Why Work Is Killing Us (and the Planet)

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Our Changing Climate

Our Changing Climate

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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at why work is killing us and the planet. Specifically, I unpack how wage work under capitalism is inherently a system of exploitation of people and planet. In order to truly forge a zero-carbon world, we must do away with wage work and transform our relationship with work. Culturally, economically, and politically we are forced to work the majority of our lives, often in meaningless positions or doing environmentally destructive tasks. The end of work might start with something like the four-day work week, but it must go farther into establishing a world wherein we don’t have to work to survive but instead work for pleasure.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:25 - What Does "Work" Mean?
3:26 - Work Defines Our Lives
7:25 - Meaningless Work
10:40 - What Happens When We Don't Work?
13:11 - Abolishing Work
16:27 - CuriosityStream and Nebula Sponsorship
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@OurChangingClimate
@OurChangingClimate 2 жыл бұрын
What is your relationship with work? Note: I misattributed the quote at 9:49 to Kathi Weeks. This quote is actually from Rogé Karma on the Ezra Klein podcast describing a concept from Eyal Press' book "Dirty Work."
@pewpewentertainment6858
@pewpewentertainment6858 2 жыл бұрын
I'm always alienated from my fellow coworkers, Its extremely easy to get burnt out and depressed
@Falcodrin
@Falcodrin 2 жыл бұрын
Work a year then get really really burnt out and find a new job
@BobbiPhantom
@BobbiPhantom 2 жыл бұрын
I went back to study for a better paid job. Want to buy a house someday.
@OurChangingClimate
@OurChangingClimate 2 жыл бұрын
@@pewpewentertainment6858 dang that's sounds super stressful and tiring, I'm sorry :(. If you could change your working situation, what would you change?
@chrisneira4306
@chrisneira4306 2 жыл бұрын
I have to study, work, volunteer to try get I to a competitive professional school to study again and then finally work. it is all exhausting and daunting. I feel like I am working so hard, but I have no saving and I am working towards more studying and work
@mattwong5403
@mattwong5403 2 жыл бұрын
When we talk about giving poor people universal basic income, I keep hearing that they will just be lazy and waste it on Starbucks and iPhones. But when CEOs fire 1,000 employees and give themselves a $200 million bonus, I never hear anyone say "they don't need $200M because they'll waste it on a third yacht."
@Whazzar
@Whazzar 2 жыл бұрын
We don't hear that because the believe that those CEO's "worked to hard for that" is deeply ingrained in people their minds. And if people do care, it's for a split second and then they're thinking about if they're going to make rent this month. And that a UBI would make people lazy is also a lie that has been debunked in numerous studies.
@7of9123
@7of9123 2 жыл бұрын
I agree!! The UBI is one of the best way to start decupling survival from work and to give people the air to breathe and time to think. I think it would be absolutely the beginning of exactly the revolution we need.
@vaiyaktikasolarbeam1906
@vaiyaktikasolarbeam1906 2 жыл бұрын
this comment please pin it
@philipp3001
@philipp3001 2 жыл бұрын
No CEO should be making that amount of money. They always get bonus by cutting down cost and salaries from people that are already struggling to survive and working their life away.
@HiddenAgendas777
@HiddenAgendas777 2 жыл бұрын
@@Whazzar you may find my environmental call for a UBI helpful kzfaq.info/get/bejne/htt4i66gktXdd3U.html
@SaveMoneySavethePlanet
@SaveMoneySavethePlanet 2 жыл бұрын
What kills me about wage work is how darn USELESS so much of it is! At my job, we got scolded one time by management because we designed a part TOO well! This meant that less parts were breaking in the field and our long term sales were dropping because customers weren’t purchasing replacement products. So capitalism was pushing us to design parts with worse carbon footprints just so the company could keep making money!
@OurChangingClimate
@OurChangingClimate 2 жыл бұрын
Oh man, that is infuriating!! That's the epitome of planned obsolescence right there.
@xQuandaleDinglex
@xQuandaleDinglex 2 жыл бұрын
That's terrible. May I ask what you were manufacturing?
@SaveMoneySavethePlanet
@SaveMoneySavethePlanet 2 жыл бұрын
@@xQuandaleDinglex windows for airplanes. So I already have issues with what I do (actually actively looking for a job in another industry right now). But my issue is exactly what he describes in the video. I need that other job to provide a certain level of wage, 401k, health insurance, etc. so at times I often feel trapped by my job and forced to help poison the planet just so I can continue to survive. It sucks. A lot of those feelings bled into the video that I ended up making about UBI and why I believe that we need it in order to make more progress on fighting climate change.
@Sam-iu8nb
@Sam-iu8nb 2 жыл бұрын
@@SaveMoneySavethePlanet Your first comment was horrifying enough. The fact you work in aviation and were basically told your designs are too safe, that just broke something in me.
@SaveMoneySavethePlanet
@SaveMoneySavethePlanet 2 жыл бұрын
@@Sam-iu8nb right?!? And people wonder why those of us that care about the environment are basically permanently depressed…
@BirgitProfessional
@BirgitProfessional 2 жыл бұрын
That whole "you have to love your job" mentality is something I've come across recently. In my current position, I'm involved in evaluations of my collegues' performance. When we were discussing the ratings we gave, some words I kept hearing from management were "He/she does his/her job, but that's it" and "they're not showing a lot of passion". They said it with that tone of disapproval, almost like the very thought is offensive. All I could think was "and that's a bad thing because?" Like, why do we have to treat our jobs like they're the be-all-end-all of our existence. When has "do your job and go home at the end of the day" become a bad thing?
@planefan082
@planefan082 2 жыл бұрын
I mean, you SHOULD love your job! Because if you don't, you shouldn't need to do it
@seitanbeatsyourmeat666
@seitanbeatsyourmeat666 2 жыл бұрын
Right? Just doing a job and then leaving and not thinking about it again until the next time it’s time to work. Nothing wrong with that
@sarahrosen4985
@sarahrosen4985 2 жыл бұрын
@@planefan082 so, who are the people who love cleaning toilets at the hospital, restaurant, gym and service station. If no one loves doing it, then no one has to, you say.
@planefan082
@planefan082 2 жыл бұрын
@@sarahrosen4985 Automatic-cleaning toilets have existed since at least the 2000s. Regardless, there are actually people out there that are super passionate about janitorial work. Pay them a good wage, pay for less toxic chemicals and some actually wouldn't mind making it a career.
@Gameboob
@Gameboob 2 жыл бұрын
This is a good point. From an human perspective, I think it would be much better that they enjoy their job. But for their happiness only. When a boss starts to punish you for lack of passion I think they're overstepping.
@desu38
@desu38 2 жыл бұрын
This would also destigmatize _a lot_ of jobs. Currently a job like sewage work is looked down on, but that's only because it's usually a job you're forced to do out of desperation. You're seen a loser for not being good enough to avoid it. But in a world where you technically don't have to have any kind of job, in which "classes" don't exist, somebody who volunteers to do such a thing would rightfully be seen as a hero.
@hfdcjiirjmcfi
@hfdcjiirjmcfi 2 жыл бұрын
How are you going to get people to do it
@seanhubbard6033
@seanhubbard6033 2 жыл бұрын
@@hfdcjiirjmcfi When people have their personal needs met, and the conditions of work are improved, perhaps there will be some people who simply don't mind doing it. Other than that, I'm sure we could find another solution. Maybe some mind of lottery system, or like jury duty, where you have to do that sort of work for some time then you're done.
@justaguy328
@justaguy328 2 жыл бұрын
@@seanhubbard6033 So your solution is slavery? What a beautiful world you're creating. So much better than what we have now.
@desu38
@desu38 2 жыл бұрын
@@justaguy328 Slaves are known for having their personal needs met.
@valkyriefrost5301
@valkyriefrost5301 2 жыл бұрын
@@justaguy328 - Today we have wage slavery, so it's not really that different. The issue is cultural in that some people feel they are "better" than others because they don't work as a plumber or as a carpenter. Fact is, our society has always used "job" as both a status symbol and a means of determining pay/value.
@GEMINDIGO
@GEMINDIGO 2 жыл бұрын
My intuition tells me that if nobody had to work,more real work would get done.
@moonlight_cat_27
@moonlight_cat_27 2 жыл бұрын
Yes! I agree.
@user-gu9yq5sj7c
@user-gu9yq5sj7c Жыл бұрын
Get people to take a poll on what they would do without having to work.
