That's right "It's a big club and you're not in it"!

Ya know, there's a cartoon I used to watch all the time called Time Squad. About a small team of space time travelers ( who were essentially futuristic cops) who's job is to go back in time to certain historical moments in time to make sure the famous historical figures do their job and keep time on track. Well, one mission was to see what was going on with Betsy Ross and why she wasn't making the first American flag to inspired George Washington's army. Turns out she went flower child and was encouraging the army to not fight against the British or stop them from conquering America (which wasn't America yet) and turned them all into hippies. When one of the members, whose name was Otto, was trying to reason with her and brought up democracy, she says this: "Democracy?! Please! Yeah, sure it sounds great now! But in a couple hundred years, it'll just be another word for capitalism! Your democracy will be just a bunch of money-hungry corporations dictating everything from what you eat to the clothes on your back! Your "democracy" will be shown for what it really is! A farce!" Boy, she had no idea. 😔

My husband easily works 60+ hour weeks.i work as a part time vendor stocking retail stores. Often working 30-40 hours per week, but not considered full time no matter how much I work. My job offers no benefits, no vacation, no paid holidays. We are tired but we have to work our asses off. One of our 3 children has medical needs, there's no time for burnout...

I started laughing Kabir when you said that we Americans have the power to change things in Washington DC! Washington is what we call “The Good Ol Boys Club!” To put it in cruder terms “It’s not who you know but who you BL*W.” There hasn’t been an honest Official that’s been elected to look after the American People’s interests in years. I’m 66 years old and my Husband died in February of this year, I was on Disability for 15 years and made under $850.00/month, then my husband had to go on Disability because of Kidney Disease. He made around $3,000/month. When He died, between my retirement (I turned 66) and my Husband’s death benefits I get a little over $2,200/month. If I wasn’t in Senior Housing Apartment, I wouldn’t be able to afford to live on my own! I’m not complaining (well maybe a little) , but I Thank God for what I have because there are people who are living or not living on less than I do, and I don’t know how! The Government doesn’t care about the American Population they care that they get their raise every year and FREE Healthcare for themselves and their Families. This is just part of the American Dream. The Elderly suffer, but the Single Parents suffer more. They get paid just over Poverty Level and they have children to raise with almost zero amount of pay. Taxes go up,but wages stay the same.

Yeah when he said “can’t you change things by voting” is the moment I felt the need to comment. People who work low paying jobs are considered less than. It’s common for someone to say “well if they’d finished school or worked harder they wouldn’t be working there” it’s disgusting.

Brilliantly said It’s the toxic flipside of the “rugged individualism” ethos

Exactly this.

Bernie does but the problem is he's the only one so anytime he tries to pass progressive things for workers and families all the corrupt sellouts vote against it. Money corruption is a huge problem in DC.

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Seriously? Civil service jobs are some of the most cush gov't jobs that exist. Acting like you made some sacrifice to work for soft gov't job, please.

You do realize that law enforcement, fire, emergency services, game wardens and teachers are all civil service don't you? You're saying that we all hold cush jobs?

Forget the level of danger for a moment? According to the most recent pay surveys from the Labor Department, federal workers' base pay is 52 percent less than similar private sector workers. So if you hear about federal holidays, paid time off, and really nice health care packages, think of that as a small portion of the actual pay we get? We're still at least 30 percent lower than our public counterparts. On top of that, we get to worry every time Congress can't agree on the yearly budget and we face shutdowns. Every stinking year we worry about this. Those who are lucky to work remotely must have a dedicated office space with security measures and an environment that meets workplace standards for safety and ergonomics. Yet the government does not pay any part of my internet bill, cost for office equipment and supplies, or even allows me to write off part of my rent or mortgage as other home businesses are allowed. They provide you a laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and headset. But all of it is only for government work and you can lose your job if you use it for anything else. You have to pay for the best Internet access because you'll be connecting through a VPN and be channeled through serious firewalls... Speed and reliability are essential to access the workload on the servers. Then we can talk about the workload. Since I started 10 years ago, the workload has increased 400 percent, but our staffing has only increased close to 300 percent. More to do, but with fewer people to manage it. Stress and burnout are very real. Over the last 3 years, I've been having a hard time managing blood glucose levels because of the increased stress at work. But what about retirement? Yep, if I chose to set aside up to 10 percent of my salary, they will match, but only up to 5 percent. But you get raises every year? Not really. I'm at a point where I only get a merit raise every three years and that only adds about 2k to my salary. Would you be happy getting less than a dollar an hour raise once every three years? Now, if Congress approves it, we may get a COLA increase, but we went several years on a salary freeze and just had our largest raise at just over 3 percent. Inflation was over 8 percent, so we didn't even close that gap by half. So, why work there? Because I make a difference every minute of every day I'm at work. I collaborate with 300 very intelligent and dedicated staff that assist over 300,000 people each year. The position I hold requires a Master's degree and, once hired, requires specialized training that lasts for months. Where other jobs have a 90-day probationary period, ours lasts a full year because that's how long it takes to see if new people will be able to meet the demands of this agency. Still sound like a "cush" job?

