[RANT] The lower rungs on the economic ladder are gone

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@PhoneRepairGuru Год назад

Louis, I've been watching your videos since I was 14-15 years old and you were one of my biggest inspirations starting up. Just want you to know and I think I speak for all repair techs when I say this, you are incredibly appreciated. People like you have paved the way for people like me. Without your advocacy for the right-to-repair movement we'd be in a much shittier position right now. So thank you.

@rossmanngroup Год назад

Thank you, that means a lot coming from people that are considerably more talented than I am! Thank you so much, I really appreciate it.

@youKnowWho3311 Год назад

If I control the money, I care not who you elect. Printing of currency ensures this. It will be recycled and reset, but until that happens, the middle and lower classes will suffer. It's called a depression for a reason. On a lighter note, repairs should increase relative to new purchases in a given downturn.

@gmw3083 Год назад

Steampunk laptops and smartphones. The next big things...

@BaliFoodTreePlanter Год назад

Louis, Talk to me if you can take used broken electronic things & change into a bigger wall screen version at a Bali price. Have you ever been to Bali? Leave your gmail .

@WhoIsJohnGaltt Год назад

Right to repair is in itself a violation of individual rights You can’t have a right to force somebody to give you the product or terms you desire

@SalemTechsperts Год назад

Man...I started making a video earlier today about how depressing it is that our industry is dying, and why I'm being forced to move on. I gave up a few minutes in because it became such a fucking bummer to talk about. Growing up poor as fuck, wanting to make money without having to take advantage of people, starting my entire business making crumbs on stupid ass repairs, and using those crumbs to start a business inside of a fucking Subway. Then turning that into being able to provide for my struggling parents while creating a life for myself that I sometimes feel like has to be a fever dream. This is a story I'm sure thousands of us in this industry can share because the bar of entry used to be so low. But now that bar is a fucking barbed wire fence 40 feet tall. It makes me think, if I were entering the industry today, what would I do? And the answer is, nothing. I'd be fucked. I'd prob be providing IT support for some douchebags company that's contributing to the downfall of society. Now I'm ranting. Thanks for making this video.

@joshroolf1966 Год назад

Good rant, well said.

@forbiddenera Год назад

Glad I decided repairing tiny stuff was too much of a pain in the ass for me years ago after fixing some friends phones.. sorry that the industry sux

@Lumpia_In_Texas Год назад

Lol democrats voted for this.

@ericcruz7068 Год назад

Damn

@Robert_D_Mercer Год назад

Bro... As a Construction worker, a constructual engineer in rebar and steel, I F'ing FEEL you. DIYS has Been dying since the younger generation REFUSED to wear a toolbelt with me. 31 years old, and 10 years of my life working for douchebags to get nothing out of it either. The only way your gonna see change is if WE were the Gov. So sick of dealing with people telling you "no"

@FlamingToaster Год назад

Sad thing is, this is becoming the norm almost in any industry - I mean, basically the whole idea of apprenticeship is gone. You are supposed to show up at internship and already have some experience. Most of the ladders have bottom rungs removed

@cjlooklin1914 Год назад

I don't know what the truth is, but I hear that here in a America, the older skilled labour guys and the youngest generation don't get along well

@Coldbird1337 Год назад

yeup, welcome to late stage capitalism.

@davidgoodnow269 Год назад

If you are anywhere on either coast, but particularly the East Coast, and can pass a background investigation (not "check," _investigation_ ), then look in to Maritime Machinist, Maritime Welder, Maritime Electrician. So many retired/fired under the COVID Mandate that employers are at only about 30 percent capacity. Of course, that means you may have to get the latest and greatest shot, to keep the job. But, it currently pays 3x Union scale at about $120/hour, and it's a traditional Apprentice, Journeyman, Master Union job with transferable skills needed around the world.

@elimgarak1127 Год назад

Nobody wants to teach since they fear you'll bail the second you learn and get paid more somewhere else. This is what happens when the dollar has no value and you can't buy loyalty by giving out raises as people deserve them. Repealing minimum wage would decrease the cost of goods and employ millions of people. It would keep people busy doing little things and everyone would be happier.

@chico9805 Год назад

@@Coldbird1337 Late-stage corporatism*.

@philhubb5885 Год назад

It's not just electronics repair. The lower rungs are being removed everywhere. As a kid, my pediatrician practiced medicine from an addition to his house. I haven't seen that in decades.

@Teampegleg Год назад

Manufacturing has been offshored for over 40 years now. IT market is decimated by offshoring, with all but programming and the most senior jobs largely offshored/H1B at many large corporations. Accounting market is starting to see offshoring of lower level jobs. They are actively getting into the auditing market. And that is without considering automation and software that streamline the jobs. What jobs are there for people anymore? And when we invent them, how long before they are offshored? In the past a new technology came out and Americans had at least a decade before the offshore companies caught up, now it is a couple of years at best. ETA: Just to be clear I specifically didn't mention any countries as the problem isn't where the job is going but the political and corporate policies that send the jobs overseas.

@forthehonorforge4840 Год назад

@@Teampeglegwell without jobs we can all be free to be artists now like me! Except I'm still an entrepreneur and in debt even with a second career doing environmental consulting. Yay...

@durandus676 Год назад

A dentist at a small town I grew up as a small child and went to highschool in is the only house practitioner I can think of still doing that.

@TheBooban Год назад

@@Teampegleg yeps, half the jobs went to China. The other half Indians came and took ‘em. Not blaming either. This is because of your politicians.

@honkhonk8009 Год назад

Same with software engineering. You used to be able to straight up show that you can code and you didnt even need a degree to get into it.

@DeoFayte Год назад

Just remember, you've made it easier, others have made it harder. You're still adding plenty of value and advocating for much more.

@YTHandlesWereAMistake Год назад

Exactly. It would've been even worse if it wasn't for people like Louis. Let's hope the next 10 years, now thst some traction is established, will result in a step forward rather than backward.

@lows6427 Год назад

@@YTHandlesWereAMistake we can hope all we want but the sad reality is we are faced against a Trillion dollar company that is greedy & slowly I believe it will only get worse.

@manm5302 Год назад

@@YTHandlesWereAMistake Hope wont do a thing. Politicians on both sides are in the pockets of these companies. The only solution is creating a parallel economy by supporting companies like Framework.

@krto7663 Год назад

@@YTHandlesWereAMistake In 10 years if he keeps messing with New York they will Gary Webb him

@kopazwashere Год назад

There has been videos of him not wanting to share which suppliers he uses for chips & parts because of the exact fear someone will use same supplier and make it harder for him to source stocks.

@perochialjoe Год назад

The lower rungs just don't exist in pretty much ANY industry anymore. I don't know how anybody is supposed to make something of themselves when they aren't even allowed to start.

@jacobmansfield-go9fz Год назад

you'll have to work 5x as hard and get 50x luckier than the past few generations to get half what they did. Maybe less. I remember complaining about how hard it was just to land a job these days, and some boomer called me lazy and told me it should take a solid week of effort to get a job. Because that used to work. It took 1.5 years of solid effort to get a full time job

@alexlaw1892 Год назад

@@jacobmansfield-go9fz You need to learn to lie better. If you're brand new in an industry applying for your first job, your resume better show 5 years experience. Say you have experience you don't and certs you don't. No hiring manager has a clue about the positions they hire for.. Just a check list.

@jacobmansfield-go9fz Год назад

@@alexlaw1892 i don't see how that could get me anywhere but fired. that gets you past the hiring manager but not the first interview

@novamagician2425 Год назад

Wish i knew this after I graduated from highschool, literally every "entry level" job that i looked at wanted 5-10 years work experience for a job that is going to give me on the job training all the while paying minimum wage

@noteansylvan6051 Год назад

@@jacobmansfield-go9fz unfortunately being a deceptive bastard is how you land decent jobs now. If they like you and think you'll work out, you just need to be able to do the job at that point.

@charlesvincent4127 Год назад

Big tech companies don't want right to repair, because it prevents them from selling the latest and greatest gadget to people who would just repair their old gadget.

@aygwm Год назад

The trick is to just have fewer gadgets.

@Coldbird1337 Год назад

@@aygwm and learn to respect how it's used. A lot of the younger generation are going back to flip phone to escape social media.

@johnpettigrew83 Год назад

@@Coldbird1337 Smart phones are very expensive for youngsters.

@Gl00ten Год назад

@@aygwm that makes zero sense

@zachelkins1229 Год назад

They don't like right to repair because it defeats planed obsolescence and generally defeats subscription services.

@BobBilheimer Год назад

What I can really, and truly appreciate about Louis is the fact that he’s not simply bitching and moaning about higher expenses for himself. He has what he needs for a successful business. He’s actually bummed out that the path he took is no longer possible for anyone to follow afterwards. He actually gives a shit about others and not just being a selfish little prick from another company that we can name.

@IL_Bgentyl Год назад

Shows you he’s good at what he does. People who are scared of competition pull the ladder up.

@Coldbird1337 Год назад

@@IL_Bgentyl i thought they set it on fire and moved on to tossing a rope to whomever they think they can take advantage of

@connordarvall8482 Год назад

@@Coldbird1337 Nah, they give you a step ladder and convince you that you could definitely make it if you just jumped a bit higher.

@Donatellangelo Год назад

Yep.

@excelsior8682 Год назад

Sucks to suck. Get up off your ass and find a different path, the opportunities for making a living and being successful are staggering in this day and age.