@Dystopix
@Dystopix 2 жыл бұрын
I have not had a job in 27 years. last week I baked pizza for family and acquaintances, I baked lots of bread, built a playhouse for a child, arranged a gourmet dinner on mostly wild plants I picked, installed doors in my sister's house, Pickling lots of vegetables, was a dog sitter and babysitter, dug a community garden with rhubarb for everyone to take off and built a paving stone around it. so even if I do not have a job, I'm not lazy. I just do not get paid for what I do. I live small, have no car and have never bought anything on the internet. prefers to shop second hand and is a vegetarian. so my footprint is pretty low. and I own my time!
@jack27nikk38
@jack27nikk38 Жыл бұрын
That's so nice 🙃
@Sobermama927
@Sobermama927 Жыл бұрын
Your life sounds absolutely beautiful ❤
@user-sf9gs2pg1b
@user-sf9gs2pg1b Жыл бұрын
That sounds so amazing! Like a dream way to live for many. People like you also really help out the community. I remember hearing about how stay at home mothers, for instance, used to put in so much work for their communities and had invisible work hours in addition to the unpaid labor of caring for a child. Also that gourmet dinner of wild plants sounds amazing! One KZfaqr I watch sometimes, she lets her garden sort of “decide” what she eats, and she has such cool videos. She’s an Asian woman, will look for her name. TheCottageFairy is also a similar channel to that one. Edit: her channel name is “Her86m2”
@xingyuyaomt-bc6592
@xingyuyaomt-bc6592 24 күн бұрын
@@user-sf9gs2pg1b WoW! I just checked out her youtube channel. SSOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!
@xQuandaleDinglex
@xQuandaleDinglex 2 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad people like you exist. Gives me hope that we can stop the madness that we've wrecked upon ourselves and the planet.
@OurChangingClimate
@OurChangingClimate 2 жыл бұрын
preciate it! thanks for watching!
@eatsleepheal4420
@eatsleepheal4420 2 жыл бұрын
No pay equals hunger sure we can hunt but hunt what soon we will empty the sea and land animals have little to none habitat left .if we all went hunting they'd go extinct faster even seems no escape on this one just hang in there chop of a limb if it helps I don't know we or doomed I tell you doomed we or fast forward buttons pushed repeatedly faster faster faster pay up insurance car tax electric gas it's all gone sky high slap me please some one perhaps it's just a bad dream
@AudioPervert1
@AudioPervert1 2 жыл бұрын
What you say is very interesting (not the hope part). However we must remember that a vast majority of human beings, regardless of what class, language, region etc - Want growth, want to have a lifestyle and love consumption. Given that fact in place, the predicament should be clear. Work or no work, how do 8billion people survive? On hope... Naaah! never
@MagicToadSlime
@MagicToadSlime 2 жыл бұрын
@@AudioPervert1 People will always work, it's ingrained into our lifestyle for 80% of us. Given that fact, should we not fight for the best possible labor laws and worker rights? Should we all succumb to a work ethic/ culture that destroys people physically and mentally in many cases? It's not that we don't want to, or won't, work, it's that we want our work to be better for us.
@MagicToadSlime
@MagicToadSlime 2 жыл бұрын
@@AudioPervert1 also, 8b people are already "surviving" for the most part, but they could be thriving if we actually cared about each other. For example, something like half of all food in the U.S. is thrown away before consumption while there are malnourished children throughout the country. Something's not right with it all
@sarahsagar2129
@sarahsagar2129 2 жыл бұрын
I really thought the pandemic would allow people to maintain a better work-life balance, with the flexibility to divide working between home & an office base. Reducing commuting journeys reduces air pollution. Flexible working hours can fit around your childcare needs. Working a 4 day week has be proved to more productive than working 5 days. But governments don't care about mental health, physical wellbeing or happy workers. The system is broken.
@dave_riots
@dave_riots 2 жыл бұрын
The system isn't broken, that's how it's designed to work.
@TheFxEditor
@TheFxEditor 2 жыл бұрын
@@dave_riots yes the actual system is broken, in a way that the system favors for those with power and money while everyone else, the 99%, suffer.
@kurtmill9080
@kurtmill9080 2 жыл бұрын
My thoughts: The Pandemic doesn't and won't teach us anything. We choose what to learn from it. This goes with all events in life. What many learned from it is that they are tired and exhausted, and just want it to end. This comes from our society's addiction to short term stimulation and need for quick payoffs to live. The Pandemic has become a long term thing to manage, which our systems have not been designed for. We've designed systems that cater to short term benefit at long term expenses. If we want to change the system, I dont think we can just expect an event to come and wake people up. We have to CHOOSE to wake up, show people other paths, educate, inform, live by example, and coordinate in grassroots organizations to deconstruct these outdated and ineffective systems we have, while building new ones based on new values that incorporate community, consensus, art, science, play and building meaning together.
@HiddenAgendas777
@HiddenAgendas777 2 жыл бұрын
I too was hoping people would wake up, when they saw cleaner air when economic activities were limited to necessary activity, i tried kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZqBoZB8yquld4E.html and still am trying
@kiwi8476
@kiwi8476 2 жыл бұрын
It’s all about money and power.
@alexyandfriends
@alexyandfriends 2 жыл бұрын
As someone who hates to work I endorse this message
@7of9123
@7of9123 2 жыл бұрын
As someone who loves to work I also endorse this message wholeheartedly!!
@nicolatesla5786
@nicolatesla5786 2 жыл бұрын
work can be interesting and fun. 30 years ago I made the bad decision to leave the Airforce. We did not work that hard and my dorm was a 15 min walk.
@stokepusher5481
@stokepusher5481 2 жыл бұрын
Amen (uttered at the end of a prayer, meaning, 'so be it') .....I mean, amend, Amend!! Amen to that.
@davidlloyd-jones8519
@davidlloyd-jones8519 Жыл бұрын
Yes.. the video is aimed at people who don't like work
@m998hmmwv7
@m998hmmwv7 Жыл бұрын
Lazy losers of the world unite. Let other people work while I sit home and collect a government check.
@heronimousbrapson863
@heronimousbrapson863 2 жыл бұрын
Back in the '60's many believed that we'd be working only a few hours a week due to the upcoming technical revolution, and that we'd have a great deal of leisure time to spend as we saw fit. Now, many of us are working much harder than was the case then. Exactly the opposite of what was anticipated.
@HiddenExp
@HiddenExp 2 жыл бұрын
We are producing more in less time, and still working the same amount, only making the "owners" of our production richest
@animal79thecat
@animal79thecat 2 жыл бұрын
Its certainly phucked up
@chihirostargazer6573
@chihirostargazer6573 Жыл бұрын
It's the same lie we keep telling ourselves...to make this all make sense. They don't want people to work less, they want to punish you for existing. They want to squeeze every cent they can't get out of you. They don't want you to have time to think, because then you might start realising what a total sham and scam the whole system is.
@LK-pc4sq
@LK-pc4sq Жыл бұрын
exactly and in 1969 was the time where leisure time was the greatest!
@0xsergy
@0xsergy Жыл бұрын
you feeling that trickle down yet?
@ry.hoshiko5482
@ry.hoshiko5482 2 жыл бұрын
A new foreign Chinese company opened in my area around 2 years ago. My friend got a job there and I was thinking of getting a job there too. My friend worked there for 6 months and wanted to quit. She said that no human would work there and those who did aren't humans already. I heard about many bad working experience from other friends but I thought let me just give it a try. My friend was stopping me and advised me to stop trying to apply there. I didn't listen until she was force to work overtime until 4am a day before our planned vacation and she got no sleep at all. She came straight to my house at 5.30am and slept all they way there. It was supposed to be a vacation but she could barely functioned and sometimes had to work on her ipad while on vacation. When we got back she told me she would quit and she did. Her stories really shocked me and really made me question the whole existence of work. Another friend was duped into signing a bond to make new employees unable to leave their job for 2 whole years. We are fresh graduates and inexperience so she didn't really know what she was signing too. But thankfully she got a lawyer and quit bcs working environment was unbearable too. Hearing these stories and some other minor ones really set me back from finding a job. I know I would have to work eventually but I really wish work itself would be more humane.
@meepy546
@meepy546 Жыл бұрын
-1000000 social credit
@catone_atelier
@catone_atelier 2 жыл бұрын
I hate it when someone asks that question "what do you do for a living?" when they first meet you. It's as if work defines who I am and that's it. I'm not defined by my work. I am not my work. Are they more interested in me or my work? Most people don't realise they ask this the first time they meet someone.
