@@Shnierpiffle Blaming Jews is just a distraction. The reality is that there are people of every ethnicity and background who want to squeeze the majority in order to support obscene wealth for themselves. Some are televangelists, others work at Blackrock, others run Saudi Arabia, others run Russia, others run Iran. Most politicians and economic elites in most large socioeconomically-stratified societies have always been of this type ever since the neolithic revolution. Qin Shi Huang, Alexander, Catherine the Great, Vlad the Impaler, Gilgamesh, Genghis Khan, Atilla, and so on. They were all of the same type who excel at BlackRock, and none of them were Jewish. Such people exist everywhere in every society, and they always try to rise to the top by all possible means because they are defined by being ruthless, energetic, intelligent, callous and Machiavellian. They only succeed though when the majority of people in a society are weak, divided or naive enough to let them, and they fall only when we bring them to heel with precisely targeted and muscular economic regulations the way Theodore Roosevelt and FDR did. That's what needs to happen. Spreading lame fake sludge about this ethnicity or that ethnicity, whether it is Jews, Koreans, Serbs, Croats or Tutsi people in Rwanda doesn't solve anything, it just kills random people who have nothing to do with anything, and distracts society from uniting to stop predatory oligarchs, monopolists and financial manipulators who are just as happy to squeeze Jewish people, squeeze white people, squeeze black people, squeeze Serbs, squeeze Croats, squeeze Koreans, squeeze Hutu, squeeze Tutsi, or whoever. The people at BlackRock aren't from anywhere in particular and they don't care where you come from, they'll just as happily squeeze absolutely anybody they can get their hands on.
Kind of... The 40 hour work week was agreed upon because Henry Ford and other business owners were convinced that 40 hours was the minimum amount of time an employee could work before it would negatively impact the business. In other words, they were looking out for the employer and not the employee when these hours were agreed upon.
yeah. something definitely has to give. and when it snaps. all you will hear are rich people flying out in helicopters ; because if we get our hands on them. you will see it look like rome. crucified mfrs being posted up so that other political enemies understand we aint playing anymore
My very first job was at a McDonalds. I was 16 and one of the youngest people who worked there. A lot of the other workers were older single women who were previous CNAs and Nurses who could no longer do the physically demand of healthcare and so had to work fast food becasue they couldn't find jobs elsewhere.
Blackrock is a main group that is causing our downfall and now they give a solution but of course it is something that hurts the economy even more. They want that.
I know I'll be working for life just like Charlie Monger and Warren Buffet and Bill Gates and Donald Trump and Oprah... u guys can work that 4 day week. More money for me. This stock portfolio is hungry and ain't gonna feed itself
No matter how you slice it the concept of work until you can't anymore is fairly brutal. So when you can finally relax and spend your hard earned money you can't do anything because you are physically disabled by then? For men life expectancy is like 76. 50 years of working, 11 years of dementia. Thanks, great life.
@xoxxobob61 It is sad, JFK tried to undo the damage that happened in 1913 under Woodrow Wilson, who admitted to "unwittingly" selling out the country....JFK is the only president I respect to this day. His policies would've been an absolute game changer, and that's exactly why he's gone. Knowing everything I know, there's no way I could ever take any other president seriously.
I’m glad I am a physician. Though it took me a while to get here (in my late 20’s), I have the choice of being able to work for MYSELF soon. To set my schedule and my own goals without having to worry about someone else’s bottom line. I feel for those working for companies that only care about the dollar.
I mow lawns for a living. No student loans, started out of highschool. I am my own boss and make 120k mowing lawns 8 months of the year and clearing snow every other day and usually less for the other 4 months.
@stevenswitzer5154 I've thought of being a handyman. Huge income potential fixing simple things that people cant be bothered to fix or have no mechanical aptitude. Problem is where I'm currently living (a smallish city) it would be hard to get parts as there are only three options and they more or less stock mostly the same stuff
@@juliogonzo2718 Are you in the US? You should talk to the three hardware stores and see if you can get what is called a 'reseller permit" in your state which means you will not be paying tax on the parts at least, or you could work out some sort of % deal with the owners if they are independent. Good luck my friend.
Notice it's never, NEVER, a man who works with his body, and ALWAYS a man who works in an office who advocates for a longer work life. I didn't mention women because I've simply not come across any who advocate for that.
Well women aren't expected to work. I'm not saying I'm against women working, however I haven't met many women that work a full time job and not complain about the hours. Due to my baby momma's actions in life, I've worked roughly 60 hour work weeks (5 twelve hour work shifts) I unfortunately had to still cook and clean, yet in her current relationship, she rarely cooks and cleans, yet her boyfriend doesn't. I'm not going to treat her like an equal nor would I ever consider her an equal.
