'UPSIDE DOWN': Mike Rowe sounds off on the vilification of work 

I wish they would put shop class back in school. Our youth need this class.

Started my own business last year. It's physical, menial, blue collar and it's better than any office I worked in.

Once upon a time if you didn't work you didn't eat.

I’ve worked overtime hours, when available, for 35 years. The best raise I could ever hope for was 3%. During bad times we went 3 years without any raises, even tho the bad times ended 6 months after the contract was ratified and business was booming again. We have to trade our time/lives working 56 hours a week to maintain against normal inflation. Yet the company makes huge profits. I think we’re suckers that were told our whole lives that hard work pays off. Of course we were told this by a system that was literally put in place to produce worker bees when the industrial age began. Show up to school/work every day and try your hardest to get the job done. I think that we are all cattle being processed for the benefit of those in charge. Elon Must said.. Never work for someone else because you will only be a cost to them and costs must be kept down. That’s the truth of it all.

Hey ! Let's put "America First " , by telling Joe to SUPPORT OUR law enforcement .

Rules for thee but not for me

Demented Dementia Joe!

Bernie hasn’t worked a day in his life

I used to work a 4 day week. 4- 10hr days. Loved it! Unfortunately not all jobs are built that way. Work a 5 now!

I remember Donald Trump saying, the longer young people are allowed to stay out of work the more they would come to vilify being forced to work and labor all of one's life

Dear Mr. Rowe -- you speak, think and represent life's TRUTHS!! I would love you as our US President!

Love Mike Rowe, we need people to do all kinds of jobs. I came from a family that were in the labor, carpenter, and other trade professionals. It also feels good to do physical work! Trade Schools are not being offered as a Good Career. My son-in-law works for the water company in MO, as a construction worker. Last year he made over $160.0000. He did have quite a bit of overtime, however that is a respectable income!

Workers in our local supermarket made the same hourly wage in the 80’s that they’re making now.

We have greedy CEOs who are now making one to two thousand times what their workers are. The American dream is slipping away because unbridled capitalism does not work. There needs to be limits on how much more the corporate members get compared to workers.

We should have 32 hour work weeks. We are the only country where we work 1000,000 hours a year and get a week vacation it’s ridiculous times have changed and companies need to realize this.

Businesses used to share the wealth with their employees, they have perfected the art of working you to the bone and giving nothing in return... The modern day work environment is currently a cringe inducing hr nightmare hellscape... It's no wonder why people hate working....

I spent over 30 years in the building maintenance trade doing HVAC, plumbing, carpentry and more. I had a license in HVAC and worked hard. Ended my career as maintenance supervisor over a large facility and never regretted the path I took. Yes, I have an associates degree and owned a business early in my career but ended up doing maintenance and loved it!

America stay working hard and strong it’s how we are number one… for now!

Growing up if you wanted to eat you worked enough said

Hey ! Let's put "America First ", by admitting we are FREE to Work ! 😊

I love my plumbing company! Shout out to Barron Plumbing here in the Pacific Northwest, they're great!

Bernie wants to work 4 and remain at 32 hours with the same pay. Meaning companies that run 7 days a week would have to hire more people at the same rates to work the other 3 part time. So nearly twice the payroll, That would prob bankrupt some smaller companies or it will be trickled down to the consumer by way of price increases. Don't we have enough price increases right now? Even cheap food like Ramen has doubled in price in the last 3 years.

You need to work to help avoid mental issues

As an introvert I agree . I find sanctuary in work. Accomplishment is fun.

I worked for many years and payed into retirement, now I can do what I please comfortably retired. Sadly the younger generations wil spend whats left, put the nation into further debt and will not only work tell they die, but it will be a short life with severe hardship.

Mike Rowe. What a blue-collar hero. He comes out against four-year degrees and calls them a scam, while he, himself, has a four-year communications degree and never worked a blue-collar job in his life. Perhaps he should do another video complaining about excessive SAFETY, of all things, in the workplace. I say "another," of course, because he's already done one. But that's Mike Rowe--always looking out for working men and women, right? We certainly can't allow something like worker safety to impact corporate profits. Sure, they're making billions, but it's the principle, right? And, besides, as everyone (Well, "everyone" meaning Mike Rowe) knows, every second spent keeping workers from losing lives and limbs increases the price of consumer goods. Can't have that. Now, naturally, he's not eager for people to get hurt or killed. He's just saying, "Sure, sure--try not to get hurt, but...could you hurry it up a bit, pal? The clock is ticking."