@EgaoKage Год назад

The worst part, in my opinion, is that these "rungs" are being removed maliciously. It's not happening as a secondary effect of...some other thing. Companies are specifically targeting these rungs, to secure and extend their own level of control. If the point of contention were regarding something that they owned, fine. But it's not. The crux of the issue is something they _sold._ They no longer own the product. The buyer now owns the product. So, who should have the control? Obviously, the one who owns the product. This is like the railroad monopolies of the 19th century, all over again. And when that was going on, the government put a stop to it. Well, where is the government now? In the companies pocket; that's where.

@cruxal1576 Год назад

The government solved the symptoms before but never fixed things like lobbying that allow companies to worm their way back into control. If we want to prevent this they have to be prevented from using money to remove democracy.

@eddardgreybeard Год назад

This is also the video game companies trying to destroy GameStop and the used market.

@Armameteus Год назад

@@eddardgreybeard Same with the whole "always-online" DRM concept. It's basically borderline-theft. Even _if_ they were "kind" enough to let you own the thing you bought, all they need to do is shut down the servers to that thing and suddenly it's no longer accessible anymore. Not without some enterprising modder or software engineer recreating a spoofed version of those servers and providing documentation/tools for the average user to hook it into the game. And even then, it can only recover so much as these always-online servers invariably retain more and more content remotely that doesn't get downloaded to the host device, so once the connection to those servers is gone, so too is that content. And that's a best-case scenario - there are already countless games that run almost entirely remotely, with very little actually downloaded onto your device, so there's simply no means to restore it once it's gone without the developer willingly disseminating the game's data. And they almost never do that. Why would they when they can either make you pay extra for the same content later on via a re-release and/or push you to buy the new thing they want you to buy in place of the old thing they took away? They're always just looking for more ways to make you pay for less - up to and including making you pay for absolutely nothing, eventually. If it's borderline-theft now, it would be _actual_ theft later if they had their way.

@eddardgreybeard Год назад

@@Armameteus There's also talk that the way a lot of dlc actually works is it was already on the physical copy, but when you buy it you're actually purchasing the licensing to unlock it from the disc you already own.

@pearz420 Год назад

We all fell for the grift that the economy wasn't one big heist. Turns out it was. Don't ask questions about who the owners are, the particularity of them. Asking such questions is very dangerous.

@Freesorin837 Год назад

They've literally made knowledge irrelevant by taking away the means of turning that knowledge into something practical and useful. It's like knowing you need a hammer to drive in a nail but not being allowed to touch any blunt object to do it. What a nightmare.

@ZAPATTUBE Год назад

To them, your knowledge is dangerous.

@NobodyAsked-xh8cs Год назад

Blame the boomers for this practice. They take everything away from us and expect us to do the work for them anyways, and now we have THEIR children doing the same thing to us again. What a joke.

@mesta9997 Год назад

and ppl are still iSheep

@bitskit3476 Год назад

Your advocacy for the right to repair and Casey Muratori's "30 million line problem" both left a massive impression on me. I've been directing myself towards a career that'll give me the resources and skills to eventually start my own business that manufactures modular devices with well documented components. It's not about the money. It's the experience. It's exhausting. The software is all bloated overengineered garbage that wants to spy on you and nickel and dime you death. The hardware is all flimsy monolithic crap that's designed to break even worse when you try repair it and is outdated a year after it's released.

@rossmanngroup Год назад

Casey Muratori is awesome. My boss is trying to solve the 30 million line problem with an approach I can best describe as Terry Davis meets Howard Hughes. If you think this would be a cool thing to work on and get paid to contribute to, and are qualified to work on it, gitlab.futo.org/eron/public/-/wikis/FUBS email me - louis@rossmanngroup.com This is totally unrelated to the topic of the video but pinning just incase there are some other programming geniuses out there watching this video. You never know, I've found 3 already just from comments section...

@fuzzywzhe Год назад

Look, the idea of right to repair is a commendable one, but I live and work in Silly Con Valley and let me explain the reality of the situation. This is NOT a problem of corporations, it's a problem with consumers. If you buy something that cannot be repaired, you're an idiot. Stop buying crap you KNOW cannot be repaired, and boycott corporations that make it difficult or impossible to repair. Boycott them. The only reason people buy Apple products is MARKETING, they are terrible machines, they are substandard. I'm an engineer in Silicon Valley, it's ONLY MARKETING that gets DUMB consumers to buy them. Stop defending idiots. They bought this crap, f them.

@ramireini Год назад

It seems like it's not a coincidence that I watch people like Louis Rossmann, Casey Muratori and Jonathan Blow :)

@BenderBendingRodriguezOFFICIAL Год назад

@@rossmanngroup Was literally talking about Terry Davis when visiting my parents just a couple hours ago. Guy is legendary in his own right and an absolute genius.

@coolsunsgoldenclassics Год назад

I wish you good luck with your business

@rifelaw Год назад

The bottom rungs aren't gone. They just don't lead upward. They're just what you land on when your higher rung breaks. If you're lucky. The alternative is "splat". And it isn't just computer repair, it's everything, and it's been spreading for 50 years.

@the_expidition427 Год назад

It is the rungs in the middle are disappearing

@Khunark Год назад

a hamster wheel at the bottom

@wcjerky Год назад

@@Khunark The wheel needs assembly, but you can only build it on breaks. By the way, it's needed for your work.

@DjornNorthfield Год назад

My biggest pet peeve are the folks that pull up the ladder behind them. In this case, you've been trying to hold on to the ladder with both hands and it is crumbling on its own. You are good people Louis.

@chrism8180 Год назад

I don't even look at the ladder anymore. There's nothing up there, only steps to climb. And you climb them by stepping on others. PASS

@kellymoses8566 Год назад

People in their prime earning years in the 60s and 70s had a bigger share of GDP going to wages than any other time in US history. Then they got old and made sure to keep wages stagnant while productivity grew.

@geoffreyvanpelt6147 Год назад

More like those above Luis on the ladder, are pouring acid on the lower rungs, while Luis is trying not to get splashed in the spot he's in.

@dawidwtorek Год назад

Yeah. Thank you boomers.

@IlBiggo Год назад

@@kellymoses8566 Assholes exist in every generation. Good people too. Making it a boomers vs. zoomers thing is a naïf generalization.

@Nthsey Год назад

Until Louis said that YT removed the Oldest to Newest sort feature, I honestly have been going around assuming that it was individual creators disabling it on their channels. I’ve been on this platform since 2012, and noticed it disappeared a while back, but don’t remember any media coverage. Thanks for informing me Louis!

@jamesdeegan7365 Год назад

You have to set it to "all comments" it uses the "relevant comments" to hide comments it doesn't like, hence why you see only half of the stated comments, IE if it says 20 comments you only see 5

@gblargg Год назад

Now they want you to scroll endlessly while it loads more videos. Louis could put the really old videos in a playlist (if he hasn't alrady).

@MyVanir Год назад

@@jamesdeegan7365 OP wasn't talking about comments.

@Nessus875 Год назад

My theory is that RU-vid wants to constrain people's viewing habits towards the newest content because it is the most monetized. You could also imagine that keeping all these videos persistently available to view for free costs a lot. I wouldn't be surprised if they begin deleting old videos that don't meet a monthly view quota. Getting rid of methods to find those videos would make it easy for them to do that and face less backlash. Demand for viewing content has plateaued while demand for uploading content only increases, especially now that we have AI generated content undercutting the value of content in terms of the effort it takes to create it. To remain profitable RU-vid can: -Charge money to upload -Shepherd viewership to the most profitable content -Reduce overhead by deleting low profit content

@aceae4210 Год назад

so to be exact when they changed it, it was when they did the new ui (with all the more bubbler ui stuff) it was the same time they separated the videos tab into videos, live streams/vods and shorts looking at a post on reddit it looks like it was late 2022 they did it Nov 02 '22 was the date (dd/mm/yyyy = 22/11/2022), (mm/dd/yyyy = 11/22/2022) that is 117 days days ago (with 19/03/2023 being the ending date)

@teaadvice4996 Год назад

The black pill is brutal and real Entry level: 10 years experience required

@Demopans5990 Год назад

The skill required: Only existed for 2 years

@benjaminhenderson5025 Год назад

@@Dowlphin the solution is to move past capitalism.

@zoidberg444 Год назад

We're looking for someone 23-27 years of age with 30 years experience. Pay: $30,000 a year.

@Diegoshadow85 Год назад

@@benjaminhenderson5025 To what? To 100 mln deaths of communism gave us in XX century? You are like naive teenage girl "just move past capitalism!". Bro capitalism is what lifted literally billions of people out of poverty globally. Or at least say move to what. Yea it has bad parts and we can certainly try to enhance it.

@demonking86420 Год назад

@@benjaminhenderson5025 I don't think this system is capitalism anymore. Competition is a key tenet of capitalism, and preventing others from competing is what the bigger players keep doing.

@stevepople9366 Год назад

Louis, By raising the barrier to entry into the repair market Big Tech has covered their bases. They are in effect saying "You may have the RIGHT to repair BUT good luck trying".

@PWingert1966 Год назад

Samsungs 2300-page patent document and patent infringement claims against third party suppliers will seal the deal. By the time the patents expire, the products will be useless and too expensive to set up third party manufacturing for what then will be an obsolete product bricked by the vendor.

@ZAPATTUBE Год назад

EXACTLY!

@lostconciousness4255 Год назад

I was trying to start a repair business like you did 10 years ago. My repairs were apple phones. My repairs were good and everything worked and as soon as I gave it back to the customer and they connected to a mobile service Apple would, unknown to me at the time, DISABLE the customers device because the repair wasn't authentic either by no longer charging or just disable signal (based on repair). The worst part is they made it look like the independent repairs fault. At first I thought I fucked something up and refunded the first, then it happened again...and again. It essentially destroyed what little business I had as word got out that I was "ruining people's devices" and eventually I saw the writing on the wall and gave up. I'm glad you were successful despite the hurdles. I also loved the sort by old. Kinda sucks because it makes it harder to go back and watch older videos of a youtuber you just discovered which also hurts their views.

