America's Overwork Obsession
Work hard, make money, send your kids to college, retire to Florida. it sounds nice in theory, but the reality of work in America is dramatically different from the American Dream we've all been taught to believe in.
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“You aren’t paid by how hard you work, you’re paid by how hard you are to replace”
Damn..that's...that's a good one.
Capitalism.
cosmo786 eww
@@kavinsky2 Socialism works in Scandinavia That's not Socialism that's social democracy Ok. Can we do that? No that's Socialism!!! And nothing will ever change
@@totallynotme6720 Capitalism is bad, even with social democracy the 3rd world would still be exploited, Capitalism cannot sustain itself otherwise. The Nordic Countries are a tiny minority compared to all the billions living in poverty due to Capitalism. Changing to Social Democracy is only gonna improve the life of the few.
Correction: America is NOT the wealthiest nation in the world. It just has the largest economy.
True in fact a lot of tinier nation is much wealthier
and even that is mostly not true because they're just the biggest importer in the world... basically they're paying everyone because they're not fit to produce themselves
@@LoFiAxolotl they have one of if not the most diverse land. They could make products themselves but importing from countries like China makes it way easier.
Cheaper not easier**
America is wealthy, Americans are not...
"Survival porn." Our culture gets off on working ourselves to death. We wear it like a badge of pride. It's pathological.
Growing up in the United States, I did everything that I was told to do. I studied hard throughout all of my schooling. I graduated salutatorian from high school and then ultimately summa cum laude from undergrad. I went on and I got a high level professional degree. I have worked extremely hard, long hours and delivered excellent performance for the past 15 years in my work. I am not paid enough to support a family. I am not paid enough to afford to take vacations. I have no parental leave and very little time off. I am forced to work overtime against my will on an ongoing basis. I am forced to work rotating weekends and almost all holidays. I have been treated with inhuman brutality in the workplace. For performing at the highest possible level, I have received no rewards, almost no raises, no bonuses. No promotions, nothing. The reward for my hard work has been abuse, brutality, low compensation, misery, and gradually acquired chronic diseases from overwork. The American dream is a lie. The reward for doing everything perfectly, just as you're told, just as I have always done is the most unthinkable misery possible. All I have to show for my efforts is a wasted life that's been taken away from me.
💯. I learned this the hard way myself. Now i live overseas
You have achieved a lot :D SOmeone became rich because of your work. You have to learn what westers europeans have learned long ago (natural because its older nations) - slack off as much as you can and never owerwork because fruits of your work is only picked by company owners and shareholders and with this attitude somehow they are ok and even better living :D
Exactly 💯. We work, we were promised and the government failed us.
My dear, we share a very similar story. However, I live with my immediate family - and there is at least 1 family member that takes advantage of me monetarily & physically (refuses to help clean, leaving it all to me). I am still suffering from mental weight, but my physical body started to also give way…. God lead me into prayer. To get back everything that was taken from me (time, energy, etc). I wish you the best, in Jesus’ name. We cannot rely on this “lie” of a nation called U.S.A. They are not even providing the average (or under-privileged homeless & veterans) citizen adequate monetary help, yet housing/feeding thousands of illegal immigrants with full services to feed the money-making, energy-devouring “monster” that runs this country (one such nickname for that monster is capitalism among others).
Should of stayed in the kitchen where you belong.🤣
I remember at a presidential town hall when a woman told George W. Bush that she had to work three jobs to make ends meet. Bush looked at her and smiled and said, "You work three jobs? That's great. That's America!"
That makes me wanna puke with anger lol
@@kaimccool6257 Yeah. And we haven't even gotten to the part yet where Bush invaded Iraq on false pretenses and killed thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens.
Funny. In Germany it is de-facto prohibited to have more than one employment. The second will be taxed so heavily it won't worth it. So, I've got a 3rd taxation class and I pay something round about 30% (this includes all insurances, rentals, medicare for everyone in my family, etc). If I would take an another job additionally, it will be taxed by the 6th class and I'll pay about 75% as a tax. And if you're working more than 40 hours per week, your company should better have a very solid excuse for that (together with double payment for extra hours) - otherwise they'll be in trouble. I lead a team of 15 people and in my team it is prohibited to work more than 8 hours a day. In 5 years there was only one emergency accident, when I had to ask my team for extra hour and I still feel badly for it.
Says it all doesn't it?
Yesssssssss!!!!! He said it was "uniquely American". I suppose he's not wrong but he seemed proud of this. If I recall I think the audience applauded for some reason. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Politicians are so out of touch they thought she was bragging.
“If you do not know you are a slave... how do you fight to be free?” -Yeonmi Park The vast majority of Americans still believe that one’s financial status is determined only by effort. If you’re poor it’s your own fault. Can’t get a high paying job? Go to college. Don’t have a spare $50,000 ? Maybe your parents shouldn’t have been so lazy and earned more. Too bad, it’s not my fault you’re lazy, just pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
Learn to take responsibility for yourself.
@@MarkSKristensen Our people are alienated from the world
@@MarkSKristensen People shouldn't be responsabilized for themselves, most people is deeply irresponsible, you couldn't trust them whit themselves, for that is the goverment.
The middle ground is: some things we are responsible for and some things we aren't. We just need to get better at finding out which is which. Some people think you should be responsible for things completely out of your control, while other people think something isn't their fault even though they totally could have done something about it.
@@diablo.the.cheater then call it natural selection.
It's incredible how It looks like in US you're basically called "lazy" unless you work yourself to death. With no sick days...In Europe "sick days" are infinite, you stay home until you feel better
Lol youre called lazy even if you work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year but want a better life.
In Europe, you are called "crazy" if your goal is to work yourself to death
here we have the insurance when you get hurt on the job and you get paid 100% i think and it goes on for a while but you have to be seen by doctors to keep track on your recovery, then theres also medical leave it can be anything really and it can last as long as you want i think but you only get paid 60% of you salary and you have to be at least 5 days away for it to start conting
This obsession with Europe has to stop! There's a reason 1776 happened.
@@jaybleu6169 LOL. No European country is an empire like Britain used to be. "Muh free healthcare and education" cult can suck it. We aren't mirroring Europe.
51 here and totally burned out. Been working full-time since age 16. Supporting myself from age 21 to current. It’s so hard to motivate myself these days. You wonder, what’s it all for? Work your life away to survive.
I just turned 38 and this is hitting me really hard now. A lot of the time I feel lost and don't know what to do. It makes it even worse when everyone around you is so content to be defined by the work they do instead of living a happy and fulfilling life.
Pathetic
@VNB Slash 🚩🚩🚩 The working class must break the chains that bind them and stand up to the bourgeoisie
💔
we don’t have to live like this. it’s easy to see that the world sucks and it isn’t fair, but we need to start doing something about it. we need to start rebelling. not just protesting, they don’t listen to protests. i mean strikes and i mean riots. we need to completely hold the economy hostage.
You know what the most outrageous thing is about all this? That theres Americans out there that would fight against paid leave, paternity leave and working less because they somehow think its socialism/communism.
There's quite a few where I'm currently providing service(employed). Would call you lazy and no real use for wanting more time off. God forbid if you get sick.