@@JonS0107 Yup. You're nearly impossible to fire even with a poor job performance. You get raises whether they are deserved or not. Performance is essentially never scrutinized. Work doesn't get done? Oh well, we'll have to hire more people.......meanwhile.....take half the staff and have them do some useless task like count the number of whatchamacallits in the thingamajig.

Good on you for making the switch and making it for the reason you did!! Not everyone would do something as commendable as that!!

Also, who do they think works through the late night? McDonalds is 24/7. Teens in most states have curfews. In my state they can't drive between 12am and 6am. Our law states no minors under 18 can be out in public between those hours.

Those who didn't do good in school and as adults have to do menial jobs. That is who.

also a teenager in school shouldnt be payed less if they're doing the same work

McDonald's has to give you a raise every time your rent goes up? Every time gad prices go up? Cost of living inflation isn't McDonald's job and they can't chase inflation forever unless you'd like a $40 Happy Meal. Yall the same people who voted for Brandon and his inflation economy.

You are so misinformed. You also seem like a real jerk to be around. You aren’t happy so why should anyone else be???

Same I'm 53 and I have three part-time jobs, two of which thankfully are online from home but it's still exhausting, 7 days a week and I lose money the minute I walk away and turn down work so I try to stay on task about 60 hours a week minimum. I get no benefits. Not a one. I've been doing this for years and years and the pay hasn't changed.

I had 11 sick days on the books at a law firm I'd worked at for nearly two years. I learned I needed surgery and asked to use 5 of those days. Two days after my request, they fired me. First time in my life that I've ever been fired. They just don't care!

I used to work 3rd shift at a truck stop. So many of my co-workers hated working 3rd shift so much, that I rarely got to take all my vacation time all at once.

I was in the Gulf War, and this is not the America I fought for.

Depending on your ancestors, they fought for the right for only white, male, property owners to have any power. If they were confederates, they fought for the "right" to literally enslave other human beings. If they were puritans, they fought for the right to jail or exile anyone who wasn't a member of their religious faith. If they were in Jackson's army they fought to commit genocide against the native tribes. If they were Texians, they fought to steal Texas away from Mexico through illegal settlement much as Russia or Israel is doing today.

It is, though.

No one should be treated this way. Good luck to you!

Wages long ago quit keeping up with inflation.

I literally can't afford to go to family funerals. Even if I can afford the plane ticket, I can't afford the time off. Dystopian is the right word.

It just burns me up when my friend across the pond get so much more help with they have disabilities. My son is 18 and they just turned him down and of course we'll have to fight and fight. My son has severe mental health issues, plus he's autistic, plus he has an autoimmune disorder that keeps him stuck in bed a lot of the time but they don't think that's a disability. I'm sure he'll get it we just have to fight so hard and then I read from friends in the UK that they get housing and extra money and of course all their health care is covered. My son lost his state insurance the day he turned 18 and I have to work myself to death to pay for his medications. Many are on the Walmart discount list but my bill is still over 300 a month and now he won't even be able to see a doctor. My daughter is autistic and hearing impaired and she was turned down too. She got work through Walmart, like they're saving all these people with disabilities but the truth is they're treated like garbage for low pay.

You are not an American. You are a filthy communist.

If you can, id consider saving up to leave and move elsewhere.

I get up to six weeks time off..

You're lucky. The part-time jobs I had, no vacation time. The full-time jobs (32 hrs/wk) had a minimum 5 days off. If I sandwiched those days between my scheduled time off, I could get all of NINE days off. That was a rarity, tho.

@@vlb55 I've heard of a Pell grant, yes. What's that have to do with the average tuition cost?