@kloggmonkey
@kloggmonkey Жыл бұрын
whereas "what do you do/like to do besides work" is a great conversation starter
@ITBEurgava
@ITBEurgava Жыл бұрын
@@kloggmonkey I think you just won the internet with this.
@tvgr8218
@tvgr8218 Жыл бұрын
it's kind of like asking how much money you make as the first thing to someone.
@LK-pc4sq
@LK-pc4sq Жыл бұрын
In some countries like new zeland people never ask this and they dont care!
@inyeekaribi4913
@inyeekaribi4913 Жыл бұрын
Good point but it’s also part of a larger problem imo
@bigballz4u
@bigballz4u 2 жыл бұрын
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. -Ellen Goodman
@lets_see_777
@lets_see_777 2 жыл бұрын
hoping that some day by old age you may actually have enough wealth to not struggle horribly. truly fcked up.
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@richiegiggs Жыл бұрын
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@dannyscott1276
@dannyscott1276 Жыл бұрын
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@jackbills
@jackbills Жыл бұрын
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@tblazegutt
@tblazegutt Жыл бұрын
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@palmersolga
@palmersolga Жыл бұрын
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@KnightFlesh
@KnightFlesh 2 жыл бұрын
My wife and I had a conversation just a few days ago, that it is insane how our local butcher cannot get people to come work for him. He says they think the work is too hard and he cannot pay very well. So instead they would rather become a glorified copy and paste machine. When in reality, the people supplying food to the masses, should be the ones we value the most. I like that you point that out that teachers, farm hands and caregivers are some of the most underpaid and under appreciated jobs. I hope a true shift is coming soon as more and more people wake up to these facts, and channels like yours are helping pave the way to more and more waking up to it.
@jessegee179
@jessegee179 2 жыл бұрын
We have trouble finding part time work with enough breaks. I was keen to work at a food processing plant near me, but 9 HR shifts on my feet, in a chilled environment, only one short break 🥶 They won't offer job share or part time, then complain they can't get staff
@ilonaupite609
@ilonaupite609 2 жыл бұрын
Butcher is a horrible and compeletely unnecesary profesionālā, humans are primates we are all born vegan. Go vegan now save the planet in the process. Animal agriculture is one of the Main causes of climate change and deforestation and ocean dead zones and pollution and is cruel to animals and is compeletely unnecesary.
@KnightFlesh
@KnightFlesh 2 жыл бұрын
@@ilonaupite609 I completely disagree with you. But that is your opinion and you are welcome to it
@ernststravoblofeld
@ernststravoblofeld 2 жыл бұрын
Can't pay enough, or won't? I hear lots of people complain about how nobody wants to work cheap or free. I lack sympathy.
@KnightFlesh
@KnightFlesh 2 жыл бұрын
@@ernststravoblofeld I feel like "won't" pay enough is an issue across the board. The ratio of CEO income to employee income has just gotten to an exponentially ridiculous point. I think the owner and CEO of companies should make great money. But do they really need to make millions a year while some of their employees cannot afford basic human needs?
@fredyleonardocarrenohernan6864
@fredyleonardocarrenohernan6864 2 жыл бұрын
People are an end in themselves. The merit of a human being cannot and should never be judged by the merit of his productive capacities. That is reducing human life to mere machines and we are not machines, we are not objects of production, we are subjects of life.
@OurChangingClimate
@OurChangingClimate 2 жыл бұрын
Yes!!!
@nicolatesla5786
@nicolatesla5786 2 жыл бұрын
Sad thing is robots with Ai is replacing humans at break neck speed. I study computer Vision Ai Code and its NOT that hard to make code to do things that would be impossible for a human to do.
@holleey
@holleey 2 жыл бұрын
@@nicolatesla5786 why sad thing? the faster this progresses, the sooner our current system collapses as it becomes apparent that to attempt for everybody to make a living via employment is futile
@krunkle5136
@krunkle5136 2 жыл бұрын
But life is production.
@coolioso808
@coolioso808 2 жыл бұрын
@@holleey Exactly! We don't have a sensible economy when robots taking jobs that we didn't want to do anyway is seen as a 'bad thing' only because our economy is so backwards that we've tied labor-to-income and thus livelihood. That's a problem. We need a re-orientation of our socio-economic system so that we encourage and relish automation doing the essential work we don't want to do and that automation can do more efficiently. We should be automating essential good production (as well as localizing it) as much as possible. But we need an economic structure that encourages technical efficiency. We need to be working less, anyway. At least at most jobs that are killing the planet and our society. We need more time to do things we enjoy doing anyway that can be creative, exploratory, helpful and even recreational. We need a healthy balance of all.
@greenleafyman1028
@greenleafyman1028 2 жыл бұрын
By doing minimalist and anti-consumerist lifestyle, I realized that I don't need the extra hours of my work to live. One of the reasons that promotes long hour work is our over-consumerist society.
@l.zeitgeist3584
@l.zeitgeist3584 2 жыл бұрын
‘Restoring land without restoring relationship is an empty exercise. It is relationship that will endure and relationship that will sustain the restored land’ - Seems like it is time to restore our relationship with the work we do as well.
@guillermo.mserrano
@guillermo.mserrano 2 жыл бұрын
I know, this current world is so wrong. Just ensuring everyone gets their necessities covered without exploiting is what we need, not this self-destructive frenzy. Past the point of having everybody have enough, there is plenty of time for leisure and connection with others, yourself and nature, apart from the fact that this radically different version of work would also allow for this necessary good feeling at work.
@coolioso808
@coolioso808 2 жыл бұрын
We do need to re-think our relationship with work and our environment. We've lost sight of that, many of us, because the constant pressure in this crazy market capitalist-driven world to keep trying to maximize profit to improve our living conditions when we already can have all that WITHOUT the pressure of labor-for-income, if we are willing to stand up for ourselves and change the system that causes so much harm. Work should be something we all are motivated to do for reasons other than money. We already know we are motivated to do things for other reasons: exploration, creativity, socialization and social support. Most meaningful jobs people would 'do for free' if they didn't have to work unhealthy amount of hours and they knew they had a nice home, good food and functional clothing to access without specific labor roles or hours. What I'm saying is, we should be open to re-inventing our economy to end the oppression. By doing so, we'd also end the massive waste and pollution we are producing from meaningless tasks and jobs. A transition towards a Natural Law Resource Based Economy, for example, where we establish local production and distribution, embracing automation because it is often safer and more efficient, freeing up people to share the workload and have, in turn, more recreational and leisure time, which is better for our mental and physical health.
@Glooomyy
@Glooomyy 2 жыл бұрын
Man, this kind of stuff makes me feel less alone in the world. Just the other day, I was talking with someone about how capitalism is ruining our world, enviroment and taking advantage of far too many people; and how I wish we could break away from this oppressive system and have something where we work towards a better future. And of course, I could see him getting annoyed, as he went on to say that there's no way and that we're all going to die from some big world war. At that point, I just didn't bother and let the conversation drop. But unfortunately, this is how conversations with this kind of topic *always* turns up, regardless of who. And, well, I do understand that fear and hopelessness. I feel it too. But I'm also tired self projecting my hurt and trauma's unto my view of the world, because there are so many wonderful people out there. I feel that, growing up and into adulthood, my wishes for the world were constantly beaten out of me, as I was told my ideas were foolish and childish, and was forced to become an 'adult'. And 'adult' who was jaded, tired and thought that we're all doomed from the start. And I want to reconnect with that little kid I used to be, who honestly felt in their heart that there was hope in the world. And I wonder, how many people out there had that little kid beaten out of them as well? I think it IS possible to work towards a better future; I can't help but feel all of our ancestors had suffered so much, and we have access to so many wonderful tools where we can do so much better; but we're just stuck in this oppressive, cult-like system and it needs to end. Anyways, it makes me happy seeing stuff like this pop up on my feed, as I feel that maybe one day we'll see a better future. Maybe not in my lifetime, but I feel that even if I don't get to see it, I'd like future generations to enjoy a better life, rather than have to pick up the scraps of our negligence. Sorry, I'd like to say more, but my eyes are fried right now as it's 6am and I am TIRED lol (also, sorry for any spelling errors) Great video, keep up the great work!