Skilled labor should triple the cost of working on the rich. When called to work on someones heat or air conditioning system, charge the rich tripple!

I want to know why infants aren't put to work the moment they slip out of the womb. People say things like "They are far too weak and helpless" or "Are you nuts? They can't even CRAWL," but I think they're just LAZY and SPOILED and that spoiling starts in the womb. The mothers probably played MOZART to them or rubbed coco butter on their bellies or something LIB like that. GET TO WORK, YOU LAZY BABIES!!

I worked 48 to 50 hours a week

I think people are TIRED of not getting paid what their time and effort is WORTH!! I know I am! I'm college educated and in my mid fifties bit can find anything worth my time!! IM HAPPY TO WORK FOR A DECENT PAYCHECK AND SATISFACTION AT THAT JOB!!

There is no vilification of work except by the corps, they dont value it or want to be pay for it. We are acting just like them and choosing the optimum investment/reward scenario. Mike is implying that we should have ideals and go into skilled trades manual labor because of that, well, when the corps have ideals like paying a living wage, so will I.

My apprenticeship in Germany was 4 years. Now when I immigrant to Canada in 1976 I went to trade college again got there certification what is not close what is in Europe but was just an ticket to Ride.

I agree with everything he said. However I would take it a step further to mention that wages have not kept up with cost of living, while senior management in companies have skyrocketed by 500% over the last 30 years. It’s not just work ethic alone that Rowe stresses is the problem, but people aren’t as motivated because they realize how expendable they’ve all become. Soon enough most will be replaced by AI anyway. Everyone is depressed.

So true. Work is often not fun. But the alternative leads to misery and low self worth. Hard work no matter whether it's teaching, construction, nursing, bus driving or custodial deployment, is noble and good for the soul. Just look at those who have been lured into the trap of cradle to grave government assistance. Their worlds are filled with strife and rot. They are not happy people.

I believe that so many are making excuses for a lack of work ethics. I’ve worked for a paycheck all my life with a 40 hour week. It’s not my business as to how much money the company makes as long as I get my paycheck. I’ve never slacked being good at a job is important. However young people think they should start at the top, make the big bucks and lay back. Work ethics haven’t been taught to many young people, that’s the parents job!

It is and always has been a "punishment and reward" system, the problem nowadays is that the '"punishment" part has been increasing while the "reward" part is dwindling away!

I love mike but there is a huge difference between now days and when our grandparents worked hard. One persons income could support a 8 person family buy vehicle's and a home. Those days are bygone.

Tomorrow ☘️☘️☘️💚💚💚

What makes work stressful especially for young people is a toxic work environment. It's the unhappy Management, who are usually focused on stuffing their pockets than their employee's well being.

Not enough good jobs period

3:40 - I think the mig weld should be between Metal and Wood Shop, but the Carpenter Weld moved from NY to NJ back in the late 80s . We could have had our own vocational Little League DOE A shift on the 1st to 8th Grade Hazmat Placard Coloring Books, and a Messerschmitt type build on the Free Lunch and Field Trip Grant. We would have worked the A & B shift and installed a proper 2 // 4 hour C Shift accountability to the United Way non profit volunteer employee relief , through YMCA and Phys ED Summer School Driver Education Confined Space Training and lock out tag out failsafe as well as MSDS familiarisation and mandatory IPS at the 9th Grade level.

LOL 🤣 Work smarter not harder Work for yourself, so you can retire early Working Harder hasn’t done CRAP

In the late 60's they made life meaningless, hedonistic. What was anyone expecting? More unintended consequences of mothers fundamentally, not being mothers. Support & honor mothers. Her name isn't Kinder care." It shouldn't take 2 jobs for individuals to compete with Berkshire. Hathaway and the like in the real estate market. Row, Fix the problem that is the problem. I think you need some help seeing it.

I'll take Mike Rowe's advice on physical blue collar work when he actually does a physical blue collar job for a period of years, instead of just pretending for a TV show. Mike Rowe is just another talking head that criticizes without doing it himself.

The street people have it right. Just work enough, out of the system, to survive. The more you make, the more .Gov will take away and it's only going to get worse.