I live in Canada, working for mining company with 5 weeks annual vacation. Did not spent a penny when my wife delivered my boy. I am so lucky be a Canadian
@@jefferywang2493 I've talked to my wife about moving to Canada. Had a great experience when I visited last year.
That's what their overlords tell them.
Yes! It is so hard to believe!
the fact that people here in america live this everyday and do not see anything wrong with it boggles my mind.
Work save some money and gamble by opening a business. Nobody is saying that you will become jeff bezos if you only work at mcd, starbucks and subway.
We are born into it. It's our reality. We are frogs already born in the pot as it's being heated. Our parents keep us out of the ever rising hot water, slowly getting us used to it as we get older. Next thing we know, we are just used to the ever rising temperature. It's just how things always have been. Any attempts to change or improve things is scary. "How dare you mess with the temperature control nob! How will we survive if the temperature goes down?" If people are not given the chance to question the system, then they will just go about their lives believing that this is normal for everyone. I have had a chance to question the system. I am aware that it is broken. But I don't know how to fix it with my meager resources. There is a lot of resistance to change. Going against the current is hard. Especially since there are people who profit off of the broken system. There are a few that keep things how they are. Spreading fear and propaganda that makes people fear change. That makes them beat down those who want to change things for the better. Honestly, I just want to get away. To go to a country where they already have the systems in place to help people survive. I know that's a selfish thought. I just don't see this country changing or improving significantly any time soon. I'm scared and frustrated. But so many still think it's fine how it is, because that's how it always has been. Sigh!
Name Here try north korea. Everyone is equal there. No rich no poor, only kim and his people.
@@Chris-ts2yc Just FYI, North Korea is definitly not an "everyone is equal" country. There are the ultra poor, and the wealthy that fear ticking off Kim. It's called a dictatorship. Something Trump seems oddly fond of. If I'm moving anywhere. I would go to any number of countries that have democracy, some kind of universal healthcare, and a government not owned by rich people. North Korea isn't anywhere on that list. Canada, and many European countries are.
They're brainwashed by religion
My father was a workaholic, he was financially comfortable, but his workaholicism destroyed him and our family.
This is why, as a young American, I've seriously been considering emigrating to somewhere like Norway, Ireland, or the Netherlands.
Those places would be great, Germany would be too, UK, honestly almost anywhere in Europe, as well as Canada, and Australia is better than US.
Funny how I came here from Brazil years ago to have a better life, well I do but I have no social life 🤣 we have no vacation in the US it sucks... all we do is work, work and work. Kinda sucks tbh. Brazil its not the best but we do get 30 days paid vacation, sick paid leave and other benefits we dont see it here.
As an older American, I'd say the sooner the better. You will be paddling against the tide, if you stay here. This country is facing some dark days in the not too distant future. Anything to the contrary is pure propaganda. Don't over think it, make the move. You'll be glad you did.
@@TAYLOR8mm America is the only place on Earth where wanting to have universal healthcare, affordable education, and paid vacation makes you entitled lol
Oh no! You are just gonna take your American ideology with you.
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they are being fooled!"
Amen. I see plenty of evidence of this every day. I've talked to many people who don't want to know the truth of reality.
Shania Twain!
This video tells me everything I already think. I've been telling people for years that they're fools for working too hard and the idea that they will become upper middle class or rich just from working hard is a stupid pipe dream and they look at me like I'm the most cynical person in the world.
@@savenetneutralityanti-repu7029 lol yep. Everyone is instilled with the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" mentality.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." John Steinbeck
It never took root because we don’t want it, although it seems like everyone on KZhead is far leftist, most of the US population does not agree with socialism.
@@visorij3374 maybe because your goverment spent the last 100 years demonizing it, even before the cold war.
@@visorij3374 you would be surprised what the youth wants. They want Europe to come to America because they want to be free
Thank you for that quote friend. I've had the same thoughts as I grew up around my brain washed friends and family. I felt like an alien unable to understand why everyone was so quick to down the koolaid and suffer in misery. They really do believe they will get to become part of the rich people club, if only they are good little girls and boys and work harder work longer work work work. Jesus.
Yeah, so we get to pay socialist taxes while receiving literally nothing but corruption in return. Yay! Seriously, use worldwide income tax calculators. It’s amazing how high it is here for nothing in return. It should like 10% for what we get!
'Deifying rich people who accumulated their wealth by exploiting others doesn't mean you smart it means you bought into their propaganda ' those words made my day
Interesting. You accurately described socialism
@@bennyl7224 socialism deifies rich people now?
@@yamanai_ame wealth accumulation by exploiting others is how things work in socialism as the rule. It happens in capitalism as the exception, and rarely does someone get away with it.
@@bennyl7224 Riiiight. So what exactly is the Gilded Age and the Great Divergence to you?
dude I haven't worked my entire life and I'm 29. I always knew the system was rigged. Fuk that. I would get jobs easily and quit on day 2. I got hired so easily in multiple sectors and hated them all. Believe it or not working restaurants is far far better than office jobs..by far the worst jobs are office jobs they suck your soul. I'm sorry but anymore then 2 days of soul sucking for me would destroy me and make me a zombie. I had to leave im glad I have becsuse the working class always seem to call me "boss" or.think I'm some extremely rich wealthy spoiled person. I seem to exude this energy. They simply have no idea that the moment you stop selling yourself to enrich others, your basically free and in control of your own life even if you make no money. Making money is not hard. Selling yourself for wages IS. People think to make money you must sell yourself. This is dumb
It's not just work but college made me go mentally insane because of its obsession with overwork, exams, unrealistic deadlines. Because of that I'm quitting college for good.
Agreed. More people need to talk about this. I’ve learned so much more at my own pace after I graduated college. Multi-tasking isn’t effective
bro just got to college. 😵💫😵💫
College is a scam
Yeah I was able to mentally power through but almost failed at the end when I ran out of steam Everything is always hyper productivity based in all aspects of life
The fact that this video would be considered “anti-capitalist” goes to show just how broken our system is.
Judging by how skewed American politics is, yes.
This is anti capitalist. I am happy for it... one cannot expect otherwise with the cancerous eternal growth of capital
It's really just a "humanitarian" video---- and since it's also apparently "anti-capitalist", we probably will reach the conclusion that capitalism is anti-humanitarian.
@@splattercatbambi4965 > This is anti capitalist It is against raw, untempered capitalism. Untempered capitalism tends to move to the exploitation of workers, fueled by the greed of those that have capital (equity). This we saw clearly in the nineteenth century. Read some Dickens to get the picture. To prevent this, we need to temper capitalism with measures that protect the poor from exploitation. How that can best be done was discovered in the early twentieth century. Most of it was born out of Christian compassion with our less fortunate fellow beings. Now the USA is repeating history, in the USA today we recognise some of the excesses we find so cruel and disgusting in Dickens. It is time for the nation to again get a conscience, and take some of the sting out of american capitalism. The two areas most in need of reform are *Education* and *Health Care* .
@@TheEvertw untempered capitalism is a tautology
Like George Carlin once said: “That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
Damn, this hit different
I miss George!!!
Just a dream
@@funveeable back in 1980, dreams were possible. But this is 2020, we've woken up by now.
antargaming in no communist country could you get this because it’s enough wealth for several families like the fuck
I've spent a lot of time abroad, both volunteering and traveling, and I've noticed fairly consistently that people in developing countries are happier than we are. Kids have a huge amount of freedom. People take afternoon naps because, god forbid they're tired.
leave wimp
thus need to bring war and same capitalism and whatnot to force them to be unhappy... thats the way it is.... happy person wont work without reason.