@@vlb55 I think you're missing the point. Kabir was referencing numbers that are tied to private institutions (the Ivy League). I have 2 AASs and 2 BSs (from a CC and a state school), so I am quite familiar & I was letting him know the cost for a public/state college.

​@@vlb55Most community colleges don't offer a four year degree. The maximum Pell grant is $7,395. Can you do basic math? Do you understand that is just tuition, not fees, living expenses (my college required people to live in dorms the first year for example, and they charge for parking) or books... Did you know the Pell Grant once paid for full college tuition? But it doesn't anymore. Don't piss on me and tell me it's raining.

That's why I took early retirement at age 62.

I lost family in the pandemic which was sad but I was so happy that the business I worked at was shut down. I was able to actually spend time with my kid.

And who put that into law? The Democrats in the 1960s. They want Americans to feed the government more and more money, while Republicans want people to keep their hard-earned money.

As an American living abroad, that's untrue. A lot of countries tax from abroad and we only pay taxes under certain circumstances. I've never had to pay taxes from abroad.

@@controlZchannel also if go back to the states for more than 35 days you lose tax free status. If work for a foreign company you are full tax exempt until you pass the $122,000 and are taxed on everything over the $122,000 (which changes every year).

and being on the same short list as Eritrea and Myanmar is never good

@@Jliske2 The list is not the problem, it's the people who make the list. They are all commies who want to hurt the US and bring in the government to control everything.

We need to overturn Citizen's United.

It's hard to hang on to hope with open racists in control of government and governors like deSantis trying to whitewash even slavery, claiming slaves were benefited by learning trades. It's so gross and horrible now in this country, in 53 years I've never seen such a mess. Our only hope is the strong young people coming in to office, fighting hard to make a difference. I was just listening to Justin Pearson here in Tennessee saying he WILL break rules if he has to, because unjust rules need to be broken. People like him give me hope at least. I hope he survives and moves up in congress one day. I would vote for him for president right now honestly. He is such a good and honorable man.

I am so sorry for your loss. Take care of yourself.

Sorry to hear about your dad. I lost my mom in May of 2021. I was lucky, I ran my own side business so couod take as much time as needed. My sister on the other hand got fired because she missed like a week. It's a fucking joke the way they treat us. 3 days for losing a parent. Smh

What year are you talking about? Is Circuit City still around?

Yes, I often worked jobs that were part time benefits for full time hours.

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Thanks to the Republican rhetoric. They made their voters think socialism means dictatorship like Castro. Any democrat that was running they called a socialist. Bernie Sanders was the one candidate running trying to educate people on the socialism of Scandinavian countries like Denmark. People on the right didn't want to listen. They want to stay ignorant.

Apparently you don't think socialism is so great either or you would be living in one of those countries all I can say is goodbye we don't need you here we don't want you here

Oh I know what socialism is ..fortunately my education was pretty SJW and lies...even Bernie doesn't know true socialism 😂

Because they literally are socialist. It's not an employer's job to pay you to have babies.

Thank you for sharing your work experience headaches. So sorry. When I moved to Florida 21 years ago (I arrived with tons of work experience education and I was a former business owner) I was shocked at the offers to work for $7.25/ hr. I walked out on interviews regularly. The less they pay you, the more they work you. Some sick mentality here in Florida. Work ethic in our country is upside down. Ageism will hold you back too. They'd rather have a Generation Z kid who can barely put a sentence together...but will work for peanuts...than a highly qualified person like us. Hang in there. Know your worth and keep your expectations high. 😊

Which is why companies like Walmart show their employees anti-union videos.

@@brendag5263. How much more does a CEO today make versus an average employee? CEO pay continues to spike, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute. In 2021, the average CEO earned $27.8 million. Setting an all-time record, chief executives in the U.S. earned 399 times more than the typical worker in 2021. In the 1950s the ratio was 20 to 1.

@@zenpuppy6025 ... Right, that is why unions are important. There is nothing fair about a CEO making 400 times more than their employees.

Unions are anti-America communist filth.

​@brendag5263 but try convincing wide swathes of workers of that. Because.... 'Murica! 😢

You mean like public roads, schools, etc? Those don't help society? We're by far the most charitable nation in the world.

@@controlZchannel Yeah, we're the only country with schools and roads... WTF?

Seems to me that demanding that you get paid more than you earned is greedy and unfair.

You are not an American. You are a filthy communist.

There's a direct correlation between the product(s) you manufacture and the level of your pay. It's a free market system.