@Tudorgeable Год назад

RU-vid has only made bad decisions since Google bought them. Everything they've touched with the exception of 60fps videos has been made worse, removal of useful features, censors, subscriptions not working (so they can promote their shitty dopamine drip algorithm).

@anindividual3889 Год назад

I'm one of your farmer subscribers and even though your computer repair content really doesn't apply to me, it is appreciated. Everything that you have said about the economic conditions for starting up is completely true. It is incredibly hard to start out, I don't really care what you want to do. Everything is so expensive and hard to get. If I didn't inherit my farm ground, there is no way I can see that I could have made it work. It really sucks for a lot of people.

@Northman_Roams Год назад

All done on purpose. The idiots with the money around the world just want to control everything. Even here in the UK, all the medium and small businesses are being hit for six with no help. My own business went down during the worldwide scam as I simply could not compete and break even.

@thomas.parnell7365 Год назад

As a farmer then in the USA how are yourselves and your counterparts doing these days vs UK farmers seem to be regulated up to the eyeballs and barely making enough money to survive much less thrive.

@anindividual3889 Год назад

@@thomas.parnell7365 I personally am ok. We don't have a lot of regulations in the U.S. that I personally have to deal with. In fact, we could probably use a little more in some ways. My biggest problems are that water is getting scarce in my area and being wasted by municipalities. Another problem is extremely high land and machinery prices. I am fortunate that my land is inherited and I only have one machinery payment left. Many are not so fortunate as they are very indebted and are probably not breaking even. You can't really rely completely on agriculture in this country. You need an outside source of passive or semi passive income. It's a rich man's game now. Gone are the days of the small family farm. Big conglomerates and investors are buying stuff up and smaller operators are being pushed out. If you don't inherit a place free and clear, don't bother. Go get a better job in town.

@nopenope1244 Год назад

My current job/skills were handed down to me from my father and his friend. No way I could have bought a house in the time I did without them. Going at it on my own, I likely would never have been able to.

@nmccw3245 Год назад

Have you tried to repair your John Deere lately? It’s as repair restricted as any other computerized device.

@ArtieKendall Год назад

It's difficult to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps when they don't manufacture bootstraps anymore.

@ErrantObserver Год назад

be self-taught to make bootstraps, but good luck finding the materials

@beulahboi Год назад

@@ErrantObserver Let the peasants finance boot straps at 29.99% interest for 6 years!

@ryano.5149 Год назад

@@beulahboi Oh woops, looks like the boot companies paid off politicians and trademark lawyers. Now, just to get the schematics for a single bootstrap costs thousands of dollars. What?! You say you can't afford it? You're just being lazy! Oh, and don't try designing your own! The lawsuit we serve you with will ruin you!

@eathr349 Год назад

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, means to try to do something impossible. You try lifting yourself by your shoes, you'll fall on your ass.

@forthehonorforge4840 Год назад

Need boot straps? Send me specs like lenght, width, and mounting points. I got tools and material. I'll even make buckles if you want it real fancy.

@RareJay Год назад

I'm probably 10 years younger than Louis and I find myself in the same situation, I don't do repairs for a living, it's more of a passion thing and helping out friends in need, but It's certainly harder today to find spare parts and do actual work because companies are locking their technology in silos that only they have access. I came to the conclusion that the only way around it is to get pieces of tech that encourage or at least are not so scared of users thinkering with their product. Seeing Louis fight so hard for right to repair was energizing, it gave hope, it gave strength. Then seeing how much of it failed, seeing the system consuming what Luis fought for through blatant corruption and sometimes willful incompetence (the NY thing) was heartbreaking. I didn't expect the US to do any better, but damn. You're a good soul, Louis. In the end you will know that you fought for what was right, love you and your work.

@charleswidmore5458 Год назад

I used to do electronics repair. Nothing is designed so it can be repaired anymore. This is not an accident. They do not want the products to last more than 5 years. No sales to a guy who has a reliable product which is still working 10 years after he bought it after all.

@dejandokic7431 Год назад

Don't EVER feel that what you do is futile. You have helped educate thousands, spread vital information about R2R, and given voice to the ones coming behind you!

@Dre2Dee2 Год назад

Dont waste your breath, he WANTS to be miserable. He WANTS to complain. Face facts: he ENJOYS complaining and whining. When you see someone do something incessantly, every day, and every opportunity... it's because they like it.

@denofpigs2575 Год назад

@@Dre2Dee2 What the fuck are you on about. What you just said says infinitely more about your garbage mentality than Rossmann's.

@ibanobum Год назад

No, a habit is a habit, it doesn't mean people enjoy it, but that they are not under enough pressure to change. If tomorrow you ask, " Where is Louis's business today? " Just think back to this video, where he roasts how bad Apple devices are, and how much - we the consumers - are being ripped off by purchasing them; and how little everyone paid attention to his words. Also, without us buying said devices, where is the revenue for his business to exist ?

@denofpigs2575 Год назад

@@ibanobum I think he has said at some point that he'd be happy going out of business if it meant apple no longer had such garbage policies

@Draw4Dame Год назад

@@Dre2Dee2 Two things can be true. You’ve grown more annoyed by his manner than by the issue he keeps raising. Stop watching the videos and then maybe what he’s talking about (which has gotten worse as he’s talked about it) will go away. The “enlightened contrarian” shit is only useful as long as you have him to play off of so I imagine you’ll continue watching.

@tylersingleton9284 Год назад

The hardest part about "you will own nothing and be happy" is realizing it is true but that I am not a part of the "you". There are plenty of people who will never care about any of this and will just indebt themselves to buy a newer crappier device.

@spearamintwolf6225 Год назад

It gets worse than this. Their ultimate goal is surely have you rent almost everything so they can have a guaranteed revenue stream. Or as Klaus and frends put it, 'you will own nothing, and you will be happy'.

@huntersmith2106 Год назад

Literally this.

@kwyatt261 Год назад

Yup. It's pretty obvious out in my rural area an automobile will be only for the rich in about 10 years.

@albertusvanlubeeck9161 Год назад

It isn't even just the repair industry that has this growing "keep out newcomers" issue. Almost (& eventually) every industry is trying to move in that direction. Those at the top want to kill any chance for competition.

@MaxDad7 Год назад

This is definitely sad but true moment. I started my computer repair business in my area in 2014 and didn't focus on laptop and mobile repairs because, as you said, it was essentially impossible for somebody to start when they don't have savings or the credit score. I hope you and the rest of us are able to get right to repair moving in the right direction.

@dojocho1894 Год назад

In the old days you worked your way up inside the company....today they hire the top tier guy for 2-3 yrs from another company then he leaves with stock options loads of money and on to another company....why? In most companies that are large they dont want honest people seeing the scam that takes place...they want insiders who will keep quiet and play the game.

@PeterCiesla Год назад

That's what is being taught in business schools today, unfortunately.

@TheArklyte Год назад

In the old days they didn't have 100500 available resumes at a click of a mouse button, you know? You're assuming companies, CEO and HR departments were more human and honest "back then", but they weren't, they're just lazy and they didn't have the tools yet. Now they have them. Next piece would be decided by the outcome of "AI revolution", can we save our jobs or will the middle ranks be taken by de facto memory archives leaving only upper ranks you can be only born into and lower ranks with de facto labor camp living conditions?

@zs9652 Год назад

This system can't keep running forever. Its got to break sometime as no one will be dedicated enough to fix the issues at hand. What has our species done.

@RichSmithson Год назад

@@zs9652 Too many "rules" to just conduct business. Its why so much of the manufacturing went to Asia.

@cjlooklin1914 Год назад

@@RichSmithsonAre you seriously complaining about corporate regulations you fucking ghoul?

@christopherbuckley7544 Год назад

Dude, I started in the electronics repair business in 1987. I started my own "at home" shop in my parent's basement fixing pro-audio and some TV stuff. I worked for 5 years taking part-time work as well, in a VERY small town, barely affording room and board, until they kicked me out. I had to drop everything and move to the Big City where I lived in shared accommodations and had to store all my shop equipment (what little I had). Eventually I was getting lots of high paying work in the film industry, left that and became a paramedic...next thing 35 years has passed and I barely do any bench work having only a scope, dmm, function generator, soldering iron. I have NO IDEA how ANYONE could make a living doing this stuff, especially given the changes in, integration, manufacturing and the technologies themselves. Then there are the absolute lack of resources like when Philips sold off ECG which was a GREAT semiconductor parts cross reference catalog!!! And to top it all off, if I tried to get work with any "tech repair shops", they'll only pay minimum wage despite all I've gained in experience and knowledge in 35 years in MULTIPLE industries as well. Big corporations have totally F'd EVERYONE!!! They want to put EVERYONE OUT OF WORK, so we are all forced to buy their Shaydt when our stuff breaks, so they can keep us ADDICTED!!!! It's F'n SICK!!!!!

@deeder001 Год назад

Blah blah blah. You sound just like the blacksmith, farrier, saddler, and wagon/buggy maker when the internal combustion engine, 'iron horse or mule' and automobile were developed. BTW I also was an EMT/Paramedic and electronics hobbyist who taught himself how to repair and build PCs back when that was still a thing, which I did on my free time for extra money. I also lived the transition from having to turn away business from so many people wanting their computer fixed, upgraded, home or SOHO network setup, to nobody willing to pay even $100 when they can just go buy a new one. I replaced some of that income with data recovery for a while but even that is rare now, thanks to "the cloud" (and cheap external drives). So what? What are you proposing to stop it, prohibit companies from introducing newer technology? Form a "politburo" to set how fast technology can be improved or advanced? Prohibit consumers from buying a new computer but once in every 10 years? If all your skills and knowledge over 35 years cannot secure a good paying position, there are three possible explanations: location (i..e. you have to move to where those jobs are, they don't come to you), those skills are now largely obsolete, or there are a LOT more people who have those skills and knowledge than you seem to think (i.e. you're not as special as you may like to believe).