@@peartfaldo gladly will and not wanting to be constantly running on a hamster wheel doesn’t make you a whimp
the day after I get my trust fund, I'm outta here.
It doesn't matter how hard you work, or if you find a way to increase productivity, all benefit goes upwards to people who are already rich. It truly blows my mind that people don't realize this.
Before trickle down economics, money earned or even printed turned over many more times within the country before ending up in a few concentrated hands; in the last 40 years a good chunks of it gets off shored into tax havens at the tax payers expense and most of it will never be reinvested or spent in the country where it came from. This didn’t happen when there was a tax system that had high taxes on the top marginal brackets that coerced corporations and the rich to reinvest in their country and businesses. Also with the incentive of the rich reinvesting in their businesses created an environment for employees to obtain enough tax deductions to decrease their tax burden; now most of the tax burden is on the middle class salaried and hourly workers; not on executive payroll.
If you look at it that way I guess everything goes up. But if you own a farm man, that's the key. Everything you do helps everyone not just one person and society as a whole depends on you to feed them not just the rich. Why do people concern themselves with the rich so much? there gonna die and be the same as the rest of us so what's the point.
@@robwhite3241 I find farmers are undervalued in society.
Use money to buy the stock...That makes you to become shareholder and you will have more money because you earn the income of the company....
Whenever I visited the states it felt like the country was under some cult influence. Minimal news from outside and everyone celebrating the wrong ideals. Horses don’t get carrots, only sticks.
capitalism is 100% a cult yeah.
This comment just reminds me of Animal Farm. I read it in Year 9 and Boxer still breaks my heart to this day... (I'm not American but) to all my fellow working-class brothers and sisters out there, please don't become like Boxer. That's just too sad.
"Everyone in America should be fed foreign news and celebrate the ideals we tell them to - or else they are a cult that gets the stick!" - tolerant, foreign socialists
@@chownful You're pretty good at strawmanning my dude
@@chownful if you've ever been in America you know that the people here are not educated in the truth
I’m American now living in the UK. I had the American work mentality when I moved here and everyone thought I was crazy. I felt so guilty taking any of my 25 paid vacations days a year. I would log into my work email whilst on vacation and got told off for it. I got pregnant and only took 6 months of my 9 months paid maternity leave. I eventually calmed down my workaholic tendencies and honestly I feel more balanced. I enjoy my time with my son and husband. We can plan vacations abroad 2-3 times a year and I’m able to shut off as soon as I leave work. Don’t even get me started on healthcare.
Mind if I ask what your profession is? I’m looking at maybe moving over there in a few years. :)
Glad you landed on your feet. You show that there is an alternative.
@@Marine5481 at the moment I’m an assistant accountant. I’m studying to get my accounting qualification here. I didn’t move here for work though. I married a British citizen. Before getting married we took a while deciding whether to settle in the US or the UK. To be honest it would have been a lot easier and cheaper getting my husband a green card for the US rather than going though the UK spouse visa process but we ended up deciding on the UK due to overall price of living and quality of life.
@@ronalynharris686 sounds like it was a good choice !!
@@ronalynharris686 And consider that the ratio price of living : quality of life of the UK is considered awful in Western Continental Europe. :)
To me it all comes down to the two most important things in life, time and money. Everyone can choose how much money they wanna accumulate but no one get to choose how much time we get in this life. I too was stuck in this American dream, working 70 hrs a week just to keep a mortgage and every other monthly expenses that came with having a family, I realized I wasn’t physically tired but worse I was emotionally drained . It was if I had no soul in me, I turned to alcohol as an outlet drinking most nights just to fall asleep. Thank god that I now got out of that toxic lifestyle of chasing more and more money, My income has never been this low since I remember (I don’t spend much nowadays) yet I’ve never felt so alive. Don’t let that American Dream suck the life out of you, everyday is a blessing when you realize that time is the most important thing we have to live a truly happy healthy life.
I choose to have a life balance and not overwork myself to death for anybody or anything I work part time and proud of it fuck full time
I think you are a very smart person (no sarcasm) 👍
Usa IS pos
Beautifully made. I remember an American woman who once said that the American dream is an excellent ploy to make Americans work hard. The promise of a comfortable life is the lure. It may come to some Americans, and not to others. The mistake Americans make is to assume it will come inevitably, long as they have worked hard. And the wealthy keep laughing.
"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." -George Carlin
True statement but i literally see this everywhere on yt lol
When you think about it. This quote hits like a platinum brick from a railgun.
Not true, for people from poverty (like my family) the american dream is a reality. Y’all are just to privileged to see it
RIP, Mr. Carlin
George isn't dead, he just knew shit will get even worse and left
The American ethos can be summarized like this "Everybody believes that they are a millionaire down on his luck."
Even millionaires believe this when they lose a little.
"temporarily embarrassed millionaires"
A millionaire who lost all their wealth paying for an ambulance ride
a wholesale delusion.
Literally no american believes this
To all the people in this thread who believe in changing our broken work system I stand with all of you! The only people living the American Dream are ruthless CEOs
Even when I take a day off, I still feel guilty about it. You hit the nail on the head.
People in this country has a right to have a life balance and have a life outside of work nobody needs to be guilty I don't
ahhh poor thing.
Happiness is a state of mind, but is hard to be happy on an empty stomach
Message! 💯
I agree
That depends. When I’m fasting I make sure I’m busy - usually gardening. I can go a day or two without feeling hungry when I’m working in my garden. The same goes for any creative activity, for me. I lost a stone a few years back when I wrote a book. I was insomniac as well, so going without regular food and sleep. I felt physically fit and very happy.
This statement implies that having basic needs= happiness. It does not. It also implies that the playing field is even from which people can derive their basic needs from is even. Which it is not.
Well if hunt or grow food if you don’t have then trade or bargain. It hard to keep happiness or keep in one state of mind when everyone doubts. Bet you doubt your self when thing get tougher no helping ya.
In addition to the table of paid vacation: In Germany, the mentioned 20 days of vacation is the minimum by law. In reality most people have 25 to 30 days of vacation. The concept of sick days does not exist. If you are sick then you are sick, no matter how often. Though, after 6 weeks of sickness in a row your payment will be stopped and replaced by a reduced payment by the health insurence. But sickness will not ruin anybody.
@@user-nf9xc7ww7m I read about a guy who worked as a waiter earning about 30 dollars per day. He got sick and had to decide: go to the doctor and pay 70 Dollars just for the visit or earn 30 dollars. Guess what he did? It's hard to believe that Americans take their situation for granted and even call universal health care "socialist" while their system actively kills them because they cannot afford proper treatment.
@@klotz__ Yuck! 🦠 I don't want my food served by a sick person. Guees I will keep that in mind before I go to an us-american restaurant next time.
@@user-nf9xc7ww7m Yeah that's crazy. I've noticed those instances where corporate greed shoots itself in the foot. Like how many companies micromanage employees and make them feel like crap, but then expect them to want to stay and do a more efficient job.