4-10 hour days is Awesome , I worked it for the last 20 years , Please talk to our new President to bring Shop classes back !😎

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Takeing shop class out maybe why the rainbow got bigger too.hmmm

Another consequence of the vilification of work has resulted in what I have seen. Namely, I spent years in the 80's building military equipment that made things like grenade body loaders for cluster bombs and equipment to make tank mines. I assure you, the military being an image of the general public, there is not enough integrity, talent or skills backed by a solid work ethic and manufacturing infrastructure in the private sector to equip the military on short or long notice.

You let anyone suggest retirement age be raised from 65 and you will hear a loud noise through out the land. Most people work looking forward to retirement, not working. The fact of life is we work to have the money for a somewhat comfortable retirement. Some people just ignore the inevitable and pay dearly for it later on. Most people would opt not to work if they didn't have to. Mike Rowe has made a living off show casing jobs that are not especially wanted by most people or many people don't have the skills, however they must be done. As they say, somebody has to do it. I am grateful we have skilled workers to do the things that are needed in order to live our lives. Mike Rowe doesn't work a 40 hour work week year round, probably hasn't ever, or it was long ago. It's great to sit back and be a critic when you have a very good life. There are people who do enjoy their work would do it until they could no longer physically, however most people don't feel that way. How unaware you are! The people who create a job for you are the people who love working, you are just another person working until retirement. What have you done to create jobs? Sound off all you want, someone created a job for you in order you could retire. Be grateful to the people who gave you the opportunity to work and save for retirement.

I went to a trade school ended up making 250k in my best years …. I got out of trade school in 1983 . Why spend 100k on a education that doesn’t pay half what the school cost you ?

I think Bernie should be prohibited from working more than 32 hours per week. 8 hours would be better!

Don't forget the drivers that took drivers that away and now nobody can drive

When I graduated high school in the mid '80's I didn't want anything to do with manual labor jobs, my impression was that they paid very little, you worked very hard and worked long hours, including weekends. I also took shop class and got good grades, that didn't change my opinion, it only reinforced that I didn't like that kind of work. Even to this day, I hate carpentry. My ideal career was working in a clean, cool office cubicle in a job that paid very well. I then met a new friend whose father was a computer programmer and that was right up my alley and what I have done ever since. My point to all this is, there is nothing wrong with trade jobs but you still have to have the aptitude for it in order to be successful, it's not for everyone and certainly wasn't for me.

Everything follows path of least resistance unfortunately unless you have the two things thatatter discipline and drive.

Conversely, plenty of folks w/ 4yr degree dont know how to do their white collar job, some dont even know 'how to work'; need to spend a few years working at something hot, dirty, back aching that would help them learn to use their brain, help them learn how the numbers and words on the screen relate to the real world.

Well Mr. Rowe, you are wrong for various reasons. But I will tell you my side. I work for Amazon on a flexible schedule I use to work for a 10 hour full time shift with them until I had to go to Flex after my father's stroke. Now because of the sluggish economy, Amazon to save their greedy hide instilled delivery fees which drove the customers away. Thus resulting in low volume of orders since. Mr. Rowe I want to work, but my employer only uses me if they need the help so I am lucky if I can get a shift a week now. And yes I had been looking for work elsewhere no other warehouse wants me. So when I heard of Senator Sanders plan. Yes we should do it. It's been proven to work in Europe. And that would free up more shifts for me.

I heard the we word about a million times here. Some of us have been there and done that.

"Arbeit mache das leben süss." (Work makes life sweet.)

Mike Rowe hasn’t been anything but tv host. Maybe if he had a real job, he wouldn’t hold these views. Bro is arrogating hard…

I saved my paychecks and now im a full time stock investor... and i gotta tell you, my people are drooling to replace you with robots... the time to work and make money is now, is yesterday, get yourself some capital

Works wonders for Germany. Evidently they’re happier than we are with no loss of productivity.

No to the 32 work week!

Use the illegal immigrants for science experiments

We should all get the same number of paid vacation days as cadaver Joe. 😂

As a plumber 😂 I understand. Good help is hard to find but a lot of homeowners are broke and trying repairs themselves.

Mike Rowe is money well spent by the Koch Brother

Just need to take 3 months (May,June,July) paid off work every year, President needs to make is a mandatory holiday every year. Call it the climate correction holiday.

Why work at all!

Less work, less taxes DC gets. These people lack common sense. Get out of the private sector DC. Government is not the solution. It's the problem!!

Can Mike Rowe get me a scholarship to take Heavy Duty equipment apart and put it back together again?