@roygalaasen Год назад

@@deeder001 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7Pq-S557XQU.html ??

@birddogne666 Год назад

@@deeder001 yadi yadi yadi. big f'n deal. So you like to tell people to shut up cuz it's progress. There is a difference between pulling the band-aid off quickly to allow the wound to heal and dealing with the emotional damage done. Progress is technological advancement / improved interfacing / new processes. What isn't "progress" is human greed forcing folks to bend to their whims because they think that they "own" the progress. Apple is trying to "secure" their products by making it only them capable of servicing them, which isn't even servicing but more like "oh, it's broke? buy a new one" Our society has been bombarded with this garbage for decades now. The reason it's not on your mind is you aren't dealing with the garbage being generated. Where exactly does that piece of sh@t go when it's not useful anymore? Oh yeah, shipped off to 3rd world sh!tholes. We are real good at moving the problem around without dealing with it. Oh, and you missed #4 reason for not getting paid well, the companies being approached/working for are scumbags who don't pay. "Just be happy you have a job", right?

@Cineenvenordquist Год назад

It's not the same fixing QAM and ATSC3 as colorburst crystals, but there could be a thing in there, getting the OTA and OTT to blend.

@OutsiderLabs Год назад

@@deeder001 You are a perfect encapsulation of why the west is collapsing. Progress at any cost, al long as at least one person is getting rich it doesn't matter how many others starve.

@terencewinters2154 Год назад

You are a great spokesperson. "Right to repair" is not only in the computer field but in farming and automotive. What they've done with their soulless corporate greed is made a rope ladder and pulled it up to their crows nest and given every solid citizen the finger, higher prices , and planned obsolescence. Your candor is so refreshing

@mikemorr100 Год назад

The major companies all exhausted every option they could to ethically increase profits. They drove their business model as lean as it could possibly go but the shareholders still demanded growth. So the companies have been tiptoeing into unethical and anti-consumer practices. It's a game of chicken. How far can they go before it all blows up? Can the administrators keep the backlash from coming until after they retire? But eventually it will collapse and we'll all be on the hook for it, while the upper class make off with everything.

@Darth_Bateman Год назад

Will we, though….?

@nunyabidness3075 Год назад

I’ve been a stockholder of various companies for decades. I never demanded a thing. Stop blaming “stockholders”, please. The guys who get to make demands are mostly investment bankers and fund managers and those types. They have power because they make the actual decisions on buying and selling for many stockholders. Some just buy and sell, but some actually do make demands. At least most of the demands are intended to increase returns, and that’s as they ought to be. The problem are the demands not based on returns, or are just not good ideas. Just like with healthcare, the people buying the products (in this case the stock, in healthcare the services) are no longer the big decision makers. It’s no longer a market. And, then there’s the way government policies make employee relations something everyone wants to avoid. EVERYONE! Even you! Don’t believe me? Think about it. Do you choose the store with the high price high service or the warehouse or the online store with the lowest price? If a company is going to decide whether to automate a function, they have to calculate all the costs and overhead of an employee. As a guy who sold products intended to increase productivity, it’s easy because the government has made you a really bad deal. To hire you, the employer has to deal with all sorts of taxes, fees, and regulations. If they can instead buy a machine to make the existing employees more productive, they will do it, and there’s no job for you.

@marksmith2913 Год назад

Gotta love the Free (for all) Enterprise system we have !!

@Phasma6969 Год назад

Let's not kid ourselves. They could do this in an honest manner with transparency, but they won't, and shareholders and the stakeholders that matter no longer care as long as number go up.

@Volkaer Год назад

Honestly, if the major companies took all the money they spend on entire departments that exist to try and make repair as difficult as possible, plan obsolescence and wall garden their products, and used HALF of that money on innovating new shit, they would instantly increase their profits further without breaking a sweat.

@LKonstantina915 Год назад

I once watched a documentary about a huge company (dont remember which exactly) that went bankrupt and someone in the comments said the company didnt have any junior staff, basically most employees being managers who did nothing and they couldnt afford new employees, otherwise they would have to fire the managers. Meaning they spent huge amounts of money to people who made the situation worse since they were the ones controlling and rejecting junior staffs' ideas. I think we have a similar case here. . . Lets fire the managers 😜

@eightsprites Год назад

I seen that problem myself. Its sad.

@Dennis0824 Год назад

Sounds like Twitter before Elon bought it.

@bria243 Год назад

@@Dennis0824 And all Elon did was make it worse.

@Thormedor Год назад

This is like most companies. While it's true that sometimes economics or just unforeseen events overrule whatever was planned, most other times it's management's fault. Because everything is the management's responsibility to fix and the only things they cannot change is the management itself. Which means, it's the only thing that cannot be fixed. Assuming the investors give no shits and just wants an asset to store their money in. Which used to not be the case and still a valuable business venture to actively manage a company. Except that you need like 500 million to start and need to give a shit about anything after you have that much.

@UtubeH8tr Год назад

Greedy pseudo intellectual idiots. Happens everytime.

@zergbergerdelemon9634 Год назад

You're totally right Louis, I used to work in IT/repair, I know how to fix so much stuff I loved the work. I used to be a sys admin, well companies realized they didn't have to hire sys admins, they could hire a managed IT services company, and that company only hired "T1 help desk" contractors at $12-$15, then expected them to do the job of sys admins, I decided I'll do repair. Got a job at a small repair shop, only to realize I'd get minimum wage unless I was able to do like cleanroom HDD recovery, quit. Tried to start my own company, actually be a contractor instead of just wrongly classified as one, realized I couldn't buy screens, ram and storage drives are soldered on and can't be purchased, sometimes even softlocked to the mobo and will brick it anyway. Financially I had no choice but go back to waiting tables, I make more waiting than I ever did in tech, but still I wish there was a path to success for people who aren't already Apple, Google, and Samsung. Really feels like they "made it" and scorched the earth behind them to make sure noone else would ever get there.

@nickpheonixify Год назад

it's funny that I was having this conversation with a friend just the other day. We looked at what our grandparents had, where they started, what they did and where they ended up. We then did the same thing for our parents and ourselves before trying to guestimate what it would be like for our kids when they finish school. The long and short of it is that you used to be able to start with almost nothing and make something of yourself via hard work whereas nowadays it's a lot harder and many of the pathways either don't exist or have the entry bar elevated so high that you need qualifications, years of training and cash in the bank to begin at the "entry" level. As an example, my friend's grandfather was an actual refugee. one of the ones who fled real people trying to kill him as opposed to the modern version he constantly complains about. He started with nothing but clothing and a big ass knife scar on his back. his first job was gardening. Not the modern type with all the equipment but the old type with manual tools and an old petrol mower he bought and repaired from the dump. From there he saved up his cash and went into repairing cars back in the day when a simple toolbox could solve most of your problems. He eventually rented a house and used its shed as a shop, expanding from that inst an actual shop and finally paid staff. unfortunately, as cars got newer and more complex it became harder to do the simple things he started with and he is now looking at the introduction of electric vehicles and more onboard software. He once said that all you had to be in the past to fix a car was "an idiot with a screwdriver" now you need to be a mechanic, an electrical engineer, a computer programmer and have a hundred specialised tools.

@AcmeRacing Год назад

I put myself through college while working full time and supporting myself doing equipment repairs. When I got done I discovered that to get the management jobs I was qualified for you had to do unpaid internships first. This didn't work for me. I'd been supporting myself for a decade, and I couldn't really take a different job _for no pay_ to check a box on my resume. I'm convinced it's a filter to weed out people who don't have family money. How dare you think you can just join management through hard work and ability? I even heard the owner of the company I was with at the time say "Who does he think he is? He doesn't have any money!" (He'd asked everyone for suggestions on how to improve the company, and I had offered some ideas about how to track costs vs. the revenues they produced ... that wasn't the level of suggestion he was after.)

@Crash_Knight Год назад

I'm in school learning to be an Auto Technician. My instructors always say mechanics aren't just mechanics. They're mechanics, electricians, welders, plumbers, computer nerds and cleaners. At this point I've crawled all over both hybrid and gas cars. I fully agree with them.

@AcmeRacing Год назад

@@Crash_Knight You forgot machinist and field engineer. Once something has been in the end-user's hands for a while, it's no longer exactly as it was built. Mechanics often come up with fixes for the weak points of the original design when things start breaking. (My 2002 Silverado had an AC line that dripped condensation on the distributor. Mechanics were putting a short length of foam pipe insulation on them long before the service bulletin told them to.)

@Crash_Knight Год назад

@@AcmeRacing Lets be honest, we could name every trade and occupation and probably still be forgetting something lmao. Air bags and radiator caps turn you into a safety advisor, putting tools and bottles of fluids in your trunk turns you into a pro tetris player, and I'm sure I could figure out some vague excuse to call myself a physiotherapist. But you're absolutely right about field engineer. The amount of janky on the spot fixes I'm gonna have to come up with is something I'm looking forward to.