@YONI_2
@YONI_2 Жыл бұрын
This will never happen.. We are too divided for this
@sneaky_krait7271
@sneaky_krait7271 2 жыл бұрын
I've been having these exact thoughts for like a month now, what makes me and all people on this world wake up and work. It's money and survival, rather than joy
@sneaky_krait7271
@sneaky_krait7271 Жыл бұрын
@@peaceoutrawkon While it also saddens me, I really enjoy finding ways to break out of it. I feel like others just don’t realise it somehow, so stuck that they never think outside of the box.
@mattwong5403
@mattwong5403 2 жыл бұрын
Even just one day of remote work would significantly reduce the carbon footprint of various corporations. The CEO can also stop flying a private jet but we're trying to be realistic
@planefan082
@planefan082 2 жыл бұрын
Actually, not necessarily. In some cases, it's a bit less efficient (less centralized HVAC, second 'copies' of equipment at home, increased cloud usage) especially if employees live nearby and/or take their transit system. One day a week is probably the worst case scenario IMO
@tvgr8218
@tvgr8218 Жыл бұрын
yeah google offices has hybrid work environment they come to office 3 days and work from home 2 days
@steffey4225
@steffey4225 2 жыл бұрын
As somebody in my early 20's who hasn't worked at a job yet this year a bit of my story might be appreciated here! I've been cruising on currency I saved up doing inadvisable stuff like 16 hour back to back shifts and 65+ hour work weeks. I was a caregiver for elderly and it was purposeful work but I burned out from the stress. Free time to reflect and opening your mind is important, feeling "nothing HAS to be the way it is" really gives you options in life. As it happens where I was a caregiver wants me back and I'm planning to go in this coming week to see how much "willing to work with you on wage" means, wish me luck!
@BirgitProfessional
@BirgitProfessional 2 жыл бұрын
Good luck 🙃
@cubeofcheese5574
@cubeofcheese5574 2 жыл бұрын
I have started thinking about that phrase so much recently "things don't have to be like this" and all its iterations. Glad to see other people are too
@steffey4225
@steffey4225 2 жыл бұрын
@@BirgitProfessional thank you paws
@coolioso808
@coolioso808 2 жыл бұрын
It is truly unfortunate the way our social system burdens and stresses our lives. The capitalist drive for profit over people is so destructive. People are not 'lazy' by birth they become lazy, often, by the exclusive structure of our socio-economic system. A labor-for-income system. Is it not ridiculous, in our technical age, that we need to labor for some man-made concept of money so we can at least have food, water, shelter and clothing? We've put a price tag on our basic needs without realizing we are destroying ourselves and our planet. People tend to think if our basic needs were free then we would just sit around all day 'doing nothing', well to be quite frank, people sitting around 'doing nothing' all day are far less of a burden and stress on the environment than a oil executive making an order to build another deep-sea drilling operation or a Starbucks executive building another exclusive coffee shop, using all those resources to build the store for COFFEE that could be easily provided in a vending machine. And, furthermore, people wouldn't just sit around all day. People who choose do things that they already like to do when they do find free time in this crazy world. They go out, see family and friends, help somebody move or clean or build/fix something. They explore, they fish, they play, they exercise they create. We don't need some capitalist monetary profit system telling us what we should or shouldn't do. We need to do more with less. And we can, if we let automation and collaborative innovation do its thing without the unnecessary barrier of monetary cost.
@steffey4225
@steffey4225 2 жыл бұрын
@@coolioso808 nah fr tho that paragraph that starts "People..." ends "machine."? Big fiery facts, cause who cares if we're happy playing video games and getting out of our right mind, never costs even 4 digits a month. Not like I'm buying a yacht for my vacation pad in Monaco.
@Blue-pb7kz
@Blue-pb7kz 2 жыл бұрын
"You sell your time and expertise cutting cucumbers to make money" yes AND your boss owns the knife and cutting board and has a contract with the cucumber supplier! That's kind of a big deal. Trading work for wages wouldn't be quite the same if the workers were the ones who owned the means of production.
@robinmathew9029
@robinmathew9029 2 жыл бұрын
there are lot of owning places where workers own production like freelance jobs and they still cry how bad doing everything
@repcek22
@repcek22 2 жыл бұрын
is not completely true, many companies pay stock options to employees, which technically means you become a shareholder. "Seizing means of production" was tried in 20 century and failed very badly.
@krunkle5136
@krunkle5136 2 жыл бұрын
Then the workers would become the new owners and there'd be a new class division between workers that do the hard work and the ones that do the manegerial work. Complex systems have hierarchies.
@coolioso808
@coolioso808 2 жыл бұрын
Labor-for-income dynamic is oppressive and exploitative, by design. That's what market capitalism demands. It's not going to get much better when the system is still operating on its incentives for profit-maximizing above all else, including health and well-being. There is a big difference between technical efficiency and market efficiency. Poverty could have been ended decades ago because it was technically possible to do so. Poverty still exists today because the market has not found a profitable way to address it. Same goes for just about every problem. More people should understand this. Market capitalism is socially, environmentally and economically unsustainable. We need system change or things will continue to get worse and worse for more and more people.
@krunkle5136
@krunkle5136 2 жыл бұрын
@@coolioso808 tell that to Black Rock. I think public services including housing, medical, education etc that are good quality, would alleviate the barriers to lowering income inequality. But I don't think the system should entirely not reward people who work smarter/harder, but balance is needed.
@julianakon1565
@julianakon1565 2 жыл бұрын
i'm still a student so i don't work yet, but this is what I'm wishing for my and everyone's future to look like. i want to work out of passion like i do with all my creative hobbies like sewing and gardening instead of spending hours at an office computer doing meaningless tasks. thank you for this great video and for instilling hope in me with your meaningful work
@loturzelrestaurant
@loturzelrestaurant 2 жыл бұрын
Great Supplement all around for this video or even channel here: ‚Some More News’.
@coolioso808
@coolioso808 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome. Great thoughts. Hope to see the same sort of future for you and everybody else. I'll just throw out a thought to consider: we can't get to a point where we can be sustainable when we still filter everything through a monetary-market system, i.e. capitalism. So, all the good intentions in the world won't make a difference unless we are willing to understand the economic flaw and change the system. I suggest from our market economy to a Natural Law Resource Based Economy. In a NLRBE creative folks like you would be able to help out with sewing and gardening some of the time, have your basic needs ensured, and have plenty of other time for leisure, recreation and socializing. Even better -the planet could actually be livable and regenerate.
@user-gu9yq5sj7c
@user-gu9yq5sj7c Жыл бұрын
I would suggest following your dream. Cause Bubzbeauty shared a story that she was convinced out of being a fashion designer and spent four years in college to do some regular job and not doing it. And those four years of college being a waste. She became a successful fashion designer.
@Radhaun
@Radhaun 2 жыл бұрын
it's probably pretty cliche, but when I think of a world without currency or wage labor, I really do think of Star Trek. but not Starfleet. I think of Picard's brother, who scolds him for being gone all the time and devoted his life to making wine and running their family vineyard. I think of the scientist pushing the boundaries of their fields without having to worry about whether or not they'll get funding. The world of Star Trek definitely isn't perfect, there are plenty of planets within the alliance that are real hellholes, but there are also places where people can pursue artisan crafts without worrying about if they can make enough money to live. that's the kind of world I hope for our grandchildren. I don't think our generation is going to see it...
@terrylanmanalansan1329
@terrylanmanalansan1329 2 жыл бұрын
That’s a kardashev type 3 civilization. However, we need to get to type 1 first. We’ll need to slowly transition from everything we know now to something that we still don’t know yet. That includes a different economic and political system.
@coolioso808
@coolioso808 2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful example. I often think of Star Trek, too, as an aspiration example of a possible human future. Whether we get to that sort of moneyless, sustainable, high-tech, free and healthy future is unknown, but the question is: are we at least aware that it is possible to begin building towards that? Despite all the things going against us, the increasing knowledge of more people wanting something different, something better and the growing desire for system change may be what sets us off on that path. Check out the principles of a resource-based economy, and the "5 Great Economic Transitions" by Peter Joseph that are real-life, current trends that we could develop more to help us make a positive transition to a better system. We've got to start local, wherever local is for you. If we can get even one community to really go full RBE, and seeing believing, we could really have a snowball effect!
@Macabresque
@Macabresque 2 жыл бұрын
​@@coolioso808 Your optimism is admirable and inspiring. I too daydream of Star Trek levels of utopian society. Resource-based economies are such an interesting solution. Thanks for the reminder of the path we should be working towards.