@@MichaelW969 Simply not true. Your level of pay is defined as "how much do you have to pay to get a qualified worker to do that job". If I advertise a job for $20/hour and no one applies, I'm not paying enough. But if 2,416 people apply, I'm paying more than the job is worth. *THAT* is the free market.

@@MichaelW969 "Free market" is backward.

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Something to add…many companies are also now making employees pay their own insurance premiums as well as any family. Our co-pays at time of service are also higher. Our prescription prices are off the charts. Many of our elderly go without basic necessities to afford their medications. Very sad and our system in the U.S. is in desperate need of change.

Actually the US is fairly comparable to a number of countries if not better. Not all states have state income taxes. Additionally any state or local level taxes does vary from state to state Federal income tax is progressive. It starts at 10% and progresses to 37%...which if you're in that 37% , you're making enough that you don't much care.

Yeah if you are making the money of course you won't care, but for anyone below middle class it still hurts a lot. Because people don't have money, the business will continue to collapse and at the same time the costs of everything else will go up and up . We have the highest property taxes out of all 50 states. They go by the size of the property, size of the house, and how much concrete you have, the more concrete on your property the higher the property taxes are. I have seen businesses come and go.

@@Bossman-jd3sv When did America get 52 states? Are you counting Iraq and Afghanistan?

nah, someone corrected me on that, i thought Virgin Island and PR. they are us territory but not US states. so school was wrong. 1985 in Virginia.

You are not an American. You are a filthy communist.

Fifty years ago minimum wage had more buying power. Fifty years ago workers had more bargaining power and the wealthy had higher taxes. You are lucky, I am jealous. I wish I could afford an actual house like my parents had when I was young.

At six weeks, mom is getting absolutely no sleep, if she had a C-section her body is still healing, if she pays for childcare, it probably makes her salary meaningless. Six weeks is a joke. If America was really "pro-life" newborn care would be a priority. Instead, all of the pressure to make sure this fragile bag of bones survives is on an exhausted, starving, hurting woman who is then expected to come to work forty hours a week and work like none of this is going on so she can "earn" a living.

You are not an American. You are a filthy communist.

"In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living." - FDR So we can agree you are incorrect when you assert that minimum wage was meant to be "supplemental" since the person who established it clearly disagrees with that. Also the variation in the price of a Big Mac is a paltry $1.40 and the highest cost is in Hawaii, which has more to do with the cost of shipping goods to a remote island than the minimum wage there. (Edit: when I say variation, I mean state by state. Minimum wage in Washington may be higher, but in other states where it is still $7.25/hr it costs at least $3.91 for the same burger, which is more than half an hour of labor for minimum wage employees in that state; so everyone is paying more, even where employees are not paid more, and McDonald's is making a huge profit). Walmart convinces you the only way for them to keep prices low is to pay workers starvation wages, but the people who own it are sitting on millions of dollars while your taxes "supplement" the low wages they pay via SNAP benefits. Wake up, it isn't the greed of the poor making things unaffordable for you, it's the greed of the wealthy.

@@rachelk4805 it took all of congress to create the minimum wage, so to assert that FDR, in his infinite wisdom, is the opinion of each and every lawmaker is flawed logic. I don't deny that these are evil corporations, who do not compansate their people fairly. What I am saying is that the same people who are demanding a higher wage, are the ones who will be the most impacted by its implementation. Why then should a worker reward a company with their labor...and if they are only qualified for minum wage work, then we have far bigger problems. As for the median cost of a big mac, it is currently $6.89 in my area, which far outstrips any index I've found. So don't believe everything you read about the state of the economy. It is far worse an the Pacific coast than the lawmakers would have you believe.

Other first world nations grew up and learned better than to think any country is "better" than another.

However, if you are $5 above that poverty level, tough luck. You are then called "Working Poor".

@@franj1414 The solution to that is don't make $5 above the limit. Take an extra day off work or work less hours. If your not going to make significantly over the limit to where it's worth it for you to buy a private insurance plan. If it's actually going to cost more in expenses then your getting paid over it limit don't do it.

I'm not burned out at all. My government job does not require me to work overtime at all. Even when I was with a private company before, I was not burned out. The constant threat of layoffs, on the other hand, was real.

The people I vote for do push for the people. Unfortunately, a lot of people vote for folks who don't.

Mc Donald's pays its managers ( leadership team) well. They make about 50k per year.

​@@lydiaedwards810050,000 a year is not paying them well, especially when you consider management positions are not hourly but salary. Working 60 hours a week for $50,000 is a joke.