Eh. Women don't get off the hook on this when you demand a man spend on you constantly and then you don't want to be accountable for the situation we're in. Now you need two incomes to survive and men are supposed to make more than women to waste money on a relationship...that money comes from working more hours which men work more hours.
Some did try. They weren't successful. Gen Xers tried, but not enough of them. It's up to Millenials & Gen Zers to do something different to get something different. What actions will be taken? Just making content & commenting isn't enough to bring change. Just stirs up angst & anxiety.
We've always had to work unhealthy hours to get by, we just aren't getting by anymore. Boomers would rather the younger generations starve and die before they concede to making life better in any meaningful way.
Boomer here, you are so right. So many of us got sick and died before we ever got a chance to retire. They will just kick your corpse aside and make room for your replacement, forget about you in less than a week. Better live your life now.
Yea but some of us were lucky or had the balls to keep on going. And then we retired and had a great time. So here is a tip save your cash and when you hit 60 or so, many you will feel like stopping work, if not well you will die working.
@vietnamvet4533 Unfortunately, those that came before us made that impossible. Nowadays, we can barely afford the essentials. We don't have the time or money to even _think_ about saving for retirement, especially once our car breaks down and we have to spend our savings on repairs.
@@vietnamvet4533save what money? After rent/mortgage, utilities, food and medical most of us are in the red. When the overall cost of living has gone up 20x since the 80s and 90s and income has only gone up about 5x all that free money people had to save went poof.
That is horrible she was literally this 👌🏽 close!! Maybe her body knew it was time to rest but couldn’t make it. This country profits off of our labor AND our death. It’s so so sad
@@deasyastarr so sad that most people, if their immediate family members were to die, or be in a serious accident, in this country's current economic state, the cost of burial or treatment could financially ruin them while they're barely making it to next paycheck.
One of my coworkers died while working an extra shift overnight, she was normally a day shift worker. All she wanted was to be able to own a home and retire for a while, but low wages and pulling constant overtime trying to afford a life killed her. At work a week later, it was like she never existed. 😢
Yep. Agree with all of this. I’m a 51 year old Gen X’er. I kept my expenses low enough and have a job where I work 3 days one week and 4 days the next and alternate like that. I work nights so I need LOTS of recovery time. This works well. I’m one of the last to have an actual partial pension from a hospital I worked at for 13 years. Praying social security will still be here when I can retire…if the world even still exists then.
Facts, not all might be evil people as some might have been born into money so their life might as well be in a separate reality....but that's probably the 0.01% of Billionaires as the rest are diffently not in anyway going to look at making regular people's lives better outside of a Virtue Singling/PR Booster/Tax Discount purposes.
@@Jack-mb4jx The exact problem with generational wealth of such extreme proportions is it is given to individuals dissociated from collective reality and who have nowhere near as much drive to be competent or altruistic due to their environment and the opportunities it guarantees. We saw the same shit with Monarch's of old (and the wealthy of today's world are basically a neo-aristocracy in all but name) who tended to descend from at least a fairly competent individual, and tended to become significantly worse over time.
The issue is what we reward in modern society and how hard geared that is towards certain people. The economic aim atm is monopoly and the absolute exploitation of any resources, including humans, to get to the pinnacle first so you can then control everything else and make all the money in the world. It's partially an issue with corporatism itself and also heavily a result of publicly traded companies have shareholders that demand constant growth no matter how insane this might be. It's the same issues as we've always faced as a species after the agricultural revolution, the few controlling the majority of the resources, everyone else struggling to get by while they are forced to work beneath those living in luxury, we just call it something different now, but it's effectively neo-feudalism in the social structure itself and how people fall into it.
For those who need to hear this.. Social Security is a Safety Net for those who forgot to save for Old Age... It was never ment to Retire on... May God Bless You All..
Social Security is under the guise of that. In reality, it is a 0% interest loan given to the government by the taxpayer. If it was to help us, it should never be spent. But even then, the value would be less due to inflation.
I saw something recently of a congressman from one of the southern states saying that his constituents are telling him they want the retirement age to be LATER than it is now!!! Haha!!!!! OKAY!!!!!!!!! These politicians are MFing criminals and scumbags!!!!
@@kylealton4347 do slaves get to retire? Because that's all we are to them. Worker ants to feed their pocketbooks. Stay out on the production floor until you die. But I want you to think about this. If there was a guy hoarding billions of news papers. In his basement, attic, in safety deposit boxes and off shore storage facilities to make sure no one could take away all of his newspapers. We would throw them in an Institution. Just sayin.