@coolioso808
@coolioso808 2 жыл бұрын
@@Macabresque Thanks. It's always good to find more smart and like-minded individuals like yourself who could be allies in the future. A resource based economy is a very viable and sustainable alternative to what we are living in now, but to get there I can only see it being done by mass civil disobedience with a plan of action and demands to take down the oppressive market capitalist system. Hope to have people like you on our side for that push. Should you have any questions about transitions or just how RBE would look/work, let me know. I, personally, don't describe a RBE as utopian because utopia doesn't really exist. But an RBE would be so much healthier and happier of a society than we have now, it would definitely seem like a utopia. There would still be tragedies and such in a RBE, but people would not suffer needlessly, people would not be oppressed an exploited to such dangerous and despicable degrees as they are in a dictatorial capitalist world. We can do better. We should do better.
@Andy-gg4xw
@Andy-gg4xw Жыл бұрын
Oh, that would be lovely.
@Marrianno
@Marrianno 2 жыл бұрын
It just breaks my heart how I, whos currently learning at second year of collage, will need to spend so much time on work while neglect my own health, needs, hobbies because of it. Its just depressing. And at jobs that are usually done by passion, art related, are paid little to nothing
@thoughtprism2963
@thoughtprism2963 2 жыл бұрын
Exactly. This is what I tell everybody. Regardless of whether or not you think Socialism, Anarchism, or Communism are viable replacement systems, Capitalism HAS to go, or humankind is doomed to a slow, painful demise alongside the Earth.
@justsomenobody889
@justsomenobody889 2 жыл бұрын
I think it's important that aspects of capitalism are protected. For example, keeping supply-and-demand forces unimpeded by corrupted, fruitless governmental red tape, and protecting competition so that small businesses can thrive using strong anti-trust laws and things like that. Because in the end, whether it be a business, a government, or a business-government combo like we currently have, it all is the same thing... a group of people who eventually become too powerful and end up becoming corrupt and exploitative. Putting a different name on the group who does it doesn't change the eventuality that it will happen.
@facelessdrone
@facelessdrone 2 жыл бұрын
@@justsomenobody889 the things you just described you wanted to keep are literally anti capitalist.. they are literally socialist ideas... capitalism has tried to and actively benefits from demolishing them, because it gives giant corps immense profit to work hand in hand with corrupt rulers... how do younot see that capitalism is the biggest issue in our culture? Libraries, schools, hospitals, churches, all of these things that the vast majority of people rely on, are socialist programs...
@johnwalker5366
@johnwalker5366 2 жыл бұрын
Capitalism is the only one that works , ie you have rights, freedom to walk away, under Communism 1% have it all ,and 99% are the peasents working for them ,i dont expect to be in the 1% do you??
@TruffleSeeker54
@TruffleSeeker54 2 жыл бұрын
I don't understand your way of thinking at all. Capitalism is buying and selling things, that's it. Sometimes a business is operating unethically because the wrong people are in charge, they allow their workers to be exploited. But capitalism itself is neither good nor bad, like I said it's just buying and selling. Abuse of power is a people problem, not a capitalism problem. I've worked at a non-profit animal shelter, and the head manager was essentially feared and hated by everyone who worked there. On my first day, my coworker was crying because a dog nearly ripped her throat out. And my boss's response? "Well I'm glad you're okay". She didn't do anything to prevent it from happening again, basically. There wasn't enough personal protective equipment for us to handle the animals, most of the employees were young part-timers with very little training. The sound of barking from the dogs was probably loud enough to be an OSHA violation, since it damages hearing. There were cameras all over, and she didn't want you to sit down or to ever stop working. She fired me because I needed to take time off for a necessary medical surgery, with a week to recover. Legally, there wasn't much I could do, but I am lucky that I didn't have to work there for very long. I also really liked working at a Stew Leonard's grocery store, they gave all the employees a ton of free food (coffee, tea, milk, lemonade, iced tea, fruit juice, bananas, bread, coffee cake, regular cake, donuts, etc) flexible scheduling, and would prefer to train and hire people within the company rather than outside of it. There was a job board inside the lunchroom with new positions available. The people who I worked with were all super friendly too. But honestly, I don't see how the world could function without buying and selling things. Work has to be done in order for us to fulfill our most basic needs, such as farming, building houses, plumbing and electrical work, etc. How would you hire someone to give you their labor and expertise without compensating them in some way? If the government owns everything because private land ownership is abolished, then what is preventing the government from taking my house, local park or cemetery and building a factory or a parking lot?
@coolioso808
@coolioso808 2 жыл бұрын
@@TruffleSeeker54 If capitalism is "just" buying and selling then it means everything is up for sale, including small businesses, politicians, regulations, important land, military equipment and harmful chemicals a company might put into their product or dump in the water supply, because they can and because they can make a profit from it. Since those regulations that are supposed to stop that from happening are also bought, that's why these things that you see as "corruption" are actually just capitalism: buying and selling things. People are just playing the game capitalism is dictating. And you call people the problem? It's a system problem, not a specific people problem. We weren't always this way and we don't always have to be this way. Our longest, most successful stretch as humankind was working together, with no money or markets in egalitarian communities. That was over 95% of our human history. So this 'blip' we are living in now isn't they only way we can live. It's actually the most destructive way we could be living in such a technologically advanced age. Can't you think outside of the box? It's not 'capitalism or socialism' and that's the only ways to live. Have you considered a Natural Law Resource Based Economy? That goes beyond the need for politics, ongoing poverty, war and even money. Technically, we don't need it, we need simplified, focused work on ensuring people have their basic needs met, with aid of efficiency-increasing technology. Nobody has to 'take your stuff'. A bunch of dudes forming a 'government' don't need to have 'take people's things' power. That's just paranoid propaganda speaking from an capitalist age we are living in.
@martijn2246
@martijn2246 2 жыл бұрын
as a student I see fellow students work themselves into a burnout when they are not even in their 30s. A lot of my friends have no time for sports or friends in certain times when school is very demanding. Can't imagine when they get into the workplace what would happen.
@leon.2023
@leon.2023 2 жыл бұрын
I really thought the pandemic would change how a lot of people view their relationship with work. But more and more these remote jobs are disappearing silently back into the office, and we’re going right back into the stress-filled labour we were in Pre-2020.
@robertsonleo4155
@robertsonleo4155 Жыл бұрын
Most times it amazes me greatly the way I move from an average lifestyle to earning over 63k per month, utter shock is the word. have understood a lot in the past few years to doubt that opportunities abound in the financial markets, The only thing is to know where to focus.
@oscarkelly3378
@oscarkelly3378 Жыл бұрын
Wow buddy, that's more than a mouthful of profits you're making. How do you achieve this feat consistently? You must be a genius in trading.
@robertsonleo4155
@robertsonleo4155 Жыл бұрын
@@oscarkelly3378 Anyways not actually, what I know about trading almost borders on zilch lol. I make huge profits on my investment since I started trading with Mrs Debbie Ramirez, her trading strategies are top notch coupled with the little commission she charges on her trade.
@robertsonleo4155
@robertsonleo4155 Жыл бұрын
@RONATO Johnson My coin stays right in my trading account, my account just mirrors her trades in real-time that's the idea behind copy trading.
@johnnycharles4163
@johnnycharles4163 Жыл бұрын
Technically crypto has already taken a high rate in the financial markets,
@oscarkelly3378
@oscarkelly3378 Жыл бұрын
@RONATO Johnson Same here, My portfolio has been going down the drain while I try trading, I just don't know what do wrong, have invested $18,000 in crypto all have now is just $5365.
@jbbresers
@jbbresers 2 жыл бұрын
Before the industrial revolution people only averaged 20 hours of work a week. This was often skewed seasonally, with long working weeks in the good Summer weather and lots of time off when the Winter weather prevented work.
@meepy546
@meepy546 Жыл бұрын
Industrial revolution and its consequences
@IronKnight2402
@IronKnight2402 2 жыл бұрын
I like to think that this is a substitute for a Second Thought video this Friday. For context, JT wasn't able to upload today because he got the 'rona.
@OurChangingClimate
@OurChangingClimate 2 жыл бұрын
I honored that I'm a viable substitute in for JT 🙏
@nomeca961
@nomeca961 2 жыл бұрын
@@OurChangingClimate your not a viable substitute your his counter part lol
@ecoRfan
@ecoRfan 2 жыл бұрын
Poor guy. I got it a month ago. Seems a lot of us being more careful got it since last month. Took me over 2 years into the pandemic.