@MikeBarbarossa Год назад

I did the same as Louis in HVAC repair. I started with nothing. You could get available cheap universal repair parts that work with many brands to do the repair. Nowadays, all manus use proprietary, solid state parts that you can only get from thier dealer to repair their brands. You can't start up like we did, from a small home garage and a mini-truck

@RasputinReview Год назад

When I finished university with a degree in IT, I was up against people with 3+ years in the uindustry for entry level jobs. After a while of being rejected i started studying certs to get me a leg up. After getting my A+ certification and starting on my Net+ cert, i went to a group interview. There were over 300 other people there. In a group of 10, every one else had between 5 and 10 years experiance, A+,Net+, Sec+, CCNA, etc. For a job paying LESS than a supermarket. Now I teach English in Korea. And they are complaining about shortages of people in IT

@chaoscarl8414 Год назад

After more than a decade as a programmer I've grown completely disillusioned with IT. The pressure is insane with unrealistic deadlines, constant crunch-time, and trash-code that gets pushed out because there's no time to do any kind of serious testing. And with the recent wave of layoffs, there's an awful lot of us out there, all competing for the few remaining jobs that haven't been outsourced.

@Tomas9970_1 Год назад

@@chaoscarl8414 May I ask something? Apparently there are very few people who know stuff about programming and at the same time understand some kind of other technical subject that needs to be implemented. Is there some sort of workaround for this or is for example railway software being made by people who have never seen a switch. btw. I'm not in the industry. The professional side of programming started to look unappealing during high-school and I didn't push it further.

@starfalcon2 Год назад

Once you learn a programming on a platform. Next year, they change a lot on the platform. You have relearn or reprogram everything.

@TheBanjoShowOfficial Год назад

What is it with literally every single person I ever hear talk about their careers that they go into IT? Like I don’t understand why everyone feels like programming is the way to go? Did Obama really brainwash everyone?

@zainm5919 Год назад

@@chaoscarl8414 I'm in college right now doing CS, a year and a half to go. I've was thinking of switching anyway but do you think that's a good idea? Especially with GPT making everyone suddenly realize how much progress has already been made with AI

@AndrewB383 Год назад

"How much have we accomplished" - More than you could know. You stemmed the tide, you slowed the progress of the people trying to kill repair shops. You didn't make forward progress, but you robbed them of their tremendous momentum in the wrong direction. Don't give up, don't quit, the world needs you.

@RaithUK Год назад

Your right the ladder has been pulled out from people and its not just repair.. as an electrician who qualified only a few years ago i have now closed my business as the over regulation, gate keeping and such has gotten so bad that i could never keep up with all the things they demand to keep qualified for a broad range of works and that ment i was loosing jobs due to bureaucracy. So given i was slowly going to endup in the red no matter how fast i try and keep up i had to give up before the company whent into debt. Every time you make progress they come out and shaft you... i give an example.. i use to fit smoke alarms.. then one day they say you can't fit smoke alarms any more unless you take this new course and pay the money. Corrupt ladder pulling & gate-keeping.

@cayminlast Год назад

Driving around in an old pick-up with a portable welder, making gates, grates and fixin stuff, trade skills with a cutomer and get your roof fixed, plumbing or 3d print work and a couple bucks now and then. Thanks Louis.

@krotchlickmeugh627 Год назад

Went from working for $350 a week under the table as a parts guy at a motorcycle repair shop. To running the shop in a year. 3 years later I started my business in my back yard in the cold. To an apartment with an rv parking garage down stairs to a 3,500 sqft shop that's so big I rent out a bay that pays my mortgage in 6 years. Keep going brother. The juice is worth the squeeze

@Volkaer Год назад

Sadly, a lot of western nations are mimicking the loicense central shithole UK, so you wouldn't be able to drive around in an old pick up with a portable welder any more without a 'loicense' everywhere soon.

@elimgarak1127 Год назад

Uncertified tradeswork can get you in trouble mighty quick where I'm from.

@rossmanngroup Год назад

Keep kicking ass sir!

@FORDultra Год назад

@@elimgarak1127sounds like you need to move.

@archgaden Год назад

It's getting worse, but we're better off with you than we'd have been without you fighting for us. This goes well beyond third party repair as far as those rungs disappearing. If things keep going down this road, I suspect third party repair will take a sharp turn back upward, as nobody will be able to afford new stuff even when it's available. The whole depression era concept of “Make it do or do without” will come back when people have no other choice.

@reaganharder1480 Год назад

From what I hear we're already starting to see this in automotive. Read an article that the average age of cars on the road is climbing, which I suspect is because increasingly people can't afford new cars and are deliberately choosing older and more repairable cars.

@ravenbarsrepairs5594 Год назад

Not only are the lower rungs drastically reduced, employers are far lest willing to grow their own talent from the bottom up. They expect to go out and got/have gotten the training for the role they're applying for on their own dime. Then, once hired, they can expect to never move up without further going out and getting training for a higher role. I will admit I will never own an Apple product(, built after 1995, jaded from experiences in HS with the G3.) I also don't use Windows. I've been using Linux as my primary OS since 2012, although I do still have a Win7 laptop used to program ham radios, and am looking at potential buying a new laptop for the same purpose, although it will never be my main system.

@nxtktube Год назад

Use virtual machine and USB passtrhough, no need to buy another pc.

@ravenbarsrepairs5594 Год назад

@@nxtktube The Op said his machine isn't powerful enough to run a VM.

@wumi2419 Год назад

Companies don't want having to invest into a worker only for them to pick up their stuff and go to another place for better wage. And workers don't want to be stuck in binding contract without raises. An impasse.

@noseboop4354 Год назад

You should see what's happening in the trades. Shops stop offering apprentice jobs to save money then complain non stop about lack of skilled workers. Now they either import workers from cheap countries or they convince the government to subsidize all their training.

@stevemuzak8526 Год назад

I want to switch to linux. It is time

@zuludude2 Год назад

It's like this with basically every single industry out there now. Constantly increasing centralization into a couple mega companies, only hiring people who already have experience, complete lack of entry level jobs to get said experience in a field, increasing costs and hoops for trying to start your own thing. Historically, when young people find they have no prospects for living a good life, that is when society collapses. This is the point we're at now, and I'm fairly confident that the next decade will involve a lot of institutions failing and violent upheavals.

@GHOSTTIEF Год назад

Whats the point let it die

@agravery223 Год назад

Yup, it's already started... many young people don't want to start families because it's too damn expensive. I mean our government is trying to force more kids on the population with their change in abortion laws but what they aren't getting is that young people WOULD want to be productive members of society if there was more opportunities and health care, daycare etc wasn't taking your entire paycheck... rent too.

@tissuepaper9962 Год назад

@@agravery223 man, maybe if one person could support a family with a full-time job, there wouldn't be a need for daycare. There's got to be something we could do to bring up the least amount of money anybody can legally be paid. If only...

@alexlaw1892 Год назад

I hope so

@SpinningSideKick9000 Год назад

After seeing my creative, hard working, brother do his best to hustle at work and find novel ways of increasing his value as a worker....and still struggling, I've all but given up on being anything but an Amazon or Walmart drone. The lack of control is almost worse than the financial hardship

@LilyGazou Год назад

Find some side hustles. Off the books, if possible. Yard and garden, small deliveries, selling stuff on Craigslist, training dogs, whatever you can get. If I was young I’d be looking to buy land with a group of like-minded people, get some trailers, growing some food, making beer and wine, etc.

@SpinningSideKick9000 Год назад

@Shadow Stalin For thr record, I have no negative opinions about Jewish folks

@kamilosxd678 Год назад

I think this is also true for e.g. Car Mechanics - heck, everyone with basic set of tools could repair a car on a driveway. Now you need a PC and a horrendously expensive set of CAR SPECIFIC (sometimes it's not even Manufacturer specific, but model specific) diagnostic tools

@badraven_indieauthor Год назад

One of the most depressing things I encountered while doing IT was that people, by that I mean the customers, did not value service, and were insulted when asked for payment. I would take the wrath because Apple would sell a poorly designed product. Some parts were impossible to find or obscenely expensive. Using a used part was risky, if something went wrong, they would blame you. I doubt I would do computer repair again. I'm not saying never, but I would prefer not to do it again.

@manictiger Год назад

Same. I hate customer service. I generally don't even like people. On the surface, sure, they're fine. But as soon as you get to know them, you learn they're either dumb, narcissistic, or both. It's just better to keep the circle of people I know tiny.

@unluckytourist Год назад

It's happening in my industry. All of the people who started from the bottom have removed the bottom altogether (going to a "gig' economy/casual model) and ensuring that people at their level now go straight in from university. Now, the prices are up, the service and quality down, but it also ensures that the avenue these individuals took is long gone. They call it "churn" - No one is going to be at these jobs long (at the bottom or top) and as such it's about as getting as much out of the business as fast as possible before moving on. Seems like that's sort of the logic everywhere at the moment.

@rijaja Год назад

Bad lighting: obvious green screen Good lighting: convincing green screen Louis lighting: real video that somehow looks green screened

@rightwingsafetysquad9872 Год назад

I’m glad you mentioned that the rungs being removed is intentional. Before that I was thinking that this happens in every industry. In the 1920s you could build a car just as good as Mercedes or Cadillac in your shed, of course not anymore. But if anything it has become easier to build the best car in the world from 1920 in your shed.

@kardoxfabricanus7590 Год назад

Pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps is literally impossible, they're beneath you, the term was made to mock people who told others to do impossible tasks. Everyone needs help with something.

@ButWhyMe... Год назад

Yep. Capitalism and neoliberalism sucks m8.

@pinip_f_werty1382 Год назад

@@ButWhyMe... If there's a better alternative you got tucked away in there, we'd love to hear it. I'm not married to capitalism, but it seems pragmatically better than the alternatives.

@iceink Год назад

@@pinip_f_werty1382 it isn't though, especially not in the long term

@pinip_f_werty1382 Год назад

@@iceink What do you suggest as an alternative? Central planning?