You know what we don't talk about enough? That the "retirement" age is supposedly 65, but we have exclusively 75 - 85 year old Boomers running the country.
85 year old people aren't Boomers. They're the Silent Gen (born 1928-1945), and they're still very powerful in this country. There are even still some of the Greatest Generation in the judiciary.
The older you are the better you are at making decisions. then also at 75+ you don't have the burden of raising a family which gives you needed space for critical thinking.
I have a friend that just recently moved to the US and all they talk about is how we work too much in America. In their country all jobs are salary so there is no point to be doing extra hours when you will receive the same pay.
I retired relatively young and the best thing about it is that every day is mine to spend however I please. I couldn’t even imagine working until 65, especially at a job I hated.
Thats pretty much the fate life dealt to my Grandpa (he did get to retire at 60 instead of 65 but he right before his 66th birthday to cancer... thats partly what made me refuse to do it. I wasn't about to work like a damn dog my whole life just to die a painful death to cancer. I mean that crap is genetic whos to say I don't have the same fate awaiting me down the road? May as well enjoy my life now I say
I would say look through history - man has always always struggled just to survive. Just because our parents in this recent generation had it good for 50 years is no actual picture of reality. But I share your interest in shorter work hours and a decent retirement. It's just not reality for Billions of humans over time.
Some other countries do this and if you look it up, the polls tell us that not only are the peoples happier, but they work harder too as they actually have time to decompress each week and don’t feel burned out
@@able34bravo37 Japan is one of them and if you’ve seen how it is over there, it’s pretty nice. The cleanest country I’ve ever been to and a lot of things they do differently/better than the US
@@CheekFinesser2in manga and anime industries in Japan, the work schedules are reported to be about as close to non-stop as humanely possible. I've heard that this work ethic and silent struggle for the greater good is part of Japanese culture, though the anime/manga industries take it to an extreme. Is that not the case for other industries in Japan?
The 40 hour workweek was established 84 years ago when industry still required large amounts of physical labor. Today thanks to automation and technology, people can accomplish far more in less time. It's the reason many people feel like half the work day is wasted time.
Black Rock's CEO is a clown and clearly out of touch with the reality the average American worker faces. I am 45 years old and spent the better part of my life working labor jobs 75+ hours a week just to survive. To say I'm burnt out from it would be an understatement. I have a mountain of health issues from working to death my entire life. My spine is so shot I can no longer stand for hours at a time without it swelling up completely. This delusional CEO has never had a real job and it shows. His idea of work is barking orders at his servants, the rest of us are the ones doing all the real work! Its pathetic how Americans are expected to work till 65, most are not able too without incurring serious health challenges along the way. If anything, the retirement age should be 55, not 65. People should have a right to be rewarded for their efforts, without being forced to work until they're dead. People should be able to withdrawal their retirements at 55. The government is hoping people will die before they're eligible to collect social security and their pensions. All being said, those of us who actually work hard for a living cant work until we're 65, our bodies aren't going to hold up that long, that is just reality.
GenX here. Totally agree we need a reset for a much better work/life balance. Technology was supposed to free us from the 9-5 drudgery. But all it did is give us more jobs to do for the same pay and all the extra profits went to the top.
@@vl1180 It's always been a luxury to get dayshift hours if you're working anything beyond what would be considered minimum wage work. There's always a night shift and more often than not in my field, a 3rd shift. You're more likely to be working until close to midnight or 7am than getting nice "normal" hours. I can assure you that even as a night owl, I much prefer getting my job done from 7/8/9 to 3/4/5 than getting off work at midnight or in the morning.
Was more like 6am - 6pm but only pained for 9-5 for me.. until I said fuck it and no-call-no-showed and got a better job I now no longer let abuse me ❤
9-5 implies you have a 30 minute lunch break. 8-5 implies your lunch is an hour long. If you are unhappy with your job, find another 1 or start your own business.
As a millennial, I'm getting tired of living through constant economic crisis. When are we kicking the oligarchs to the curb and building a country of the people, by the people, for the people?
@@waterandafter Yes, I vote. Local elections as well as state and federal. Voting is the entry ticket to civic engagement. I also write to my public officials and have attended city counsel meetings that are relevant to my life. My issue is that wealthy interests are catered to over the needs of the general population. Thus my call to "kick the oligarchs to the curb".