@Dragrath1
@Dragrath1 2 жыл бұрын
This is why I am currently a jobless bum recent graduate(retroactive graduation with a MS in physics because apparently taking 2 semesters off because of the pandemic unenrolls you and a PhD is considered the bare minimum to get a job as a physicist) frankly I don't know what to do given I know my ADHD brain and background in physic with an interest in complex systems are my best assets but I have had no idea how to reach a situation where anything like that could be achieved I see so many systemic problems the more I look when searching for a job and how little functional value there is being achieved and or appreciated. How can I be part of the solution not the problem?
@4-kathryn
@4-kathryn 2 жыл бұрын
A couple of years ago I logged onto Cleverbot and started a conversation... she replied, "So what do you do for living?" Me: "Why? Why does it matter?" It hit me just how much our society has work on the brain; its above everything else it seems. Think the better question to pose is, What hobbies do you enjoy? ... because not all people love the work they do or are even working in the first-place. Some are stay-at-home parents but that seems shameful saying that ...so why bother? I'm thankful my husband works however it would be nice if they cut his hours.
@renatanovato9460
@renatanovato9460 2 жыл бұрын
I loved "play above toy". In this capitalist society toy is everything. Ppl tend to think that if you are lying down looking at the sky, enjoying the sun warmth, the beauty of a blue sky and eventually a hird flying by is procrastination!
@christill
@christill 2 жыл бұрын
Happily unemployed since Covid furlough ended in September 2020 when my former employer tried to force me back to the daily grind. I’ve been doing the best work I’ve ever done for the planet and humanity since then.
@TheFxEditor
@TheFxEditor 2 жыл бұрын
So what do you do now?
@christill
@christill 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheFxEditor Nothing. That’s the point. To reduce economic and environmental impact to a minimum. I would like to do more activism locally but we still have 112,000 covid cases every day in the U.K. with no restrictions. And I’m not interested in becoming chronically ill with long covid. And what do I really do if I could? Tell the council to ban cars or overthrow the political system? No one will listen to me because they’re all living in a fantasy world.
@TheFxEditor
@TheFxEditor 2 жыл бұрын
@@christill I see. I live in the US, kind of difficulty to do nothing in this country. homelessness is not a good option at all. I only ask cause our society expects us to work and work is kind of tied to our survival (which I would love for that to change).
@christill
@christill 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheFxEditor It’s not really different. I live with my Mum and brother. I’m fortunate that I can do it and we’re all on the same page as far as the climate and so on goes. Sadly very few people have a family that will support them fully to be a full time activist / economic growth opt-outer. I started to think about it when the government was paying people to stay home during the first lockdown, and we had conversations about how feasible it might be, and eventually decided it was possible. But it was also about covid, because I knew when I was being asked to go back to work that cases were increasing again, so that gave me the final push to quit. If a lot of people gave up on the idea of living alone in early adulthood, it would solve so many problems and put the economic growth system under the pressure we need.
@debutchi
@debutchi 2 жыл бұрын
@@christill can u elaborate on that last statement about young adults not living on their own? what are the benefits? I’m almost 30 and still living with my parents and have internalized societal guilt about that meaning I’ve failed myself and can’t be independent. But it’s like this for a multitude of reasons (largely regarding mental health) so I’m intrigued by your statement.
@MaximusMongoose
@MaximusMongoose 2 жыл бұрын
This video compliments "How money works" A Boring Job is a dream job.
@user-em6ie2be7x
@user-em6ie2be7x 2 жыл бұрын
America's Motto should be Work or Die.
@GTAVictor9128
@GTAVictor9128 2 жыл бұрын
In fact, quite a few capitalists and conservatives have unironically claimed that "Work makes you free" without being aware of the connotations.
@dudono1744
@dudono1744 Жыл бұрын
@@GTAVictor9128 isn't that what is wrote on Auschwitz's gate ? (in german ofc)
@GTAVictor9128
@GTAVictor9128 Жыл бұрын
@@dudono1744 Yes, that is what I meant by "connotations".
@Fido-vm9zi
@Fido-vm9zi 9 ай бұрын
You are right
@angelawildman122
@angelawildman122 2 жыл бұрын
As a survivor of childhood trauma and abuse, I really feel where sweatshop workers are coming from 😿
@SiSwitzer
@SiSwitzer 2 жыл бұрын
Love the ideas and sentiments in this video…..a personal example for me is volunteering at my local CSA; as well as helping with the picking and packing, just recently we had a work day where a group of us gave our time to do some much needed maintenance and the feeling of connection and well being of working together in a group for no financial gain was incredibly precious, and an insight into how we as humans have worked together in community long before capitalism was around and how it could be if we can throw off the shackles of wage slavery🤩✊ great video, thanks a million🙌😍
@xHaniffax
@xHaniffax 2 жыл бұрын
Gosh. This made me cry. Your content just gets stronger and stronger - please keep going.
@j3nki541
@j3nki541 2 жыл бұрын
I switched to a 3 workday week a while back and my life has improved by 3000%
@kathryncryts5537
@kathryncryts5537 2 жыл бұрын
As always, these videos make me rethink the way I think about our society. Thank you so much for always making such insightful videos
@randyramos4958
@randyramos4958 2 жыл бұрын
thank you all for these valuable videos
@OurChangingClimate
@OurChangingClimate 2 жыл бұрын
thanks for watching!
@NomadAlly
@NomadAlly 2 жыл бұрын
Great job 👍
@poppanaattori89
@poppanaattori89 2 жыл бұрын
This was great! The feelings of meaninglessness are easy to take hold when living a marginalized and isolated life as a person who is unemployed. These kinds of reminders that my struggles are not in vain move me in a profound way and give me hope. The problem still stands (for me) in how to organize an alternative lifestyle of respectful co-operation when co-operation as a concept is so widely frowned upon, and when it is not, the co-operation happens inside the confines of the current system that needs a resolute overhaul.
@Celis.C
@Celis.C 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this. The past few months I've been sick and tired of the system that wrecks our lives and videos like this one keep my spirits up. If I could also make one request, then I'd be very interested in hearing a podcast/discussion between you, Second Thought and possibly a few others in which you discuss how a transition from late-capitalism to a better system could look.
@TheFxEditor
@TheFxEditor 2 жыл бұрын
I second this comment too. I would love to see them all discuss it out.
@thesilencebehindsounds
@thesilencebehindsounds 2 жыл бұрын
what's the others you would invite? sounds amazing!
@terran9264
@terran9264 2 жыл бұрын
Our Changing Climate collab on The Deprogram? I'm down for that!
@Celis.C
@Celis.C 2 жыл бұрын
@@thesilencebehindsounds Personally I only know a handful of people, but I believe the guys will know some great partners for this topic. I'm also curious about a female perspective, I'm sad to say I don't know any ladies discussing this topic, but I'd love to hear recommendations :)
@scottiejohnson2639
@scottiejohnson2639 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for all you do. 🙏🏼
@AndersJensen1977
@AndersJensen1977 2 жыл бұрын
So true, Im working with customerservice and bookkeeping so 99% of my work is answering questions about prises and invoices. Im advocating for a Ressorcesbased economy
@BearsThatCare
@BearsThatCare 2 жыл бұрын
Been waiting for this video
@mirar7549
@mirar7549 2 жыл бұрын
I left my office job to work on a farm.. My time is valuable to me & I’m not spending my energy or stress on a multi million corporate company where I have never met the owners, they’ve never even been there once & they don’t even know they workers.
@dr.diggle5157
@dr.diggle5157 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for all you do, channels like yours are being demonetized, but here you are day in and day out. No matter, if you're a socialist or right-wing in discussion, your thoughts shouldn't be censored. Take away discussion and you rid the world of solutions.
@nagisa8923
@nagisa8923 2 жыл бұрын
Such a great episode - as always ! Reminds me of the Fisherman’s Parable which also very well sums up this whole paradoxe
@4eolian
@4eolian 2 жыл бұрын
what a great video. You explain well, and the way you edit gives us the leverage to think about the subject as you go. It's very engaging. I think it can become quite complex the more you deep dive into that kind of subject. Well done!