Klotz yp Yeah same where I live, you can earn more holiday time from your overtime so then the 5 week entitled holiday increases
Also the 10 paid holiday ("Feiertage") are only the national ones (New Years day, 2 days easter, Christmas 2 days, Reunification day and so on). There are multiple others locally, usually on state level. It ranges from 9 (the number I found, most likely there difference comes from counting or not counting holidays on sundays (easter sunday, Pentecost sunday) minimum to 14 in the city of Augsburg in Bavaria. Rest Bavaria has 13 and is highest. This adds to the 20 days minimal payed vacation days. But more is common (20 - 30) as already stated.
My Dad was one of the lucky few who got holidays off, and we were able to take vacations. Though he always had to replay to work emails and calls most of the time. I was maybe 13 when I was first told someone couldn’t come over on Christmas or Thanksgiving because they had to work. As a kid I was horrified that they had to work and didn’t get to be with their friends/family and was told, “That’s just the way it is.” And gradually grew so scared about having to work because the more I learned the more miserable it seemed. I was so confused as to why people did jobs that they hated and didn’t spend time with people or doing hobbies. Glad to know that horror was valid...and not just me going crazy.
It's time for the slave system to go I hate this country time to make paid vacations mandatory bonuses less hours being worked
@@Nick84525 Yup
Sad that is younger generations are seeing at as it is and our parents have become numb to this. Every time a bring it up it gets political and divisive. They say, “if you don’t like this country, leave,” which is what I plan to do. I can’t even afford healthcare, and if I did, my heart will hyperventilate from the bill I will receive from a simple checkup. We have bunch of warmongerers that believe your child is fit to die in a war but want to increase the voting age because they think we shouldn’t have a voice in the problems we have today. Targeting children is their main objective because they see them as robots to increase their profits, just like us.They like to practice religion, values and morals but peace is something that’s not worth of a conversation. Because we are “anti-capitalists.” Big time businesses profit off not only war but world-wide pandemics and diseases. They basically have us by the nuts at this point, or they’ve always have.
Imagine a government working to improve people’s lives.
I can't....no matter how hard I try...the concept is literally unimaginable
How about you improve your own life and stop blaming your failures on everyone else. Get off of KZhead and start aupporting yourself. That, or move to Venezuela.
"Filthy Communism" in the eyes of the American's
@@lightyagami1058 bruh. You missed the point lol
Did you just mention CCP? 800mil lifted from poverty.
"USA is not a nation, it's an Industrial Complex" people work, eat, sleep and repeat. with zero Social, Cultural, family values throughout the country.
YES INDEED. It's a toxic cycle that Americans love. If it involves standing up it's out the comfort zone
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What do you mean, they have a bunch of cultural such as gun culture toxic culture racist culture schools shooting culture warlike culture... silly boy
yall obviusly have never been to asia, the average work hours there are almost 12 hours a day, with less than 2 weeks of leave
@@spacepeing9936 And yet the Us is the largest multicultural society on the planet and thousands of people walk on foot across multiple countries just to enter that "gun culture toxic culture racist culture schools shooting culture warlike culture" Now tell us, what country are you from? i am sure I can list off all the horrible shit that goes on in your country then we can all watch you deflect and make excuses while blaming the US in the same breath.
Just to be clear overworking doesn't mean more productive automatically. Imho the least productive colleagues I worked were the Americans, and I worked with a lot of different countries. Probably they would be more productive if they had more rest, better social laws and security, more vacation and better financial motivation.
You're amazing man thank you so much for your hard work. Your videos are amazing and this one in particular really resonates with me. thank you
Last time I was this early, my boss made me stay late.
Gold
up you go
Nice
“My Boss arrived at work in a brand new Ferrari. I told him: “Wow that’s a nice car”. He replied: “If you work hard, put all your hours in, and strive for 'Excellence', I'll get another one next year”.”
At least he he has humour. I hope he was joking..
@@farkaslukrecia he was joking but at the same time it's the truth
Sad but true
The Best joke are those who uncapsulate the truth.
There’s another punchline: “If you work hard, put all your hours in, and save all your money, you still couldn’t afford the tires on this car.”
Being a KZheadr is one of the best jobs you can have. The fact that you haven’t forgotten about those of us who have to work our lives away is very appreciated.
Great video! You just got a new subscriber. I've never thought about how destructive the ideology of working to accumulate more and more wealth is.
It's absolutely soul crushing what this is doing to us and how this affects our kids. Even if we corrected this now the damaging effects would last for generations
You had a good start with the New Deal and up until the seventies, but too bad your country is just so big, that it happened to have the kind of super rich people with enough money and power to bend the political system to their will. And that they did.
Socialism is the way forward
Like krogan had the genophage
Soul crushing is the feature, not the bug. Corporations and the wealthy are not nice, benevolent people. They are exploiteers and cartels that will abuse and take advantage of us as much as we will let them. The more obsessed and consumed with work we are, the less free we are to be happy and pursue a better life.
@@FINNSTIGAT0R It is not fault of the super rich. The American constitution allows certain kinds of corruption, and the rich just made use of these opportunities to further their own interest. Fix the constitution, weed out corruption, and there is again hope for the USA. #represent.us is doing a good job working towards these goals.
No amount of money is enough when a hospital bills come.
Yeah, both my parents work and have college degrees, yet my mom getting a mild form of cancer and having surgery to remove it (even before chemo) was enough to ruin us without insurance .
Litterly almost every country: wait so u pay for hospital bills????
Don't be ridiculous, everyone in every country pays medical bills, just with a few 0 less🤷♂️
I broke my ankle joint in America. I had to have two pins put into my ankle, and it cost me $23,000 dollars. I had to go through Swiss industrial insurance, and the most expensive country in Europe refused to pay four times their normal rate for such an operation. Luckily, I was bright enough to take out additional insurance, so all's well that ends well. The question American's have to ask themselves, is why they allow themselves to be so exploited.
Can thank Medicare and free healthcare for that
The idea of actually getting vacation days sounds so amazing I want to cry. I get a week, and it’s so difficult to actually use, that it’s encouraged to just not and get an extra chunk of change instead. There’s no time. Never time. And if there was, I probably couldn’t afford it anyway. I want to get out here, but I don’t know how.
good. leave. wimp
I hate usa
People who brag about how many hours they clocked for a soulless corporation like it's the only noteworthy thing in their life are kinda pathetic, really.
Some economic slaves are oblivious to the fact they are and get crumbs in the big picture.
Walmart is definitely a soulless corporation and so is Amazon.
Middle finger to corporations corporate America and shareholders
As a young American, the one thing I look forward to the most is when I can finish college and save up enough money to leave this country.
Clive Newby As someone who is in high school, I can't look forward to much. My goal is to get scholarships because college is so unnecessarily expensive, and with the ongoing pandemic, it doesn't look possible. I want people to just think about others for a second. I have worked so hard, getting all A's in school, yet I'm still worried, because honestly--it doesn't matter how hard you work. The US economy isn't made for anyone in the middle class and lower. I know this because I am in the middle class.
Be careful with student debt! Its the only type of debt that you CANNOT remove in bankruptcy. Go to community college first to finish general courses, then go get a good ROI degree from a 4 year.
R Quan that's my plan! thank you for telling me what the education system didn't 😂💗
@@hannah1850 That the beauty of the internet! Teach yourself what the education failed to teach you for free!