@stevengiuseppetti6555 Год назад

@@pinip_f_werty1382 social democracy or socialism are 2 better alternatives to capitalism just off the top of my head. Profits over people is morally wrong and evidently doesnt work.

@zachicusmaximus5551 Год назад

I definitely feel like a "manager of myself" instead of someone on the bottom rung. Supervisor has visited my campus maybe 3 times in the last 6 months. I go weeks without direction. My emails asking for supplies and about problems that need addressed at a management level go unanswered. No absolute policies, procedures, or directives. At this point I'd be happy for someone to just tell me exactly what to do but they won't. I can't both do the peon work and be analyzing the situation, especially when they won't let me have control over purchasing. I don't know what the end game is - there has to be some insider reason for them to act this way but I just don't get it. Management owns absolutely none of the issues but just shits on the bottom rung people when they get complaints.

@Coldbird1337 Год назад

Because that's how it worked in the past "your achievements are mine, your failures are your own problem" and people want to keep that going.

@wumi2419 Год назад

@@Coldbird1337 my favorite is "my profits" but "our losses" in respect to companies.

@Coldbird1337 Год назад

@Wumi24 more like: "when the company gets bigger it gets richer and when that happens we all get richer, right? Oh you want a raise? Yeesh buddy, i may be the owner but i have a responsibility to make sure we are not paying too much, we dont want to stifle growth right? We all gotta make sacrifices."

@randomness4989 Год назад

@@Coldbird1337 "in another note:have you seen my new yacht?:D"

@Cineenvenordquist Год назад

Ooh, defs a chance to red team your boss's boss.

@TheDMSCorp Год назад

I was extremely fortunate that a manager took a chance on me to get my foot in the door in the IT space without any prior experience (only worked at a grocery store beforehand but I had gotten a couple certs on the side and did lots of reading to build up my knowledge) and was eventually able to make a living wage and later get promoted. Literally every other job I applied to wanted experience, even for an entry-level help desk position

@jerrycan1756 Год назад

I somewhat-recently started a career in machining. It's like this there, too. The place I came the closest to working was going to pay 12$ an hour to do work unsafely, and I was willing to take it because literally nowhere else would hire me. A manager took a chance on me, too, and I got a nicer position where I get paid more and don't have to stick my hand in the machines while they're running, but I'm bitter about it because where I am is a rung BELOW what I'm actually trained for. This is so painfully easy that I spend half the day playing on my phone. They weren't taking a risk AT ALL, but I don't have x+3 years in the industry so apparently I'm only qualified to be a fucking porter as far as most people are concerned. By the way, before 2030, this industry is going to start shrinking multiple percentage points a year because people will retire out so frequently.

@Crash_Knight Год назад

I worked at a grocery store in produce for 2 years, including management experience. Eventually I had to change jobs, so I applied to wal mart. I had all my experience in my resume and they hired me on the spot, no interview, with a dollar an hour above everyone else in my department. Its not exactly the same, but it shows how much even crap places like wal mart focus on experience.

@EKaneGrant Год назад

What certs did you get prior to landing the job? I'm trying to get into IT myself and haven't had much luck

@LordofDestruction123 Год назад

Same here. Thought I was going to rot in retail forever. I'm still very much at entry level, but I'm able to afford to live, while working in an environment that isn't stressful. I have some friends who are struggling, and it just sucks that I don't have the means to help. I literally just got lucky while brute forcing apps on Linked In.

@brandondedmore87 Год назад

Being a person born in the 80's, I feel ya. It's a major reason I watch your videos, keep up the good work! I may have a degree in Industrial Automation, but my happy place is fixing things for others. We need more people like you!

@FinalAffliction Год назад

Big respect for doing it in the park for zero dollars rent. I’ve met a TON of people who think they need a million dollars to start a business. I can not wake them up. You are proof though. I have come to same conclusion as you about the bottom rung. I’ve done 3-4 different business where I’ve gotten success that quickly becomes impossible after. Do not delay an opportunity is a good take away, but the black pill is that eventually, automated cars, AI programming ect, the end game in 50 years is that no one will have a job unless you climb the ladder quickly right now. Scary

@StackableGoldMC Год назад

Anymore I feel like similar stuff is happening across the board. Not just in repair but in other lines of work, maybe not restrictions or next to impossible to get stuff, but stuff from above out of our control. I feel like this is a warning sign that it's going to be even more increasingly harder to pull yourself out of a rut if you end up there or even start there say from a family situation.

@Coldbird1337 Год назад

feels, I feel like this is an issue most politicians don't want to address because they know it would end with them not being rich anymore.

@TheBooban Год назад

Everyone in the developed world is getting over run by everyone from the third world in all areas.

@Toastcat890 Год назад

@@Coldbird1337 That’s how it’s gonna end anyway because as the populace loses its ability to properly support itself collapse will follow because the populace won’t have the money to prop up our current corrupt system.

@jefreymikkelson Год назад

Louis, your net impact on society is extremely positive and you have many years more to add to it. Don't get too discouraged on your journey; remain the anchor you are and know you have an army of supporters behind you. Thank you for sharing your journey and keep fighting the good fight!

@BeardGrizzly Год назад

Been experiencing this since I got out of college in 2008 and it's been worse with time. I just didn't have the experience or drive at the time and now that I do, it's just not feeling worth the immense debt and insecure future. I hate that companies and government policy want us to be sheep, but we are nearly forced to unless we get extremely lucky.

@CrystalMouse1 Год назад

I’m disabled.born disabled. I had to flee a DV situation fifteen years ago so I moved to the west coast. When I arrived there was help. I moved into a DV shelter. A month later moved into the YWCA. Was there for 16 months. Then got public housing just when my disability checks arrived. Those programs are gone!!! The Y closed. Public housing closed their waiting lists. If I moved here a MONTH later than I did, I’d not have survived to today. I’m EXTREMELY scared for those who are trying to get out of a dangerous situation

@jefferyharper5720 Год назад

And when I started in the 80s, I was getting $199/hr for replacing parts. By the late 90s, it was $25/hr.

@honkhonk8009 Год назад

Now in 2023, people would have litterally killed for $25/hr

@larkan511 Год назад

Props to you for making it as far as you have. I was involved in three PC repair shops between 2001 and 2017, and even with customers lining up out the door and great profit margins, it never really felt like we ever "got ahead" enough to really be able to take off beyond opening an additional store. I didn't handle the management side of things in terms of finances, just did the parts ordering and fixes. But knowing the people handling the finances were being honest with the money and seeing just how little cushion it provided was disheartening to say the least. Sure, customers were happy and things were repaired, but heaven forbid we raise our prices 15% to cover hiring more help or paying rent on a new building. Those loyal customers were all of a sudden not so loyal. Anyways, long story short, PC repair business sucks and I'm glad I got out while I still had time to salvage an IT career out of it.

@InarchusPrime Год назад

I think this kind of basic repair is important for a lot of reasons. When I was a kid, you could upgrade your computer, you learned a lot by messing around with components. It basically put me on a path to what I do now. I can do basic repairs at home, I don't always need to take things to a repair shop because I am generally capable, but it's hard to do repairs if the companies make their products essentially irreparable with toolsets that don't cost thousands of dollars, or as you say, not providing the parts we need to individuals or small businesses in smaller batches. If it's truly impossible to make a product that is repairable I may understand, but that's not what's going on here. So even though I'm not in business I definitely want my products to be fixable.

@Cineenvenordquist Год назад

You at least want to be able to boot into a virtual screen in VR if your screen broke.

@embracethesuck1041 Год назад

FANTASTIC topic. I've been screaming about this for a long time with my small circle. This is a major issue if the bottom rungs are getting kicked out of the ladder. Minimum wage, housing costs, food costs, insurance costs are killing EVERY sector.

@LilyGazou Год назад

Build the parallel economy and community. Pool resources.

@arcticcircle9178 Год назад

@@LilyGazou What does that mean? /gen

@tachobrenner Год назад

Minimum wage? You sure? It's so low, you wouldn't take less anyway, because you couldn't survive.

@776281 Год назад

How much worse would it be without Louis's efforts. So many don't realise just how far we have already gone down this rabbit hole of throw away everything, how much it has changed in a single lifetime.

@FrankMonday Год назад

Destruction of community and our ability for collective action seems to be one of the primary objectives of the folks calling the shots these days. Wait… That’s kind of always been true. “Keep fighting the good fight Louis!” If you don’t, who will? ❤

@manictiger Год назад

This country is not like the rest of the world. There will always be a fight. The only question is, can we still fix this with the pen, or will it resort to the sword?

@pearz420 Год назад

@@manictiger What fight are you talking about? More confused boomers milling about the Capitol? France is historically more prone to civil unrest than we are. Time to wake up and smell the Technocracy. You are standing at the epicenter.

@pearz420 Год назад

The age of people throwing around terms like "community" and "collective action" as if they ever reflected anything more than their insipid political ambitions is over. This pretentious shit has gotten us nowhere at best, mass graves at worst.

@tachobrenner Год назад

@@pearz420Eh, I wouldn't give up on that.

@runswithraptors Год назад

@@pearz420 lol you think a community only exists in a political sphere? 😂

@profusemoose1488 Год назад

I love your prosocial attitude Louis. Never give up, we need people like you fighting the good fight and speaking the truth.

@frankcoley1537 Год назад

The knowledge of electronics is going south. For NO reason other than big companies being greedy. They forgot where they came from. They want a future where people are dumb consumers. It's awful . They forgot what it's like to be where you're at right now Louis. They need people like you out there.

@SeeJayPlayGames Год назад

Apple is the worst, it's the focus of his repair efforts, and they've effectively stymied repair efforts for decades. They didn't start out like this, with the first couple of computers, but ever since Woz left and they released the Macintosh they've been making things harder to repair, seemingly on purpose.

