime is the fault of someone who didn't listen to the functional reality. I'm not rich b/c I don't lie in design meeting nor in testing.

@@NS-cs3wp I can kick into maniac mode, but that needs a good reason and is only short term. When I'm inthe groove I can do a lot of work, but I put on headphones and have noting playing. I block out the universe. But not for days. Not for weeks. Not for the life of a badly designed and planned project. I have succeeded b/c I'm the guy who can deliver a crisis solution out of the blue. But I can't keep that level indefinately nor for idiot projects or someone else's incompetence.

where are you

Oooooohh - yes! I feel like your two styles of snark would be very compatible! (And I would *extra* love it if some anti-landlord rants could be thrown in - I was waiting for that to be included as a significant factor in why housing costs have been rising atrociously in areas outside of super-hot markets like SF and NYC. [If you're buying a rental property as an investment property, it's an *investment* - you can't expect rental income to cover all of your costs! If it did, you wouldn't be investing anything!])

As a third generation person from a full subsistance farming family... most of the projections about how single family farming work-life played out is a bit warped. They often include time spent on gathering eggs, preserving food and other such chores as part of the work-life and exclude the comparable time of shopping, driving and planning done in our modern lives. It makes the farm life seem like so much more work...it isn't. Also, we never got up at 3am for a harvest. What the heck...

She did say it was lower before the industrial revolution. Farms in the 1800s were industrializing and being pushed to higher productivity also.

@@mettamia2008 "preserving food" And it should. My grandmother spend days preserving food for winter and I can buy the same amount of preseves in few hours, but with money that I earn in my work. So her work hours should count like my work hours, not my housework hours.

Exactly. Advertising prescription drugs is pointless and IMMORAL.

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