I worked a 40-hour week and they pushed everyone to go 3 twelve-hour days so they could keep machines going 24 hours, 6 days a week. Now that they can't find employees under 30 that will show up or not quit after a couple months they want me to go back to 5 eights, but that's 2 more days of rush hours, unpaid lunches when you work less than 12 hours and less time to relax after doing hard work at home. They can't push me into going back because with the millennial mindset they can't find young people they can trust to replace me.
German here, I have a well paying job and treated myself to a 4 day week starting from my 50th birthday. Sure it's 20% less money but boy oh boy a regular 3 day weekend is so fucking good for my well being. The difference is quality of life is well worth it.
Agreed, but finding a job here in the states with benefits for that schedule… we don’t have healthcare guaranteed, hardly any time off, almost no family leave, etc. The trade off in many “forward thinking” scheduling jobs is not only a pay cut, but a drop below the federally-supported level to have any other benefits beyond the paycheck (and some of those will last only until the legislators are able to destroy/roll back “Obamacare”). So, many times, you go from slightly larger paycheck but with at least some meager benefits and the opportunity to buy into a healthcare plan through collective bargaining pool, versus less money and good luck buying an individual health plan, especially if you’re older and therefore a higher risk v reward for the insurance company since you’re a risk pool of one. I currently have a salaried job with benefits and ostensibly a 3.5 day workweek, but I spend an *average* of 22 hours a week outside my scheduled hours for medical charting, case research, and contacting clients. So they get their “pound of flesh” either way. I am truly glad that you are able to make this shift. I really feel like this is how things need to go for us in general. I just wish it were easier to realize. ❤️
@@cooperaiken8148 I just want to be able to own a home by the time I'm 30. Things are currently wayyyy too in favor of shareholders and CEO's, if we ask for triple what we'd want, we might get barely enough to cover our needs.
@@cooperaiken8148I wonder why. It's almost likenworking the full 5 days and destroying ourselves for that "extra 20%" is still not enough to afford the basic needs for survival
I'm Gen X and I'm in the very same boat. We did "everything" we were told that would give us the American dream. After a "once in a lifetime recession" followed by a "once in a lifetime inflation," I got nothing left.
Yep, Gen-X was held down in the workforce the first 20+ years of our careers. Boomers had all the best jobs that made the most money. Now, it's "our time" to fill those higher-paying jobs, and we're overwhelmed because our generation is small in number. Millennials are doing their best, but they lost about 5 years of work experience in the '07-'09 housing crisis. Zoomers (Gen-Z), are just....oh, boy. Ah, well, they're typically kids of Gen-X, and things ain't looking good for them, let's just say. Est. '76.
My mother (a Boomer) worked nearly 60 hrs a week for DECADES to have a comfortable retirement and passed a year after officially retiring. The point? Enjoy life NOW and don't kill yourself being a slave for some corporation.
I am mostly bedridden with a terminal illness I came down with at 38, I'm now 40. I worked as hard as I could, as long as I could, since I was 16. I did everything my country told me to do, and now I tread water for exercise because that's all my body can handle. I have to rely on the kindness of my friends to afford my medicine. I have barely any money, and I'll never see a dime of the Social Security money I put into my nation. I have almost nothing to show for decades of doing exactly what I was told I should do. Don't let these people force you to waste your youth: there's no guarantee you'll even see 65. I may not see 45.
I have a coworker who passed away in his sleep a few months ago. He was a great guy, didn't seem unhealthy. Left behind his wife and 6 year old son. I think about that a lot. He never even got close to retirement. Just randomly gone one day. Life's too short to give it all to work. You have to give *at least* half your energy to yourself and the people you love. You never know when you'll run out of time.
My great aunt had a coworker who died on her first day of retirement. 30 year career in the public school system. Exhausted from the endless cycle and worsening quality of life, her body literally gave up as soon as she had real rest. Pensions are barely worth it. My condolences for your coworker's family and you. Loss is never easy. Especially when there is a young family waiting. But even if you do make it to retirement, you may not last. That's what I have learned.
@Lomhow my original typing didn't send it seems - some make it to 120 years old, others never make it to kindergarten. It's unfortunate when you don't plan to live life for very long, and even more unfortunate when you don't get to live long.
Poor homeless people have plenty of time to sit around doing nothing with family. If you want to keep the lights on, your AC running, video games and internet then you better plan on continuing to work. If not Americans will soon be eating bark and drinking brown water out of creeks like 3rd world countries. But hey, in a 3rd world country you will have plenty of time to sit around doing nothing with family
@@AlexanderofMiletus says the lemming who thinks the world is built out of magic. Either that or you want to bring back slavery to pay for all of the "free" stuff you want
Honestly the move away from pension to 401(k) is a huge deal. Before it was loyalty to the company and they would make sure you could retire. Now they give you a tiny sum and say you are responsible if it is invested poorly. No loyalty to the workers anymore, yet we are expected to give and give and give our lives away.