@@hannah1850 if you really want to go to uni and are worried about debt I'd suggest looking at international options. The UK charges double price for international non European students but that's still cheaper than a lot of US unis, even without British loan options (which are pretty forgiving). Some places like Germany, Norway, and Sweden have costs low enough that you can cover them working part time, or even with pocket money, if need be. Consider all your options if you can
It's terrifying to see how much of society has been trained to view this as a natural state of being.
My HS literally ingrained in me that college leads to life success so effectively that when I graduated from college, family/friends were crying and congratulating me and all these things and I literally thought to myself "this isn't special, this is what I'm supposed to do."
I began to see this attitude in the early '80's and it was scary even then.
@@vincegonzalez2171 when I got my BA and my family was all excited, the only thought that’s going through my head is “I’m going to die”.
@Dex Dextor South Africa even worse
@@Name-dv4qu Well, not necessarily. Just because humans started out that way doesn't mean that's the only way we can be normal or natural. Species evolve.
The new american dream is to have a European life
I hate being trapped in the United States. 😭
People are giving their time, their life for scraps to live off of. When the rich company owners earn their wealth from underpaid workers. If that doesn't sound dystopian then I don't know.
Robert Reich says we are living through the second gilded age, with about the same disparities. Hopefully we will usher in a new age of equity and Egalitarianism! Work to live, not live to work.🌄
@@chuckkottke believe me interventionism doesn't work, capitalism may not be perfect, but it's the best we have
@@jackdanila9893 it work perfectly like how health care business we had some might leisurely go through liposuction in prime work hours while others have to sell his health to keep out his house from mortgage which no different from slavery capitalism is works if there's inequality on it, u gain more for every other people losses
People are taught to brag about working 70 hours a week. You shouldn't be working that much, let alone to make ends meet...
I only "brag" about working such hours if I am putting away cash for a project - once I have the cash to finance the project, the 60-70 hr work weeks cease.
meowpower I don’t enjoy working the hours, but I need to money to buy assets to leave the working class behind.
If there’s 24 hours a day and you work 60% of it and sleep the rest, why the f would your project even be worth it? You’re not even living.. And realistically, who in this country can say, “well once I’m done making the money I can shrink my own work schedule and not work”. Stop.
@@onefortrees Actually, that is my plan - once I achieved the necessary investment capital I will dial back my hours and then stop working altogether.
For a while I worked those hours to make money quickly for a house. The time value of the money made sense. I worked a lot while paying rent then when I had a comfortable amount saved to buy the house and stop paying rent I took a job with less hours. That’s when I worked 13 ten hour days with one day off. Now I work five 8 hour days and have much more time to do the things I enjoy. Most people don’t understand that there is a time value to money. Though I will also admit that in my industry (construction) work comes in waves. Sometimes the going is great and you work more. But you do that to save for the times when work is very slow or non existent so you can keep the lifestyle that you desire.
This channel is so amazing. Finally somebody gets it.
Videos like that always reminds me how grateful I am to live in the heart of Europe. Where it's normal to take vacations and the employer even encourage you to stay at home when you are sick to get well soon.
The united slaves of America is a sick country
I used to work for a company in Montreal (Québec) that had an important partnership with NY and, you guys, you are INTENSE. This American girl spent three weeks at our office, and she proudly said she would stay in the office until 2 a.m. just to get the project/ do a certain transfer on time instead of waiting the next morning like a regular person (or just tell the client that we were humans beings getting good night sleep at 2 a.m., and postpone the thing.). For her it was perfectly normal, and she looked at us as if we were lazy for going out for beers after work and getting a life. All my American contacts were like that, to different levels, but from our perspective they were always "difficult" to work with because they did not have limits or boundaries with work...I was regularly receiving emails at insane hours from people working in the same time zone as I was, and one girl was impressed that we were NOT doing 12-hour days. In a way it was sad.
They're so proud of it, without realising it's a lifestyle of diminishing returns, and a good balance is not only healthier, but also more productive in many areas!
yeah, skipping lunch to get stuff done on the clock when lunch was unpaid 30 minutes is pretty normal shit. sleep schedule was messed up enough that i had to leave work so i wouldn't collapse on the floor like i did one time. (closing at 10 and needing to be back at 5 am to clock in next day, etc) i still didn't see it as overworked, just me mismanaging my life and job. plenty of friends on the job had it a lot worse than me, seeing friends work 2 jobs for 70-80 hours a week with no health benefits and still doing volunteer work. my own grandfather working til he was in his 80s before he passed. idk there is a source of pride in work well done. but yeah, there needs to be something done so people aren't stuck in a rut and being miserable.
its the Hussle culture here work yourself to death know so you can have it better down the road and companies expect you to exist Soley to file their papers or mop there floors, they don't see you as human, they see you as a number on a spread sheet
Let me tell you, I worked a graveyard shift for a year 4 days 10 hours. When I tell you I was losing my sanity, weight, sleep, and got physically sick it sucks in America. They'll penalize you for being sick and leaving early, have unrealistic expectations and horrible working conditions (poor human resources, bare minimum equipment, etc.) I want out of corporate America's hustle culture. I'm only 30 and feel so depressed about my future.
In 1985, a US woman on her honey moon also in Montréal, managed to get a temp position at our branch ( financial institution ). She was there 2 days . When she left, I was joking that it was a good thing she was going home because the entire office was about to get sent home for lack of work to do...
When living in the US, I had friends who gave birth on a Wednesday evening and went back to class teaching Monday in the AM.
The worst part is that, as someone living in the US, I'm so used to seeing that, it doesn't even shock me. Everyone sees that as completely normal and okay.
Nothing wrong with that.
@ Chuka Nweze - Yeah there is! 😂
if u dont work, u lose your job lol
Even as an American it fuck up
The worst part of overwork is that it prevents people from doing actual meaningful creative work because of having to spend all their time doing low paying menial work just to keep a roof over their heads.
It also can cause health issues leading to disabilities.
Almost everyone in the United States 🇺🇸 are miserable and unhappy
That's my current situation. Born into poverty, spent ten years self-funding my college education and working 60+ hours/week to do the whole 'bootstrap' thing. Now, I'm 50 with three autoimmune disorders, barely able to work. They used me up and spit me out when I wasn't useful anymore.@@rps1689
I just came back from a trip to the US and I understand now why there are so many homeless people. If that was the system I had to work in just to survive, how much harder could homelessness be? Your either an addition to homelessness statistic or an addition to unhappiness statistic
When i was little my dad told me that work and a job is who you were in life. Fast forward to 20y/o, Got told to drop out by college professors, got fired multiple times, couldnt hold down a job, severe depression, suicidal thoughts. It took me a very long time to realizethat work and my jobs dont define me. Now i paint art in my free time and i feel more liberated just by that.
thankfully a lot of that old propaganda is disappearing with the older generations. The country is completely different than when our grandparents grew up
I am happy to hear that for you. A lot of people go through the same thing, but it takes some time to recognize what it is coming from and connect the dots. It is a shame we have to go to our wits end and to be forced to understand, only then, what is happening. It's good to make the connection, but wish it didn't take that much grief to get there.
Thank God you did friend.😎🤘
The dilemma of being a Native American and not wanting to leave the land of your ancestors but also wanting a better life for yourself and children
Trust me you’ll be found the right thing. Look at Europe, Canada, all of Australia and some Africa.