McDonald’s in my neighborhood (in Kentucky) is paying $15.50 an hour to start and doesn’t have any takers.

Don’t believe everything you see on KZfaq. This video is full of half truths.

@@Hayseo It's just 9 here in TN, that's what my daughter made during her brief and horrible stent at McDs. It paid more than Little Caesars, which paid 8 year before last. She got a job at Walmart for 15 but thats for online pickup, which she was already experienced with. They didn't start everyone out at that wage and until last month cashiers made 14, now they're hiring at 15 but anyone already working there didn't get a pay bump, this was just to entice new workers. The truth is we often find jobs working from home or doing delivery work or crafts now so fast food work isn't nearly as in demand, especially when the workers are treated so poorly by companies and customers alike.

My brother's been a teacher in Memphis for 33 years. He has spent the entire summer cutting yards because he's not making enough to pay the jacked up taxes and homeowners' insurance he could afford 10 years ago on his salary alone. It's a crying shame that the most important people in our kids' lives besides family is treated so poorly.

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And, politicians will tell the people what they want to hear so that they get the votes, but once elected sing a different tune. That’s why we have a lot of the messes and corruption that we do.

You are not an American. You are a filthy communist.

@@jenjenjen2222 I agree! All politician's words should be taken with a grain of salt. They will promise impossible things to be elected. I'm a geezer of 75 years. It has never changed regardless of the party leading.

Most companies promise it, but in reality, set things up in such a way that their employees don't get to take advantage of any benefits. Even in your own comment, in the "best" job you had, you "earned" vacation time, when again, every other industrialized country requires companies to give you vacation time. It's like, if minimum wage kept up with capital gains it would be $23 right now. It isn't, so someone who has worked decades and has college debt considers their $20/hr to be good compensation. Things are so bad here people are grateful for scraps they are "given" from their employer.

It was sabotaged by the GOP.

ACA was a bail out the insurance co bill. It had nothing for patients in it.

I don't know where you are but they are getting more hours here. My daughter used to work at one here in TN last year and she would regularly get near 40 hours. they absolutely would not let you work 40 and if you worked 39 three weeks the fourth week you might get 14 hours for that week.

You don't get paid time and a half for anything over 40 hours? Everywhere I've ever worked done so, to the point I thought it was the law. Well, you did say you're on a salary, guess that's the difference.

@@johnwray393 yep- salary.. = no overtime..

That's why people say America is a plutocracy and not a real democracy. The founding fathers were so concerned with protecting property owners, in a time when people were literally property. Now slavery is illegal and those property owners are still buying politicians to ensure their profit is held in higher regard in the law than the lives of actual people.

I don’t like these kind of videos because they leave out so many things. These videos are made to fit an agenda not to really give accurate information. Of course McDonalds may pay 22 an hr in a country that probably doesn’t have damn near thousands of McDonald’s in every state. And no offense but Kabir many of you Europeans are given propaganda info about America. Many of you guys over there aren’t the most critic thinkers. These videos don’t give an honest picture of us.

@@Kim-427 All the video essentially did was compare laws between countries. That's it. That's the video in a nutshell. If you think the narrator is lying, instead of talking about lack of critical thinking and propaganda in Europe, wouldn't it be easier to just look up the laws and see if the narrator was lying or if it is actually true? For example you could look to see if there are federal laws mandating paid family leave across all of these countries or federal laws on how much vacation you have to be given, etc. In the U.S. all of those things would be contained in the United States Code which spells out federal law, so it is fairly easy to find that information.

Originally people aren't supposed to survive past 40. Women die in childbirth, men die in farming accidents ;-)

Americans MUST stop buying into the backward lie that "socialism is evil", especially as 99.9 percent of Americans don't have any idea about socialism that's correct having been brainwashed by the GOP for decades.

Everything he said was true. Facts matter....unless you don't like to hear them. Then I would suggest skipping these videos.

@bigbake132 I have never seen that channel but I was wondering where all the whining was coming from. I guess all these mostly nice houses that I pass in every city must be a facade. I just did a quick Google search and found the average American hourly income was a little over $28 an hour and the average United Kingdom hourly income was $16 an hour, in American currency. Add in the UK 20% VAT tax and the minimum 20% (if I read that correctly) income tax I am glad that I worked in the USA although I retired two years ago.

@@tvc1848 Yeah, so glad I'm in the USA as well.