Plus what they do match, gets lessened over state of emergencies like Covid and cut back our benefits, pay less, with zero cost of living increases. Increasing our healthcare costs/ coverage. It’s total BS! Seniority no longer matters at my company, and we’re supposed to let them choose our vacation time. Sounds like a good time.
Ohhh and let’s not forget they lower the amount we could earn and capped it at almost $10k less than before Covid. Crazy how Covid changed everything possible. Planned just as they wanted it.
What you say may be true but there's more to it. Workers were the ones who started the job hopping trend looking for higher wages, once they normalized that the companies simply followed with the move away from pensions as they weren't transferable between companies and employees weren't staying around long enough to make them worthwhile.
I've seen the stock market crap out thrice in just my working life. I'm not tossing my money into a hole where I'm super likely to not get anything back. I only invest in things with a guaranteed ROI at this point in my life.
As a British person with about 6 weeks holiday, plus unlimited sick days, your holidays to me are just Victorian era factory worker, even if you worked in service back then you got 12 days a year (one Sunday a month). Keep fighting!
Working remotely during the pandemic changed my life forever. The fact that I could get more work done without wasting all this time getting ready for work and commuting and have more personal time on top of that
Yeap same, i don’t even consider jobs that aren’t 100% remote anymore. It was funny though before covid I kept asking for remote working and kept getting told there was a “business need” to be in the office. Then covid hit and suddenly the office didn’t matter lol. During covid it became apparent that the office was entirely unnecessary, they did try to broach returning to the office but the backlash was so strong they caved. Best part is when they realised their power trip was over, they sold 2 of 3 buildings they had in the city and saved a ton of money, productivity went up, client satisfaction went up and staff turnover reduced. All of which they could have achieved years before if they hadn’t been so dumb.
I've said something along these lines for most of my life. There are so many jobs in so many companies that could and should be done from home. The few times I've held those jobs, I always thought that I'd actually put in more hours working from home rather than going somewhere to do what I can do from home. With that said, if you actually make or do things that keep the world moving you can't. Things need to be made. Things need to be built. Supplies need to be built for bigger things. Buildings need built. People poop. People drink. People spend waaaaaaaaaay too much time on the internet.
@@Mattlott222 True some jobs can’t be done remotely, but if all the rest of us who can do our jobs remotely, are doing our jobs remotely, it makes the travel etc of those who can’t do their jobs remotely that much easier and quicker.
I worked my ass for the first 5 years out of the military to set myself up so, i could go tell the man to fuck off with his over time. I use all my vacation time by the end of the year. If not, i guess its a day off to go to a firearms class with my son and daughter. They got so mad one year, when i have 1 vacation left and i scheduled a Tuesday off. They asked why, told i had 1 vacation day left to use. They asked what i was going to do. I showed them a picture of my son and daughter learning how to shoot at 1000 yards.
“No business that depends for existence on paying less than a living wage to its workers has any right to continue in this country… by living wage I mean more than the bare substance level - I mean the wage of a decent living” -FDR the guy who with congress made the minimum wage in America. It’s kind of disgusting how America let corporations leak into politics with legalized bribery using one of the worst examples of lobbying to keep wages low and even siphon taxes for their businesses.
The most dyatopian thing is the number of living units that are unoccupied all or almost all of the time. They are kept vacant to bid up the price or because they are mainly used for money laundering or as a tax write-off. Let's tax unoccupied units and use the money to subsidize new unit construction and rehabilitation.
@@delanorrosey4730 more and more people are realizing they have absolutely nothing to lose. It's going to be an interesting time when this all comes to a head. And it shall.
Bruh, the upperclass ppl leading that charge got beheaded just as soon and then they elected a dictator turned emperor that decided to take over the continent
Guess what: Retirement age in Germany is right now 67 for me, it will be raised - I am quiet sure about it - in the future to at least 70 for my generation and it "secures" me in a best favour maybe 2/3 of my net income. So...whats about complaining? It doesn't help you either as every Generation do have his challenges and everyone needs to fight against their challenges. so...learn to do things by yourself...or get overwhelmed, whatever comes your way.