That's bullshit. You shouldn't have to make that decision at all.
Gods i hope you and your family are gonna be okay. Im ashamed of how native people are treated, especially with the subject at hand being true.
There is an «old wind» blowing now. Take a listen to Aurora, THE SEED. A Norwegian girl is preaching the belief Native americans (and all people) once had. Maybe its time for you to become a preacher ?
@earth ocean not everyone who has children has wealth. Go ask a single parent how much wealth they have, working two jobs just to make ends meet.
I just want to say that while I don't agree with a lot of the sentiment in this video, I do appreciate hearing your perspective, especially done in a manner that is very high quality.
Thank you for noting the bootstraps irony. Even before I caught the hypocrisy in how the statement "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" has been redefined from its original meaning, I often retorted "That's a hard thing to do for anyone who can't afford boots."
Also, if the average American isn't working constantly, their debts would cause them to lose everything almost overnight.
Debt is the expectation by the lender that the debtor will make more tomorrow than they did yesterday. Our economy is propped up by that false promise and the debt bubble will eventually collapse. Capitalism is already on life support. Capitalism has already failed.
The only way to not work as much is to not have any debt
The debt of the many is the wealth of the few. No debt no wealth.
This is why American pride confuses me.
Pride of being a slave to the workforce i guess, what an irony
Pride because the situation is so embarrassing bad, that people refuse to admit it is real, people refuse to admit that they have been cheated, that they paid taxes for years and years and got nothing in return.
@@fionafiona1146 sounds great! What education are you enrolled in?
Because schools teach way too much bullshit.
@@fionafiona1146 A degree in Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology. Wow, that sounds like a pivotal world class education with great prospects of solving the problems of humanity. Me, I always had this ordinary dream of being a dentist and fix peoples annoyances with their dental problems.
The system was designed to keep you from breaking free. But the thing is by breaking free you usually become more successful when you're not afraid to take the risk. Break the cycle
Yes it needs to be destroyed
Growing up in poverty, I bought into the propaganda that if I got a college education and worked a lot of hours (65/week), that I would somehow reach the hallowed streets of the middle class. I did, for about 3 years, then collapsed in total burnout, only to rapidly slide back into poverty at age 50, with no retirement savings and a chronic autoimmune disorder that's left me physically and mentally disabled. Thanks, capitalism!
"You're a piece of equipment to them" That hurt my soul
@@WindofChange2023 Personal relationships are not comparable in that way to business relationships. Someone making decisions for a business is alienated from the effects those decisions have on the people under them. They will often never personally know the people they lay off or the struggles of the workers they underpay. But people in actual relationships don't generally like to hurt each other and will get joy from others' joy. Just because the part of your brain that feels empathy is broken doesn't mean everyone else is the same. And fuck Ayn Rand, her philosophy is grotesque.
reflect on the term “human resources”
@@WindofChange2023 Mate you define every relationship a human can have as selfish in nature. What would you describe as having no empathy? I mean you could just say you are selfish, never had actual friends or mental problems but this view on life is sad.
@@WindofChange2023 No it is a sad view and doesnt speak for you as a person. Hope you get better mate
@@WindofChange2023 You dont have a point tho. You said you see yourself as a selfish person and all your relationships are fueled by it. I dont and most people probably wouldnt agree to this. Can it be part? Sure but you said its almost the sole driving force or at least thats how I understood it. And if you think me pitting you is insulting then maybe think over your definition that everything is driven by greed and selfishness instead of playing some weird kind of victimcard. And by the way you just saying "what I say is true" doesnt make it the truth especially when youre talking about social constructs and feelings that are subjective af.
Second thought 2017: "Is time travel possible?" Second thought 2020: *hey how about we seize the means of production*
Second thought 2022: time to travel back to stop boomers from ruining everything 😎
Honestly i get why tho, u cant sit still with the shit thats going on
Second thought 2022 Good ending: What would have happened if the proletariat didnt rise?
I feel like that's unfair to the message of this video. It's about changing the American working culture away from trying to overwork yourself and deifying being rich and stuff like that and try to get to a point where we can all value different things than just how much money we have. It's true that this can only be achieved through getting some actual laws to protect the common workers from predatory practices of companies, but that's a far more sophisticated idea than just seizing the means of production. It's about changing what we all think is important and what we think is right.
Ahh yes. The communist allegation when someone talks about the US in a non-glorifying way. I would tell you to go back to school and learn about actual communism, but I assume that’s where you all learn this sh*t.
This video hits some nails on the head. Thank you.
A few months ago, after my jobs term ended and I had a good week before school started up again, I had nothing to do for a good week or so. The problem was that, while I had video games I wanted to play, books I wanted to read and shows I wanted to watch, I couldn’t because I was feeling so incredibly sick I could barely get out of bed. Like, diarrhea, vomiting and dizziness kind of sick. After a while of dealing with it and it not getting better, my mom pulled me aside and explained that I must be just like her; she makes herself physically sick when she’s not being productive. Every single day of my life up until that week I had gotten up at 8 at the latest and had always had something planned for the day up until that week. No joke, I have literally never spent an entire day laying down and doing nothing all day. Low abs behold apparently this is because my mother makes herself physically sick when she’s not working on something, so she has made us get up and do at least something every day for my entire life. As we discovered that week, I am the exact same. After we talked I decided to reorganize my shelves and shampoo my carpet and-would you believe it- I started to feel a bit better. Mom started making sure I get up every day before 8 and Made sure I had something to do and-would you believe it- I’m better. The harsh reality is that we live in a world in which we are told to feel ashamed and sick if we ever take even two seconds to ourself- and my condition is living proof of that. My own doctor confirmed this by the way. It’s an endless cycle that creates people like me and my mother, and I don’t even know what to do about it.
That’s so sad that it’s so psychologically programmed into your DNA. So sorry!
Why do we treat companies more respectfully than actual human beings?
Because the humans who ran the first ones were insane
Cause Humans aren't designed to make money. Companies are
@@MyOwnLittleRepublic2 so if humans aren't designed like that why do we give companies human status
@@jamesbyrne9312 Cause they're made up of people who want to make more and more money, and they contribute to politicians and judges election campaigns. If you want to get real mad, look into Citizens United.
@@MyOwnLittleRepublic2 yeah it's all true. Terrible
I’m an American. And I’m just so tired.
Me too but im not american!
You have my sympathy. Sincerely.
You are so fortunate for being an American, i live in a thirdworld economy on the otherside of the planet, it takes me 5 years of work to buy myself the cheapest iphone, we only get law mandated paid leave of 7 days a year and i find hillarious that some Americans call themeselves poor yet they can eat three times a day,
@@vancelouiegarcia9472 America is supposedly a "first world country" yet has living standards as bad as a third world country.
Texan here: same bro, same
A few years ago I took a warehouse job for Bass Pro/Cabela's. It wasn't something that I really wanted to do, but I didn't have many choices at the time. I started in November, so it was the busy Christmas season right off the bat. We did 12 hour shifts. Normally it was supposed to be 3 days a week, but since it was "busy" season they made us work almost every single day. I had 2 days off during the month of December. It got to a point where I didn't even feel like a person anymore. I was so incredibly physically tired that I could barely get out of the car, into my house, and up to my bed when I was done. My feet were covered in blisters from being on them all day on concrete floors. My hands started to crack and peel from handling so many boxes in cold trailers. I bounced as soon as I found something else. Never again will I work that kind of schedule. Never again will I work for such a shitty company with shitty people and no regard for safety, health, or well-being. Fuck that.