@tissuepaper9962 Год назад

@@SeeJayPlayGames I mean, for fuck's sake, the original Apple computer was a bare circuit board that you had to populate yourself. It's clear their founding philosophies were thrown in the shitcan when the Woz walked away.

@ribertfranhanreagen9821 Год назад

It's more of fear honestly, to monopolize the market so there will be no competitor mean company keep living on

@pearz420 Год назад

Megacorporations don't need anything. They already own everything. People like Louis do not make them more money. They save people like us money. This isn't David vs Goliath. This is David vs a full container ship.

@HBon111 Год назад

I think of all the people out there who just gave up along the way because hard work is almost disincentivized these days. Louis, you are a rare breed. Glad you found a modicum of success doing what you do. You've told us how some nights you questioned yourself why you kept going, because of the craziness of it all. But I'm glad you did, hope you are even happier in the future.

@JodyBruchon Год назад

It's easier than ever to do this stuff thanks to RU-vid and the internet. Tutorials are all over the place and cheap tools are everywhere. I bought a hot air/solder rework station for $80 on Amazon and that's one of the most expensive tools I own. The problem is not people doing hard work; it's more likely to be people not trying in the first place. Younger people are generally so sucked into trash platforms like Tik Tok and Instagram that they don't know how to break free and watch a 20-minute video showing how to take apart a laptop.

@nathannagle5382 Год назад

Glad someone else is mad about RU-vid removing the oldest video search

@chumauyamadu2053 Год назад

Almost thought i was the only one peeved about this

@FreshApplePie Год назад

I was pretty surprised when someone like Wranglerstar of all people made a video talking about how, no; kids certainly do not have things easier these days. Making your way in any kind of industry is harder than ever because of things like this. Millenials, Gen Z, they have a point when they're saying work sucks these days. Their prospects for the future are non-existent when all they can get with a higher-education degree is still just a dead-end job at retail or fast food. When someone like that, who owns a homestead, rebuilt pretty much his own life from scratch can straight up tell you that yes, life is actually much harder for the average young person to get anywhere on their own backs with, and that pulling yourself by your own bootstraps is no longer possible, society has messed up in a big way somewhere along the line. Not that a lot of us weren't aware of it already, but there's a lot of waking up to do when it comes to the differences between the society Boomers grew up in versus a massive and ever growing demographic that are not just ready, but overqualified to work, and have nowhere to go.

@ChadAV69 Год назад

Hey, Louis. Don’t feel too bad. It’s like this in literally every industry in America. In every industry, there’s already a business that’s serving the bottom dollar people. The only way to compete is to get seriously skilled and have some crazy angle to hit the industry at, a shit ton of hard work and luck. On the employee side of things, for some reason businesses refuse to offer training. They want someone to walk in with 5 years of experience so they can hit the ground running. It’s so weird.

@danfromaplace Год назад

Back in 2014 I started watching your videos, I was 12. Every single dime I've made I credit to your videos, I'm 20 now and run a kinda successful business in Houston working for multiple shops doing microsoldering. It's tough in the middle run of the pack out here especially when I'd love to grow quicker, but I love this job and wouldn't trade it for the world! It's still possible to get started there have been a few guys that have shown me the ropes in the local market, you just have to be very lucky and willing to put up with an impossible amount of bs

@mrtwrecks Год назад

Houston here. Would love to know the name of your company so I can bring you some business whenever I need something done. I’m trying to switch to only supporting local businesses. If you could drop me a message or something, that’d be awesome.

@rustledjammies8769 Год назад

I completely agree, the "Oldest to Newest" sorting feature was a good one and I was super annoyed when they go rid of it as I used to use it often!

@JacobthePoshPotato Год назад

I didnt even know about the concept of "right to repair" before I found your channel. It opened my eyes to the ways corporations force planned obsolescence and increase e-waste.

@KniFz Год назад

I love this kind of content. You really describe a problem we have in a great way, that's easy to understand and sums up a lot of issues in a concise way. Your definitely smarter than the average new Yorker lol

@pavman42 Год назад

The only real solution is for manufacturers (or a coalition of repair companies to form a cooperative) to manufacture knock off parts that are identical to the oem parts and make it available to the masses. It actually sounds like an opportunity, even if it would be risky, taxing and expensive.

@davidr9876 Год назад

The manufacturers will then make their machines brick if they detect a non OEM part......for your safety

@inthefade Год назад

It just isn't viable to manufacture at the small scale yet.

@bbrainstormer2036 Год назад

Patents would be a nightmare

@Demopans5990 Год назад

@@inthefade The trick is to somehow get the Chinese to buy the same stuff. A great deal of products are manufactured in China, and a common manufacturer in China will produce ~10% to 20% more than is needed only to ship the most in spec. The rest usually ends up in the grey market, still good enough for common use, which is why Aliexpress seems to have everything and why China has a vibrant electronics reuse industry

@davidgoodnow269 Год назад

I'm *sure* that is _illegal_ due to patent violations.

@_audacity2722 Год назад

It's nice to see the people who have been saying "wHy dOnT yOu jUsT wOrK fOr yOuRsElF???" FINALLY wake up to what has been going on for the last 10 years. Took you guys long enough. Finally couldn't pretend any longer that people have the same opportunities you did.

@nopenope1244 Год назад

Even if you do make it, I have a feeling that WEF policies are going to crack down on your business. Right now I’m living ultra low key. I’m ready to sell everything as soon as I see the tides of US policy start to shift to joining global governance.

@_audacity2722 Год назад

@@nopenope1244 US has been the enforcer of global governance since post-WW2.. Now the chickens come home to roost and you will escape to a country that you probably demonized for years. I have no sympathy for Americans that supported all this shit for decades. Who supported the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, the War on Communism, but never supported a war against poverty, illiteracy, or ignorance in their own backyard. Who cry about the WEF when they are the ones being exploited but not when their companies were the ones doing the exploiting in Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil. It warms my heart to see China building a new IMF and becoming a world leader by giving better deals to the people that USA forces into submission. Their actions in the last 20 years have proved they are less bloodthirsty and war-hungry than the US government and its people. I hope you know that China will be a well-entrenched trade partner with the countries you will most likely escape to 🙂

@jameslivermore4481 Год назад

@@nopenope1244 Hi random internet person. Just curious, have you looked into Asia/Middle East. Dubai in particular has a very attractive tax structure aside from high living cost. I'm just looking for a place to allow me to open a business without dragging a blade across my neck in the process.

@thegenericguy8309 Год назад

@@nopenope1244 The US is spectacularly xenophobic. This would never happen

@computersales Год назад

I think you are underestimating the skill and ingenuity of people who want to do work like this. I have a friend who's been doing crazy repairs for years now and he doesn't have even a fraction of the tools you have at your disposal.

@tgheretford Год назад

It is happening across the board, in jobs, hobbies and society. And we wonder why there are increasing number of NEETS (or the Japanese term, Hikikomori) who live with their parents, playing video games and failing to launch. And I fear it will only get worse as AI, automation and the as a service model takes jobs, ownership and freedom away from individuals and SME's to large multi-national corporations and an ever expanding Government. I was made homeless in 2002 and I would dread to think what would happen if I was in the same situation now. Because all the help and opportunities have gone.

@kopazwashere Год назад

you're wrong. you can still get service/maintenance jobs with as simple as technical/vocational degree. People just don't want to do the hard work, they just want to sit in their chair and code. Either that, people are just gossiping code so much they dont know there are industries where you physically have to be present (including the ones they code software for)

@OutsiderLabs Год назад

@@kopazwashere Starving is a lot harder than working, so I suspect you might be blaming the victims of a collapsing economy instead of the actual causes.

@GHOSTTIEF Год назад

Yup its happening even in china where the young are just checking out of the workforce

@OmegaF77 Год назад

@@kopazwashere lol this dude right here. Good luck getting an entry level position that doesn't require you to be a recent college graduate with 40 years experience.

@TwistedFireX Год назад

@@kopazwashere why do idiots like you get to own luxuries when i have to bust my ass just to survive

@TH3DUDE0075 Год назад

I feel this. I made a ton of money in high school replacing iPhone screens, but then Apple started glueing the damn things together and was such a pain in the ass it wasn’t worth bothering with as a side hustle.

@adamsuder1999 Год назад

Louis, the way you treat people and the way you run your business incorporates principles that are universal to all aspects of life, not just repairing electronics. Your story is inspirational for any aspiring business owner, or at least for any young man like me, trying to become the best person I can be.

@karmatraining Год назад

I used to love messing around with electronics and still build my own computers. I know why big companies do this (it's basically the only way to make the things smaller and lighter), but the sacrifice of repairability is awful. Not sure if it's a price I want to pay anymore. Ppl say "Oh well don't buy those products if you don't like it," but the reality is that we are entering a zone where it's becoming increasingly difficult to even exist without these products. Imagine trying to find a job without a mobile phone, for example.

@bruciekibbutz2947 Год назад

its not a sacrifice, its by design. you will own nothing.

@tachobrenner Год назад

Wait! Have you heard of Shiftphones? Or Fairphone? They are repairable. Shiftphone even allows more granular repairs. They don't use modules, they use actual parts.

@wyattw9727 Год назад

This is late stage capitalism at its finest. The mom and pop shop era is dead and buried. The ability of a working class person to become their own entrepreneur is dying/dead depending on the industry. Wealth gets consolidated, businesses stratify, and eventually all that's left is people becoming employees for shit entry level jobs where the idea of being able to independently own a small business is nothing more than a pipe dream. You either got in before the door slammed shut or you're left outside holding the bag forever. Really that's all it is. The tech moguls, and moguls of other industries, consolidate their positions to control their industries and thus freeze out anyone who wasn't able to establish themselves before they used a mixture of political bribery and market dominance to establish a monopoly or near monopoly. You want to start a small business of tech repair? Door's shut, welcome to working an entry level job and maybe climbing up the ranks to become a manager for a single location someday. Same story in most other fields. You best start believing in Cyberpunk Dystopias - you're in one.