Millennial living with parents because I can't afford to live on my own due to health issues that prevent me from working full time. I'm lucky but my retirement plan is prison, like the old Japanese ladies! Look it up, prison is the legit conscious decision of more and more people, it's called the grey crime wave and prison usually has oversight, socialization and three meals a day. In Japan the little old lady crime is overtaking other demographics. I am a student but I'll be in a LOT of debt and my health issues aren't bad enough to get support, and too bad to keep a job.
He may do now but it wasn't all so easy. From his wiki page: Fink was born on November 2, 1952. He grew up as one of three children in a Jewish family in Van Nuys, California, where his mother Lila (1930-2012) was an English professor and his father Frederick (1925-2013) owned a shoe store. You bet his parents drilled a hefty work ethic into him.
@@Swampster70I don't think you understand how well the economy was doing back then. California of the 50s isn't like the Commiefornia of today. That boomer was given every opportunity and him and those like him pulled the ladder up with them.
My grandfather worked for Ford, he worked hard his whole life, barely took time off so that he could enjoy retirement with my grandmother. He was retired for 1 year before he passed away. So all the plans him and my grandmother made for decades faded into nothing.
This doesn’t even mention the fact that the 9-5 system was designed around the traditional atomic family where only one member spends the 9-5 hours at work while the other takes care of the home labour side of stuff, not for both parents to spend 12h out just to pay rent. We need to rethink the system to accommodate 2 working partners with careers outside the omnipresent home labour.
"America's retirement age of 65 is Crazy" Say's man who never broke a sweat at work, never lifted a 150lb load, with or without help, never walked off the work site absolutely filthy. Yea idiocy like that is easy to say if your ubber greedy and work in a suit.
Yeah but we ain't rich either. I'm with you man been in the oil field my whole life, spent my whole 20s on rigs and in machine shops traveling all across south texas and Louisiana. The 120 hour work weeks are still not worth it. I traded my whole life for what is essentially a couple extra dollars. Looking back right now it's bullshit. Ain't none of us actually rolling in money. It's still shit. A house, 3 kids and a wife is a fucking luxury right now and that is bullshit worth going to war over.
It's right there in the name of the HR department - "Human Resources." They see you as a resource, nothing more. Those departments used to be called "Personnel" back when business had at least a touch of humanity in it.
I don't know where yall work, but over here, we have a big shortage of work force, so companies are ready to kill for every worker they have, and do everything they can to attract new workers. I work in a big car manufacturing company, and they treat us with respect and care. A month of paid vacation every year, a bonus every year if you hit the plan, comfortable working space (air conditioning, good chairs, new computers and peripherals, freshly renovated), all sorts of social programs and security, stable income. If you have an emergency and need to leave - you can, just need to let your boss know. In our department in particular, it won't even be subtracted from your total hours at the end of the month (as long as you don't abuse it). Sure, it's 8 to 5 monday to friday, but I see no problem with it. I don't feel like I'm wasting my life at work, quite the contrary - I socialize and do something productive that'll help others. And the bosses, even most of the top (like the CEO) are chill people, and treat their workers like actual people. And our company is not an outliar, it's a standard here
Problem with the 4 day work week is: One of the biggest benefits is being able to schedule appointments on the Friday, however if everyone is working mon-thurs then Friday will just become part of the weekend, invalidating it as a day for appointments. 4 10hr day is still my favorite shift tho👍
You forgot to mention they’ve done pilot programs of a 4 day work week already and the results are insane! 1. Productivity goes UP (not down) 2. Profits go up, even if salary remains the same, so the company net GAINS from cutting working hours back 3. Engagement and self reported happiness goes up. Companies don’t care if they literally work you to death. But they do care if they make more money, so we just need to pitch this correctly.
@@LeftofLunacy so well said! I think that unfortunately there's a lot of people, including rich business owners who simply want to keep others down because if you're miserable, poor and exhausted you're easy to manipulate and you'll not be able to use your creativity to get ahead
@@m_g4547 it's about control. Same as forcing people who worked from home during COVID to come back into the office. Everyone managed just fine for 2 years, but they damn sure don't want you catching up on laundry or doing dishes while you're on the clock, soo...
@@m_g4547I also think the reason for this is to keep children in schools as long as possible. I graduated 3 years ago and let me tell ya, about a third the day is wasted doing NOTHING, and a few core classes (mainly english) provided nothing of value after 10th grade. I think they want both parents to work as long as possible so they send their children to public schools for as long as possible. Why? I'm not entirely sure but I think it's to implant this idea that a long work week is not only normal but necessary so workers don't lash out against their management because "everyone works 40 hrs a week". Also, bear in mind I'm not a young guy that doesn't know hard work. I work 30 to 40 hours outside, and for the past 2 years, spent around 20 hrs a week on my engineering degree. If a decision is obvious but nothing is happening, then there's a reason we don't know of, which proves testament to this issue.