I’m genuinely curious as to how work places in America are going to change within the next decade or so. More and more people (especially the younger generations) are realizing that many jobs value profit over their workers and their lives outside of it, and because of this loyalty has decreased which is going to significantly affect companies over time. Depending on the company most will see a much higher turn over rate and a decrease in workers to perform task if the current situation progresses with paying people very little with impossible expectations.
The average hourly worker at my company stays 6 months. The average salary worker at my company stays 10 years. The salaried folk are at the mercy of the hourly folks. The salaried folk are also the 20% who did 80% of the work when they were hourly. It’s very difficult to depend on others in this environment. As salary I now get to work extra hours unpaid when an hourly person decides they don’t feel like having their job anymore. It’s hard.
"American dream". Nightmares are dreams too
The American nightmare
It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. George Carlin
Word!
European here - 2 years paid maternity leave per child, monthly dividends per child once they start going to school, 1 month paid vacations per year, up to 6 months of paid sick leaves, 14 days of paid paternity leave. No bragging, but common sense.
Hi, please preemptively explain taxation to the American conservatives that might be pulling their hair out while asking “but who is going to pay for it?!”
Владимир Предоев It isn’t common sense at all. Since the days of robber barons and wealthy, greedy people like our current president’s father, workers are just tools to be used to generate more money. The less workers get, the more these people accumulate. I was told by a boss that no matter what I did, I would never be able to make more money. This was at a company that gave no cost of living increases, raises or bonuses ... ever. My friend’s father passed away. At the time, a lot of family could not come to his funeral so they had a memorial service at a later date. My friend was docked a vacation day for taking off to go to the service - she was told she was only allowed two bereavement days and she had had to take an extra day. How much more heartless could they be? My boss gave us a questionnaire asking, “What can the company do, BESIDES MORE MONEY, to make you happier at work?” My answer was “Nothing. I have a life. I have bills to pay. I have to save for retirement. That all takes money.” Are they really that stupid?!! My boss also asked us to work 4 extra hours a day WITHOUT PAY so we could get projects done. I told her that in essence, that would reduce my salary which was already way under the average for my field. I called the Labor Board in my state and was told that I could be fired if I didn’t work the extra hours. In other words, since my profession does not have a union, I had no protection from my unscrupulous employers who didn’t care if I had less time with my family and to live my life. We all know this is wrong but we also have to pay bills. My actual life has consisted of 104 weekend days plus 10 vacation days for 40 years. Amazing how your life speeds by when you just live for weekends and that paltry amount of vacation time. One company that employed me was headquartered in Finland. The U.S. employees got 2 weeks vacation. The Finns got 1 month. Same company.
The UK definitely has its shortcomings, but I’m so glad my parents chose to immigrate here rather than the US! I literally just came from an induction from a retail job and one of the things that was mentioned was ‘paid holiday’. Which we get on a fixed term contract of 6 weeks. Deadass. To think that US doesn’t offer it at all is crazy! If it wasn’t for the paid leave/ holiday I wouldn’t have any time whatsoever with my parents (who work their asses of for me and my siblings!)
Yea it is weirdly bad here. And to think my whole life I thought the way we live here was the norm. US propaganda is real and frightening
As a regularly pond-crossing Brit with a ton of treasured American friends, it horrifies me how the US treats its workers. Having to do without secure healthcare, a decent amount of leave, while often being treated like crap by employers, rinsed by grocery prices and subjected to major housing security. It feels like there are so few rights people can depend on. I don’t know how anyone (except those exploiting everyone else) is avoiding a nervous breakdown.
This type of video is just the best content someone could make right now
I would love to subtitle it in spanish and italian so that more people can watch it, I just don't know how
@@filippoardizzone8216 _"I would love to subtitle it in spanish and italian so that more people can watch it, I just don't know how"_ You can add subtitles if you a) are working on a computer not a phone, b) you click on the settings "wheel" on the video and then on subtitles, then on "add subtitles/cc" I highly recommend writing the subtitles in an extra file, .txt is already enough. You write them like this (copying from a subtitle file I made once): 1 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:05,800 The paradox here is: How can you know all this and still do it? 2 00:00:06,001 --> 00:00:09,600 This is the cynical functioning of ideology. 3 00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:14,500 They’re never what they appear to be: cynical brutal delinquents. 4 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:20,800 They always have a tiny private dream. This dream can be many things. 5 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,100 It can even be something quite ordinary. ... and so on Good luck with that project! You should also check out the videos of Mexie, halim alrah and Viki 1999
@@LibertarianLeninistRants Thank you very much for your help, I'll try it as fast as I get home
That and Minecraft lets playa
"What is my purpose?" "You pass butter" "...Oh my god."
Hahahahaha love this
I get this reference, and I feel it.
thank you Ricky and Morty
Just saw this episode yesterday lmao
"Yeah, welcome to the club, pal"
Awesome work as always! Thank you.
I was a workaholic. Had my own farm that I ran by myself, worked 14+ hours a day on two properties for over 14 years. Now I am 35 years old and realize what I had been working for, a new family, to feed my family, and friends wasn't happening, and now my lease is up and I have to move and start over, so I am liquidating it and taking the time to self educate so I can move into a different career so I can garden/grow mushrooms as a hobby I enjoy
"They call it the american dream because you have to be asleep to see it"
RIP George Carlin
AxxL simp.
"asleep to *believe* it"
My parents living in the US: "Why did you move out of the US back to South Africa and now to Europe??" Me:
You moved out of South Africa for Europe because of political instability I assume?
@@webwizes5620 No because dual citizenship and losing job due to Covid. Plus better oppurtunities
@@abdullahtshabal9522 oh I see, nobody really enforces dual citizenship laws here, but the job market was terrible pre corona so I mean not a bad decision to leave
Did the right thing
Abdullah Tshabal I have been looking to get dual citizenship. What do I need to get started if you don’t mind me asking.
I’m called lazy by capitalist enthusiasts. Am I lazy for understanding that life is about more than work?💀
I hope things get better in the us! And I hope things get better in my country too. I live in sweden, we have it good here, doesnt mean we should accept that as the ultimate end of things. 40h work weeks are still too long. 5weeks vacation is still too short. Its a start, but shouldnt be the end. :)
I never even heard of a 5 week vacation. What does that look like?
"it´s called the american dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it" -George Carlin
All hail the master Carlin!🙇
Figured I would see that quote somewhere in here.
@@RickJW-OSM Yes, I also scrolled down w/ the intention of finding the Carlin quote as well. LOL
@KZhead Censors anybody in this world has a right to be rich, as long as they do not harm anyone else in the process of doing so. Your judgement is very I'll informed my friend.
@KZhead Censors hahahahahah, they're working nonstop for long hours everyday, most of the workers have nervous breakdowns, because they can't handle it, life is supposed to be easier, not a routine of meaningless errands
Boomers: millennials and gen z are so lazy! Stop asking for handouts! Millennials and Gen Z: please I just want to see my children
@James Rocket the oldest gen z are 25. Some are beginning to have families.