@I.____.....__...__
@I.____.....__...__ 2 жыл бұрын
They don't even say "for a living", they just ask "what do you do?" And when introducing people (eg on game-shows), people are described by their jobs. People's identities now ARE their jobs, it's often all they have, which is why so many people, when they retire, they don't know what to do with their lives anymore, because they've lost the only thing they had to live for (and some actually resort to "ending" their retirement early). Most people have no interests or hobbies, they only have _work._ 🤦
@Ozrictentacles87
@Ozrictentacles87 Жыл бұрын
It’s really sad actually
@heychrisfox
@heychrisfox 2 жыл бұрын
I just wish I could embrace the optimism in this video. I had an eye-opening thing happen a few weeks ago. My crew at work actually started talking openly about a 4 day work week. I was ecstatic, I was so ready to see what they said, especially as normal people, who assumably have normal lives, and aren't connected to post-capitalist thought at all. They universally hated it. I was the only one of 6 people who thought it was a good idea. They said they'd be upset without a job, that we need that fifth day to complete our tasks (which isn't true). They said it didn't make a lot of sense, and that things wouldn't work that way. I kept my opinions low key because I didn't want to influence the conversation. But man, it was depressing to hear SO MANY people - people who are nice and well meaning - being so hostile to an idea that would directly benefit to them. Even when, at other times, they'll complain about how stressful our jobs are, or how they wish they had more free time. It's like, GUYS, there are alternatives but you don't want them! It's like trying to help someone who is overeating, but every chance they get, they go eat burgers even when they know they don't like to eat that food. I don't know how any of us can possibly solve this.
@batty_babette
@batty_babette 2 жыл бұрын
I know! It's so imbedded in people that things can't be different it's insane. I had. A coworker told me that if he could he would be at work all the time, 7 days a week and that he wishes he could do 12 hour shifts in order to make more money. The only thing I could think was, how would you even enjoy any of that money working all the time??
@moonlight_cat_27
@moonlight_cat_27 2 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't blame aliens for laughing at us destroying ourselves. I wish I could be more optimistic... but I can't. :(
@repcek22
@repcek22 2 жыл бұрын
I work also some weekends, once you really like what you do it is not much of a burden
@heychrisfox
@heychrisfox 2 жыл бұрын
​@@repcek22 But science fundamentally disagrees. All the research out there insists that people who work less are happier, healthier, and have more fulfilling lives. If you like working overtime, that's fine. But you're always making a trade. A trade in your present for money. And separate research proves money doesn't buy happiness. So what are you actually doing, then, besides filling your waking hours with time spent, rather than doing things you enjoy?
@repcek22
@repcek22 2 жыл бұрын
Moat people who are best in their fields and craft, don't work typically 40h...I was in academia for a while. Ph.D students work crazy hours. Some Profesors aswell. Then if you are a top athlete...your life is basically your sport with little free time here and there. If you have your own business, first years are tough and you work a lot. So working 40h is still not that much and lets be honest most salary workers (especially office) dont work full eight hours. If people get 4 productive hours in a work day that is a success.
@DanceUnderInfluence
@DanceUnderInfluence 2 жыл бұрын
Wow, great video once again!
@8lec_R
@8lec_R 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for not disappointing me. Great video.
@toychristopher
@toychristopher 2 жыл бұрын
This video is so important. I want the life described in this video so much.
@jackmccarthy4047
@jackmccarthy4047 2 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on what education should look like (if you haven't done it already). As someone studying to be a teacher, I would like to see some change in what and how we teach; Something that fosters creativity and environmental protection instead of setting people up to work their lives away.
@dudono1744
@dudono1744 Жыл бұрын
I think a lot of flexibility is needed, giving everyone the same thing doesn't work.
@Christina-qk2jx
@Christina-qk2jx 2 жыл бұрын
Once again, such a good video. Please keep up your good work!!
@skelitalmisfit12
@skelitalmisfit12 2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video! Thank you!
@ZacTBH
@ZacTBH 2 жыл бұрын
listening to this video was like a breathe of fresh air, no BS just facts. thank you
@seitanbeatsyourmeat666
@seitanbeatsyourmeat666 2 жыл бұрын
I’d like to be a vegan baker. I can’t afford to buy enough ingredients for those that would come for the food, but if I got the ingredients from a socialist government, I’d bake all day for free
@FujinKeima
@FujinKeima 2 жыл бұрын
We need more vegan bakers in this world! Hope you manage to get what you need.
@bronzejunglepls
@bronzejunglepls 2 жыл бұрын
This is probably one of my favourite videos you've made :)
@cutekitty0118
@cutekitty0118 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video as always!
@zehrajafri9252
@zehrajafri9252 2 жыл бұрын
Just by comparing the wage of a CEO to that of a worker in the same company can explain all the exploitation system at work.
@user-gu9yq5sj7c
@user-gu9yq5sj7c Жыл бұрын
The CEO owns the business, has to paid high expenses for it and to workers, save some for future investments or projects, and some of them suffered risks or losses to start their business. I'm not saying there isn't mistreatment of workers. Other people can make their own business. A business can have one person. Why aren't people criticizing as much politicians stealing taxes to make themselves rich? When no one votes for that. Or too much taxes going to the military, and not enough to the citizens.
@EmeraldView
@EmeraldView 2 жыл бұрын
Case in point. When I first started driving for Uber, I didn't particularly need the money. Certainly not for surviving. I totally enjoyed the work. It let me get out of the house, meet different people, engage them in conversation, listen to music, or podcasts, and the money wasn't particularly important. It was extra income. Not survival income. And I could do it whenever I liked, 20 - 30 hours a week. Well when I began making Uber a full time job that I needed for basic survival needs (and as the wear-and-tear was taking a toll on my car and increasing my expenses exponentially not to mention fuel prices), I began getting incredibly depressed, frustrated, and even very angry at the low fares, at passengers who didn't tip, about the abusive and exploitative nature of the algorithm and how much Uber was taking from every fare in order to fund the CEO's $33,000 a day salary (among other high paid executives, board members, share holders). I began not wanting to even speak with passengers. And sending snide remarks to UberEats customers who didn't put an upfront tip and expected me to take a 20 minute delivery order for them for $4.50 . I would end my day in rage. I literally began to HATE the work, because of the low / exploitative pay for income that I absolutely NEEDED to meet my own living expenses, most particularly to fuel and fix the very machine I use to do the job! If we had a Universal Basic Income that provided enough income for all basic needs of living (food, shelter, clothing, transportation), and any other work you did was just for the extras (and upgrades) in life, then I would have a much better outlook on doing the work, and would want to do it for the enjoyment of doing it, and feeling useful. Of course that would also entail my NOT being financially responsible for the equipment required to do the job, that would also need to end, where every pothole you hit is like a knife being stuck in you as you realize it's only a matter of time before you're going to need expensive repairs, cutting into (if not entirely eliminating) the income you did earn.
@loturzelrestaurant
@loturzelrestaurant 2 жыл бұрын
Great Supplement all around for this video or even channel here: ‚Some More News’. And Second Thought also.
@ernestopires7219
@ernestopires7219 2 жыл бұрын
My agreement with the words is total. I've never been able to get into any job, not because I'm lazy or less fit than others but I've simply always found all the work either useless or over-exploitative or conducted by archaic hierarchical superiors or, and perhaps most importantly, because they never satisfied my creative skills. I've done the most diverse jobs, from HR manager to dishwasher, from translator to polyvalent worker, from professional theatre to metal parts washer for engines. At 55, it's frustrating. I still continue to do whatever I have to do in order to survive with my two amazing kids (13 and 8 yo) and I still be searching for the pleasure in live. A live where the work plays a nice role.
@DanielHowardIRE
@DanielHowardIRE Жыл бұрын
One of the main reasons I become a teacher here in Ireland is because I believe it's important and meaningful. It can be tough teaching secondary school students at times but it's also rewarding. The sad thing is Ireland also being a very capitalistic society which has essentially imitated the US and the UK, no longer values jobs like teachers, nurses, caregivers and farmers. Also the emphasis in recent years has been on tech jobs, many of which are copy and paste jobs as described in the video. Consequently, Ireland like many other countries is facing a recruitment crisis. There's a huge lack of teachers, nurses, caregivers, sales assistants, waiters and even doctors. Dublin airport is a disaster because many staff were let go during the pandemic and few have returned, and this is the same in many other airports around the world. However, I think we're living in a very exciting time because it's the first time in decades that workers have power to demand better pay and conditions. We're now seeing workers around the world starting to organise themselves and unionise such as Amazon workers. My hat off to them! As Lenin once said: "There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen."
@Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear
@Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video :)
@caitlinnnnnnnnnnnnnn
@caitlinnnnnnnnnnnnnn 2 жыл бұрын
I recently watched fight club for the first time and this whole video felt like an updated extension of that discussion. Now I find myself fantasising about that final scene, where all the banks plummett into the tarmac and we usher in a new era of carbon consciousness while vibing to the pixies
@formarkv
@formarkv 2 жыл бұрын
I love KZfaq. I cant believe this kind of content is allowed in our capitalist 1984 propagandized entertainment. Won't see it on cable news that's for sure
@alexanderdillmann4338
@alexanderdillmann4338 2 жыл бұрын
Great video like always!!
@mtap9
@mtap9 Жыл бұрын
I love your work. I shared one of your American Imperialism video on Monday for a Tuesday class. They’re in 80s, and long time activists. They really appreciated it. We had a very good class discussion.
@vladimir0700
@vladimir0700 2 жыл бұрын
I agree with pretty much everything in this video but I don’t see it changing anytime soon-if ever
@wecx2375
@wecx2375 2 жыл бұрын
Facts, I wouldn't be able to feed myself without a job.
@joffroyboutin7456
@joffroyboutin7456 2 жыл бұрын
There was a time when you owned what you made until you sold it. A blacksmith owned the products he made and means to make theme until they where sold. Now, big executives do everything they can to force small business owners out of business in order to force them to work for them. Worst, they make theme work for them as employees and don't even consider them as such so they dont have to pay them benefits or health insurance.
@bigguitaralex
@bigguitaralex 2 жыл бұрын
Great topic! Well done
@dulcepaolagaminocampos8059
@dulcepaolagaminocampos8059 2 жыл бұрын
Love your videos dude. They should get to more people.
@JaySmith91
@JaySmith91 2 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure about the 'work because you want to ... and help your neighbor build their house' thing - Doesn't that imply that we are throwing away specialization? I would much rather focus on improving productivity though process improvements and cutting out meaningless jobs, investing resources heavily in meaningful jobs (teaching and healthcare perhaps), and cutting out wastes such as fast fashion, plastic junk and planned obsolescence. People should be allowed the opportunity to pursue any specialization they want. Once you reduce waste and increase efficiencies, that needs to be followed by massive balance of power and massive improvement in equality - Share the fruits of productivity more evenly - giving everyone the necessities, non-means-tested, whilst giving everyone an equal playing field to work towards their ambition (by providing all with basic services such as free education, free public transportation, free childcare, and regulation to promote less biased hiring practices).
@Skatenlove24
@Skatenlove24 2 жыл бұрын
This is a big dream for me. To just be less stressed out by work and stop this constant grind culture. I've always been called slow and its hard to be useful in a fast paced world but really can people just chill out a bit. Might do ya good.
@Marrianno
@Marrianno 2 жыл бұрын
Same, I get scolded and looked upon so much because i do everything slowly. If I try to do something faster I just end up messing everything up, yet still people expect more from me
@Fido-vm9zi
@Fido-vm9zi 9 ай бұрын
Turtle & Hare. You guys are just more internally versus externally focused.
@edredwhittingham4417
@edredwhittingham4417 2 жыл бұрын
One of the very best videos on this topic. Thank you VERY much!
@Hubcool367
@Hubcool367 2 жыл бұрын
One of your best videos yet mate
@electricerger
@electricerger 2 жыл бұрын
I love how it's technically illegal for me to fix potholes or volunteer at the municipal waste management site, despite the fact that I'd be doing a job that I'm good at for free.
@unlimitedoutdoors3307
@unlimitedoutdoors3307 2 жыл бұрын
The description of “shared responsibility” would be somewhat mandatory. It also sounds a lot like the “Amish” way of life. Maybe they are the pioneers in the way to a satisfying way of living.
@sebastienfournier8901
@sebastienfournier8901 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful video. Great ideas with concrete arguments and solutions presented. This gives me hope
@sophiaglass2000
@sophiaglass2000 2 жыл бұрын
My plan for the future is volunteer and co-op work. I did the math and could probably make it on a part time wage if I took advantage of volunteer run and co-op services throughout my town. The bus system is decent, and that combined with a bicycle makes most areas accessible to me (barring the height of humid summer when I hole up inside past morning). There are community vegitable, fruit and nut gardens even with some native species, a bicycle repair co-op and tool library, and so much more. I think I could live good like that.
@thatoneuser8600
@thatoneuser8600 2 жыл бұрын
I agree with this video that a lot of businesses and jobs are meaningless. I'd like to add an idea on how businesses should be operated: instead of a hierarchical organization for how the business should be run where it's top-down and the CEO controls the workers, I believe it should be the other way around-bottom-up so that the workers have more power and can vote the CEO out and replace him if he gets exploitative. The CEO can do his work as before, but now with the threat that he can't just overwork his workers without facing potential consequences. This would make the workplace more democratic and more productive. I also believe this should extend to government offices: we can vote on Congressmen, but what if they lied and are going against the will of the people? Then the people should be able to vote them out and replace them with someone else until they get a proper representative that does a good job. Think about it like this: in online multiplayer video games that are team-based such as Rocket League, League of Legends, Smite, etc., you can choose when you want to play a match. As you play, you realize your team isn't capable against the dominant skills of the enemy team, so what do you do when you know you'll lose? The point of playing these games are to win, so you'd be wasting time if you stayed in the match as you get demolished. Without a veto system, players would just go AFK and make it easier for the enemies to win to speed up the process, but with the invention of the Veto system, we can now save time by democratically voting as a team whether or not they should forfeit the match. Having this Veto system in politics would speed up the betterment of society by voting out politicians that the citizens democratically agree aren't doing a capable job.
@EmeraldView
@EmeraldView 2 жыл бұрын
Do you think if the workers had a say that the CEO of Uber would make $33,000 a day ($12 million a year), the CEO of Amazon would make $580,000 a day ($212 million a year), or Elon Musk would have his net work increase $443 million a day in 2021 ($158 billion).
@peterjol
@peterjol 2 жыл бұрын
almost all problems could be solved by making it financially worthwhile for people to SHARE the jobs we can agree we NEED people to do and work much less.....SHARE the work we need instead of working and doing anything FOR money. It would no longer be an infinite growth system on a finite planet ..sharing the work we need is entirely different to working FOR money..even if you get paid to do it.
@Beckisphere
@Beckisphere 2 жыл бұрын
Another great video! I'm figuring my next job now, so this one resinated with me especially hard. All I want to do is work on my channel and podcast, but I gotta pay my bills.
@paulavsalomao
@paulavsalomao 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, thank you!
@TennesseeJed
@TennesseeJed 2 жыл бұрын
I am livestock, but dream of De-groth.
@samuelschonenberger
@samuelschonenberger 2 жыл бұрын
What I would like to see is the different visions (maby even actual plans) people have to redistribute wealth and make sure that everyone can live a fair life at a descent standard of living A system to make sure that work really is unnecessary
@planefan082
@planefan082 2 жыл бұрын
Some work will always be necessary.. but for that, there are some people who do enjoy work
@DarkDeepGreen
@DarkDeepGreen 2 жыл бұрын
Great video 💚
@katheodo
@katheodo 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing video!
@TN-ju4ro
@TN-ju4ro 2 жыл бұрын
im watching this video as i just decided im quitting my job is so satisfying, ive definitely notice that i eat more junk food and other carbon intensive activities because of this job
@IsaacDavis69
@IsaacDavis69 2 жыл бұрын
I agree that we need to abolish wage work but I don’t see a divide between working for unionization and more power on the job and eventually abolishing capitalism. It’s the same movement, they have the same ends. Workers lives are transformed, people are moved deeper into motion, through struggle and building power at work is the best way to get working class people intro struggle to improve our lives. The more power we build, the more that we see what’s capable when we work together and win.
@andy9735
@andy9735 2 жыл бұрын
You give me strength go do my bit for the planet too, cheers mate.
@jasonlacroix6083
@jasonlacroix6083 Жыл бұрын
For those that aren't old enough to remember when phones were plugged into the wall and didn't contain the encyclopedia. You could not break the phone supplied by the phone company. Ours had a wire 100ft long, so we could get out by the pool or the driveway. We would throw the phone to someone else who wanted to talk and it was rarely caught. It didn't even get scratched. Those old Bell Telephones were the most durable items to ever exist!
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