But who will make my Starbucks coffee on a Friday then? Buddy you don't understand I NEED Walmart to be open 24/7 and on holidays. How else am I gonna fill the existential void created by our godless society? Scan my groceries quick ma'am, my AI generated images are almost done.
@@every_username_is_takenwe don’t have to ALL work the same 4 days… but I’m not going to act like I haven’t gone to Walmart the day before Thanksgiving because I wasn’t sufficiently prepared 😂😅😅
Hold on to your constitutional rights my fellow Americans, hold on to your rights, because once you lose them, you won't be able to negotiate them back.
Blackrock CEO can retire now... yet, young people have championed guys like him to lead their future. Late millenials and Gen Z need to reevaluate their short/long-term outcomes and who they look up to.
And they justify it by throwing data at you like "this is the median income for your postion". How tf is that valid or relevant when every conglomerate and corporation is actively stifling wages, while the CEO takes home +100mil a YEAR. Every 1m at least 10 could be making $5000 more every year, forever.
Get a better job Get a roommate to split expenses Get a low cost education in a high demand field Join the military Relocate to a cheap part of the country Use free time to make a hobby that can produce income Create other forms of revenues that are low risk medium reward. Anything but shrugging and calling it slavery
I agree with you 100%. We need to address these issues, but it feels like we are 20 years too late. The billionaire class has gained so much power and control that it seems like the entire system will have to implode before change can start to happen. Waiting for the boomers to die was my first thought, but now it seems we will have to wait for the entire system to collapse. I see the economic crisis as sort of a black hole. Those in power have gained so much mass that it's impossible to escape their grip. I don't know what the solution is, but we need to start somewhere.
@@alanjurado474why do you purpose since you have so much to add? How should the degenerate corrupt American government and lobbyists and corporations be corrected?
@alanjurado474 nice job projecting your anger instead of contributing to healthy conversation. Your comment provides zero value. Where did I put blame, or where did i say that i wanted to do nothing about it? I am honestly lost as to how we can even start to address the economic issues my generation and those after me are currently facing.
In South Africa, the most stores are from 7 to 5 or 5 30 And bigger stuff like grocers are from 7 30 to 6 from Monday to Saturday, and on Sunday they are open till 1
The purpose is not to increase productivity but to keep our minds and bodies preoccupied and dull so we never have time to question what is going on around us.
@@Lii__I have to disagreeveith your first statement. The 8-5 is still a problem in physical or labour jobs. Like in construction. Sure while I'm in my 20s I'm fine but I just look at the guys over 30 or even 40 and while they can do a lot, there's things they literally can't do anymore. Either from injury -usually on the job- or just from repeated motion. Guys have tennis elbow and they've never picked up a racket in his life. Or some back thing because they're constantly picking up things equal to their weight. And then Bosses still want unpaid overtime. It's not just the overtime, it's the whole package. Now less demanding jobs sure- maybe, something with lots of downtime or a different flow of work but construction and so many other physical jobs are always 0 or 100, little to no inbetween. So more rest should be a general factor. I notice the difference when I have a 3 day weekend. I can go 5 days with 3 days rest but the 2:5 ratio flattens me and I can't actually recover before getting slammed again. Fighters get months apart in fights for this very reason, but the people building your home's, highways and stores must just get over it and stay tired and injured?? Ok... We'll see that laugh when a skyscraper collapses because the crew was too tired to remember a few bolts or too fatigued to have the strength to tighten them properly.
There was a man who I checked into the hotel that I worked at, he worked for the railroad, it was his last day of work before retirement his retirement was the next day..... It was a hot 90° day, when he came back from work the owner of the hotel talked to him and the man said he was extremely tired. The next morning the man's roommate woke up to find him dead. He had died of a heart attack in his sleep, the night before his retirement. 💔 I think of him often. It was just so sad.