@@kenkad224735 I'm 25 and I'm a millennial. Don't want to be labelled as the mockery gen z has become lol
@Romulo Perez Tomas if it didn't matter, you wouldn't have commented bud haha
@@zephyr2792 cope
@@boxingfrog lemme be a millennial plis
The system is rigged, and a lot of people like it that way. Incredible.
yea. the politicians like it.
Cogent and beautifully written; thank you.
I didn’t even think about how this related to the pandemic and why people want to get back to work so bad🤦🏾♂️
xtropix People don’t want to become homeless. But going back to work isn’t the solution to our problem. We should really be demanding rent freezes or forgiveness like some other countries have implemented.
CONDITIONING
and affordable housing
loverrlee Exactly! However, when you bring any idea up the argument goes the "my rights, my freedom, taxes" and other things of the sort. It's a shame.
maybe because not everyone finds sitting on their asses mentally stimulating?
Also, don't let the motivational speakers off the hook. They're modern day plantation preachers.
The joke at one factory where I worked was, "Keep your nose to the grindstone. That's a sure way to grind your nose off (for the boss!)".
Preach!!!
To me, Jordan Peterson is preacher for capitalism. I can understand why everyone buys into his words. Greetings from Norway.
@@ellengran6814 He's a wordsmith. He's able to pack unfair, distressing and often times sad concepts into neat, easily understandable and honestly thought provoking packages. That doesn't excuse him from some of his shitty takes though.
Chris Hooten t is a great point. Never thought of it like that but it’s facts.
When are people going to realize that working harder doesn't make you richer
Exactly boomers are too stupid to realize that fact
You have the best tool ever invented and you squander it. You have the human mind and access to the internet to access whatever you would like to learn about and develop skills to make the world you want to see. Lead by acting and make your passion your career. I love building infrastructure because I feel accomplishment knowing that things I have built will stand the test of time.
I worked a night shift 5 years back as a grocery clerk, i had quickly learned that i cannot sleep during no matter what. This went on for 10 months until compounding sleep deprivation and substance abuse caused me to have a psychotic break. This video brought back those sickening feelings of being a wage slave, living only to work, try to sleep on a time frame whilst thinking about work and how i'll feel if i don't sleep to the point where i would hear voices and have terrifying delusions. I've since quit and slowly gotten better over the last five years but any job i get i experience the same feelings all over again to a lesser extent.
Wow, really hope you find a work place someday that makes you feel relaxed and happy. You'd love Canada's rural towns, pace of life is slow here and you can do any menial job without the stress of the city. We lack labor so people even get to choose their employers.
Talk about American life expectancy and happiness levels going down
Did you consider or is there any chance that you could leave America permanently? I´m sorry if that´s a stupid thought but I´m german and after all I´ve heard about the american system in Secont Thoughts videos I just can´t imagine a way to live a happy and healthy live in the USA if you don´t have rich parents or shamelessly abuse people. What is the biggest thing that stops americans from leaving the country once they somehow find out how abusive their system really is?
The fact that grocery stores are open at night is sick by itself. No one really needs to shop groceries at 2am.
Klotz yes we do. I work night shift at a casino and I like being able to go to the grocery store early in the morning. When they changed their hours to no longer be 24 hours it really fucked up my schedule. I get delivery now because it’s an inconvenience to go in the middle of the day. And I actually enjoy night shift. It’s much more quiet.
When I signed my first work contract as an advisory consultant, back in Belgium, the section on paid holidays, sick leaves, days off due to specific events (wedding, death of a pet, etc.), etc. was over 20 pages long. I had between 6 to 8 weeks paid vacation per year. Hell, I even had 5 paid workdays a year that I could take without even stating a reason. I could take up to 12 weeks of parental leave if I had a child (again, paid parental leave). To find out that in the US you don’t even have mandatory paid vacation days blows my mind. I just can’t believe it.
paid vacation is one thing.... imagine having your employer tell you... you can't be sick you have already used your 7!!!! (that's the US average) sick days and then imagine you're working as a server making a whole $2.13/hour
Wait you get days off for death of a pet?? When my 12 yo heart dog died I had to call in sick then go into work the next days because if you call in more than one day you must have a doctor note. :(
When you've lived in a sane society for all your life you'll learn to take the sanity for granted, to the point that you can't imagine living in an insane one. I get the "I can't believe it" reaction from Europeans all the time when I explain how American health care works. They usually know America has no public health care system and that a lot of people get health insurance, but they always believe health insurance means opting in a European style system, that you pay for your insurance and that covers everything when you need medical care. When I explain that no, it isn't that simple, your insurance doesn't cover everything and even for stuff it does cover you'll probably end up paying through your nose, and that middle-class people with health insurance could go bankrupt because of medical bills if they get unlucky, they literally don't believe what I say, like I'm exaggerating or trying to fool them
Exantius E Yeah, nobody understands this. Nobody understands how you can pay $1k+ mo for health insurance, and it still doesn’t cover jack anything. It’s like a fancy discount card (but only after deductible is met, yadda yadda!) We’re in a mega retarded place that makes no sense! It’s crappy even for a video game!
To be fair, the majority of Americans that have paid vacation don't even use it. Many people go years without taking a day off.
I thought the reason Japan had a suicide issue was bc they were so overworked…then I find out we work more than them. America is so messed up. I constantly have to remind myself that overworking myself is toxic, that’s how ingrained it is in my head.
When my daughter was born, my wife's work wanted her back as soon as possible. Daycares don't take kids younger than 6 weeks. My wife went on an unpaid leave, and when my daughter turned 6 weeks old, the wife wanted to take her to daycare and go back to work. We calculated the cost of Daycare and it would have taken all of my wife's paycheck (and I mean all of it). I told her that there was no point of doing so. Had her stay with our daughter and RAISED her instead of a stranger raising our own baby. It was a real struggle, but we made it. Yeah, this country sucks balls.
This is a sick FUCKING country and things need to change now
That moment when you realize that there are countries who are living the American dream but America is not one of them.
Denmark is supposedly the country that's highest in this. Don't quote me on that though haha
@@itsohaya4096 yup, the scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, Swiss and New Zealand have been domitating top 10 spots for years. In rankings like for example the world happiness index. Followed by some small yet rich east Asian countries.
Yes , Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland. Most Scandinavian countries enjoy a good work life balance.
@Saymum Hassan Riad That even those countries might have some isues, no country is perfect... doesn't make me an idiot. Because still however they are by capita the hapiest countries in the world, i have not done that reasearch. Its an annual publication of the UN.
*Land of the free* seems only to be a marketing slogan, how American.
It’s the land of the free elite, not the land of the free citizens. If an American thinks he is free, he should try to work abroad and maybe find a bride. Uncle Sam will tax your income, your bride’s and your future children’s. You can leave Uncle Sam, but Uncle Sam will never leave you. If you leave the land of the free, expect to pay a hefty fee.
And they believe their own marketing!
JP CBT... yet another thing Europeans can’t believe if we mention it to them. There’s literally like 1000 things nobody believes because they have no frame for it. We might as be North Korean.
land of the fee should be the saying
it's true. everything is a slogan. "Land of the free", "Democracy", "Free world", etc. it's to boost the morale of citizens and those abroad
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