@chaoscarl8414 Год назад

The door's shut on a lot of things now. And yet, for some strange reason, the majority of people seem to be okay with it. Years of pro-capitalist and anti-socialist propaganda has really left its mark.

@ootmaster1 Год назад

i guess " late stage capitalism" is code for endless government market intervention, and unethical monopolies "which only exist through government market interference"

@gulmulmiah1919 Год назад

Thousands of us appreciate all the effort you putting into the industry. It's not going unnoticed.

@unsupportiveperson7724 Год назад

That's why I gave up after highschool. My peers told me everything that I needed to hear. Their parents programed then to self destruct and all opportunity gone. To satisfy the Boomer era for the sake of endless growth and greed.

@JohnS-il1dr Год назад

Yes let's blame the parents for our failures. That's been done by the teens and 20 somethings since the beginning of civilization

@ShitWrangler Год назад

@@JohnS-il1dr I agree, it's called the boomer penalty: excess mortality among usa/canada boomers. one of the few generations that can be documented going backwards while forward, a fascinating group of guinea pigs. All the information required was harvested from them, and now earth can complete.

@RichSmithson Год назад

@@JohnS-il1dr You have to admit the older generations obsession with owning masses of investment properties has caused huge issues in society for younger generations who now can't get on the property ladder at all.

@shdowdrgonrider Год назад

@@JohnS-il1dr ok, i will go get a summer job then and get prometed to manager after a year and buy my first home off of that year's income. the real truth of the matter is the older generation has neglected investing into the generation that would replace them and instead spout worthless non-advice such as "just pull yourself up by your bootstraps like i did" these same boomers then also complain about the ideologies and radical movements these teens and 20 somethings learned and joined while at the college education they were told was mandatory to having a comfortable living.

@chico9805 Год назад

@@JohnS-il1dr Except that we actually have a right to complain. Boomers squandered the blessings, given to them by their forefathers, and left nothing for us. Almost every social and economic issue we face today, started in the 60s, when boomers first entered politics.

@jimster1111 Год назад

me and my buddies were talking today about how even trade jobs are becoming not worth it. gotta work your whole life to maybe afford some crumbs one day.

@zesky6654 Год назад

Say it louder for people in the back.

@remrem-gx3ml Год назад

a friend of mine lost his parents at 16 and had to start working. he was worked his ass off, taken classes, taken every piece of advice hes been given but the guy cant catch a break hes 28 now and still working entry level jobs. he cant afford to quit and he cant afford school. no one will help him. he has TONS of skills but he cant even start his own business cause he cant afford it. cant get a loan because he has bad credit from understandably struggling when his parents died. dudes totally screwed not because of anything he did but because no one will give him a chance to do more even though hes the smartest guy and kindest i know.

@mikeyjohnson5888 Год назад

oldest to newest was such a good way to find older creator content. I miss it so much

@chrisjeanneret5091 Год назад

I'm tempted to make a joke about the American dream: anyone can climb the ladder while pulling it up behind oneself...

@andre-le-bone-aparte Год назад

America: Pull yourself up by your boot straps and climb the economic ladder Louis: There are no more boots or straps, and the ladder has been pulled up

@Coldbird1337 Год назад

America: you are just lazy, this is why you young folk don't know how to so do anything! Louis: You literally made it impossible to gain experience by removing entry level jobs, and consistently avoid paying taxes that could be used for free higher education that people need to do the job you want.

@ErrantObserver Год назад

they're coming for your feet next

@rossmanngroup Год назад

i didnt say that. i quit higher education because it seemed like a waste of time for me.

@joshroolf1966 Год назад

@@rossmanngroup Autodidacts don't need that malarkey, we're too busy whittling boot straps out of nothing..:::

@chaoscarl8414 Год назад

@@rossmanngroup "i quit higher education because it seemed like a waste of time for me." Most education is, to be honest. Excerpt that you need that damn piece of paper to show that somehow you made it through university.

@SebastianSkadisson Год назад

It's the same across all IT. The "from hobby to profession" path only works if you find a big and/or successful company that teaches you. If you don't have that you aren't able to go anywhere anymore.

@annoythedonkey Год назад

I just got my last business permit last week, launching this company has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done. It’s been harder then beating cancer

@dipanjanghosal1662 Год назад

Its just getting harder to make money in general as time goes on for the common man. 15 years ago it was much easier to start (and succeed) at a small business. It was also easier to land a high paying job 10-15 years ago. Nowadays, everything is so much more competitive...and difficult in general. The mega corporations are richer than ever though.

@TheRealScooterGuy Год назад

The ladders in many -- perhaps most -- industries have turned out to be rope ladders, and those who reached the very top are actively pulling up the ladders behind them, trying to knock off those who are still at lower levels, and keep newer climbers from starting the climb at all.

@tissuepaper9962 Год назад

Venture capital grifting can only go on for so long, eventually the whole damn ladder is going to fall.

@echohunter4199 Год назад

After years of watching your channel I wonder how many young people have been inspired and motivated to follow your path? I remember when my young nephew who was 15 at the time found he could repair some electronics and make a few nickels. But what surprised me is that he had watched a few of your videos and learned there as to what he needed to do. Fast forward and he’s doing fine with his own business.

@jakesto Год назад

The hardest part is that we have no idea what the world would be like if Louis never fought for us. Despite the fact that things have gotten worse, we have no way of telling how much worse would be. Louis's impact isn't measured by how little progress has been made, but instead by how many people have watched his videos and been encouraged or inspired. It is measured by how much Louis has fought to slow these companies from taking over their entire respective markets. I don't think one man, or even a whole team, is enough to reverse course, though. This goes to the very core of how our government is structured. I don't think Louis will be able to save us without changing how the system itself operates.

@dingusdangus9299 Год назад

"Number One: In 1945, corporations paid 50% of federal taxes; now they pay about 5%. Number Two: In 1900, 90% of Americans were self employed; now it's about 2%... It's called consolidation; strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals. With taxes, this can be done imperceptibly over time."

@techbio 28 дней назад

I knew those boxes existed (never used one) but since I usually just hive off hdd recovery to the experts if I'm unable to read it, I never really considered getting one, but my mind has just been blown with the idea of using them for other things like lcd screen replacements, and actually a heap of things come to mind, phone repairs and other stuff that is a real pain to redo if you weren't appropriately obsessive about making sure no dust gets in.

@Tuppoo94 Год назад

This same phenomenon can be seen in many fields. There are few entry-level jobs available anywhere these days, because the level of productivity that's required in order to run a profitable business has been pushed (In many cases artificially) so high that it's practically impossible to reach it as a beginner. Manufacturers deliberately design their products so that it's impossible to replace individual broken parts, so one has to replace for example the entire screen assembly, which costs so much that an independent guy's rate won't be competitive with "official" repair shops' rates. Add to that the nonsense with spare part availability and components being paired at the software level, and it's like trying to climb up a tree with your feet first.

@royalphynix8233 Год назад

Your right to repair has inspired me (product designer student ) to create products that can be repaired easily with fair access to information/parts

@kilowhiskyforge4337 Год назад

You're absolutely right, 10ish years later and it's only harder to get into the business. Almost feels like some elements of the state and federal governments just don't want you as a consumer for some weird damn reason

@user-zf3mb2rh9n Год назад

Imagine how much harder when they create CBDC’s with all the changes in taxes and regulations that you can never work around

@SeattlePioneer Год назад

I'm familiar with a young man who wanted to become an electrician, but no one wanted to hire someone with no experience. And state licensing laws required documentation of required numbers of hours worked before you could take a test for licensing. So this guy started his own electrical business. He didn't have a license, so he hired an experienced an electrician to work for him teach him what he needed to know and to document the hours he worked until he could take the test and get a license. He also did the business portion of the business, bidding jobs, collecting bills, buying parts and such. I thought that was quite creative.

@johnleff7119 Год назад

Other industries (heavy on monopolies) have this thing where the accuracy of parts/colors are on a scale to be graded. The customer pays more for a thing that is more precise/clean/closer to the reference drawings, some vendors even manage to make the best quality parts cost more by giving them a particular spec name, i.e. this is ultra supreme grade, someone at our company took the time to measure this part with calipers, someone on a colorimeter machine spent hours to get it the exact same color as the reference part manufactured x years ago-guess what? There's a quality assurance person, and government inspector involved now, the government inspector has to be called in to look at these parts to make sure the part the QA approved is exactly what the reference drawing conveys. They found a way to add an additional tax (for the government inspector/agency) for the thing being made. It's something that's been normal for years on cars, and airplanes parts, but you should realize now that someday computing will be this way too, bureaucracy doesn't just come in the form of the government offices bugging you for tax documents, someday they'll send someone who's never opened up a computer in their life to approve your repairs/manufacturing. The beginning of this started with customs/atf seizing what they believe are "counterfeit screens", it becomes a hodgepodge of excuses to drive up the cost of everything and put money into the hands of government middlemen/law firms.

@aaronj08ar Год назад

I've noticed this with automobile parts, its infuriating!

@kyleshockley1573 Год назад

Government agencies making things needlessly difficult and expensive? That's unpossible.

@TheSkunkyMonk Год назад

Seen this coming years ago, it started with security screws, then hidden latches and these days they might as well just pot the entire device. So glad I got away from repair, did enjoy it for a while though, nice getting to see lots of different hardware.