Wow. My dad is in the railroad looking forward to retirement in the next 2 to 6 years. (We're hoping for less!). Plus he has heart issues too, but has done a lot to get himself healthier over the past years. I think of this too. How much I hope he can quit sooner to spend more time with my mom who is already retired and my kids who love him dearly but don't see him as much as we want because he's always on call and gone more than he's home. He always has said my whole life that we never know when our number will be up, when the Good Lord calls us home. That's the retirement we need to look forward to! ❤
You have no clue what "barely scraping by" means. If you're not retiring that's on you. Why the fuck do you rely on a government program? You could've easily built your own retirement fund
@@redlight3932 Assumptions which are guaranteed to be 100% accurate given the statement the other guy made. Just starting from the fact that he has an electronic appliance and either wifi or a data plan to be posting that comment already tells me he's not scraping by, and thus doesn't know what it means as he claims to be just scraping by. Anyone and everyone in the US has the ability to build their own retirement plan. You have to literally CHOOSE not to do it and waste your money instead in order not to get there.
When I left France two years ago they implemented a 34 hour work week down from 36, now there’s a country that says family first!!! ❤ oh they also enacted a law that your work can not email text or call after hours. It can wait!!
Now they, France is over run by Marxist and Immigrant criminal gangs. Spare me, their end and culture is over. I dont think an 8 hour work week will ease the horror coming their way.
You know, a four-day work week that leaves the weekend for off time sounds amazing. For any religious people, they could attend their places of worship for services easily.
I have worked 5-6 days a week for 30 years and I’m still on-board with this. We are so behind the rest of the world on how to treat humans it’s disgusting.
If you did something you enjoy, working wouldn't be a problem. The education system churns out wage slaves and doesn't educate them on how money works. Here's the kicker, it's a choice. I started a business because I wanted control over my schedule. No it's not for everyone, however I made a choice, not complain.
@@Okhowarya why does the argument always have to be others are worse to justify how we do it? Do we treat our workers the best should be the question, not if others are worse. There are dozens of countries that are way ahead in workers rights and protections.
@@Floridajitler Austrian painter was dead wrong and shot himself like a coward after the world's first socialist state crushed Germany and smashed its war machine to bits
Personally, i will not have children because of this horrible work/life connection. It's too expensive to have children, no time to see them. This economy will not get more "slaves" , from me at least.
That's because they keep moving the goalposts and increasing taxes. You see what they're doing? Raising the bar higher so we can never reach it. Meanwhile, we are burning out faster and struggling more.
I am 67. I worked for a company for 20 years. We belonged to the UAW. Our company was shut down in 2014. The company stole half of our pension from us. Where was the UAW on our behalf? Non Existent. I feel sorry for my children and grandchildren. I hope Jesus comes soon.
I don’t want a 4 day workweek. I want my 40 hours. I just want corporate to stop hiring the minimal amount of people and having 1 person do the job of 3 people to save money:
My dad retired at 78 yo. He passed at 96 yo. As a young adult he once told me they used to work from sunrise to sunset… in Mexico it’s called “de sol a sol” the claim that people that work too much d !e sooner is nonsense. RIP both your dad and mine tho …
I drove a concrete truck for 30 years. Monday through Friday. You start at the time they would schedule you the day before. Most of the time around 5:00-7:00. You worked until you were done, no set time. Then you wouldn't know until Friday if you had to work Saturday. But some companies would have overnight concrete pours(some more than others)that you would have to do and still be expected to do the all the day work. FK THAT SH!T.
@@kateb3llekiddo don't listen to this rhetoric. We've been working 80weeks to get ahead for multiple generations. You want a house, learn a trade and put in the hours.
What's crazy is the retirement age is being pushed to 70 which is the average lifespan of a human. That's right...they LITERALLY want you to work until you DROP DEAD with nothing to show for your efforts.
This is why I'm planning to retire at 55... I'll have put in 30 years to California's state pension by then and I'll adjust my finances as needed so I can enjoy the end of my life, not work through it.
I'm looking at sacrificing having a house to instead potentially (if I play my cards right) retire possibly 25 years early. Everyone told me college was the only way, but I knew trades was where you go to make money. Even so, the fact I still struggle with my salary is definitely a problem.
I been begging for a 12 hour work shift, with 3 on 4 off and 4 on and 3 off structure. Those in charge say its impossible, but they just dont like how there is 4 hours built in with OT.
@@galaxybun8775 I mean i kinda just skipped everything after he opened with talking about the retirement age so wasn't commenting on any of that. Blackrock is one of the dirty mega corps that are actively making life worse every way they can, but I'm still going to rightfully blame the government for screwing everything up and empowering the likes of Blackrock. for example, while i don't have the actual data I'm very sure that an employee's cost to an employer (including all of the taxes and other government mandated stuff) is probably double what the employee sees for a gross income. (and then the government takes a chunk directly form the employee as well)
@@ThatGuy-vi8ch you will have to elaborate, don't see how that's relevant to "this government program is and always has been a failure and legalized robbery"