When you tell people working have a great day. They look at you like "have a good day while I'm working." People are no longer happy at doing their jobs. I miss that when talking with workers.

Mike Rowe - "You should be happy to work until you die!"😊

My opinion, Mike Rowe has an old man mentality from the old days and he needs to get up with the times.

A millionaire promoting working for low wages like it’s something honorable 👎😡

WHAT WOULD MIKE ROWE KNOW ABOUT WORK.. NEVER WORKED A DAY IN HIS LIFE!

Instead of thirty two hours or working four days a week how about thirty six hours a week five days a week

WHAT WOULD NEIL CAVUTO KNOW ABOUT WORK.. NEVER WORKED A DAY IN HIS LIFE!

For me an average work hour week is 70 hours and it’s not uncommon to work 80+ hours which I do a lot of. It’s a bad week if I have only 60 hours. I find this to be an absolute joke about 32 hour work week. So if this happens what do businesses do. America isn’t gonna build itself or wait Biden Administration doesn’t want American made products. He would rather ship everything in from China to keep inflation sky high. I know this is Bernie Sanders’s idea but wouldn’t surprised me though if Biden signs it. My job is as blue collard as it gets, I work on cargo ships delivering iron ore, stone, coal and salt all over the Great Lakes to places like Ford plants, and many more. I work for USW Union local 5000. This won’t change the hours I work regardless. Yes my job is mentally tough and it definitely can be physically at times.

I think he meant to say oversaturation of the workforce due to a personal invitation from the big guy.

This is not sustainable. Economic stratification is at an all-time high. Sadly I don't think it will change without violence

They dont call it a four letter word for nothing .

Master elevator mechanic can make 150-200k a year.

At least his mom doesn’t think of him as Trump 🙄

Yeah, inflation rate isn't high enough 🤔

Neil Cavuto is a snobbish conceded boring person. I don’t know how he holds on to a show on Fox.

Also, lmao, we had "Tech ed" instead of shop, but we never did any projects, mainly because we were in trouble for the "bad" kids who in one semester, put a human kid in a trash can, shot a hot glue gun on someone's neck which the teacher promptly ripped off when he went up there?!?!, threw his stool on top of his office, and a kid light the ONLY girl in the classes hair on fire not quite by accident but he had the lighter so low from her hair God and Aquanet made it happen. I know there's more I can't remember... Lol that kid had the Gorbachev scar on his neck from 9th grade on😢 but 😂 Oh and that girl walked up to his desk so patiently for someone just lit on fire and even waited for him to be annoyed for standing there and asking "What Delyla" then he went into a rage...😂😂😂 It was south park levels I swear

If high schools had a sawmill and students did the work oh the dumb ones well classes would be smaller

Work is a good thing but there must be value in doing so. These kids have instant access and gratification vs working hard for something. Now we have inflation, bad poisonous food so things costs more or are bad to eat.

Why do they always bring on this clown when the topic is anything work related? This guy is an ACTOR. He's never had to do hard labour in his whole life. Are Fox viewers really this gullible?

Why are you talking about this? It isn’t going anywhere. Finding something else worth talking about must have felt like work.😂

"We have to have roads, because we have to have jobs, because we have to pay taxes, because we have to have roads, because..." Money is a device designed specifically to limit access to energy. Capitalism values Scarcity which commands Destruction. The more one Destroys, the more Scarcity one creates, the Higher Premium one can charge, thereby creating an Abundance of Capital in one's - personal - bank account. ~ By this, Capitalists rationalize that Scarcity creates Abundance. Capitalism is just an Ideology of Abstractions and False Equivalencies. In the past, the Bank, the State and the Church were one in the same, but today we commit to the act that these superficially disparate entities are in fact separate. Statism, which is founded on Ad Baculum - is - Collectivism. Through taxation - extortion - you are forced to engage capitalism. The Primitive, on average, only spends 21 hours a week meeting his needs. Modernites spend easily 2-3x this depending on real estate, inflation, taxation, wages and job availability. Only the Alienated want jobs. You can't start a fire, forage, build a house, but you want to show off how grown up you are by performing meaningless, repetitive tasks.

Would you please ask Mike what is the least he will work for no perks no extras just $hour what is the least he will except a job at you don't start with Healthcare or paid days off or anything else just $ hour what is he going to work for today how much is he willing to put in a hard day of shoveling asphalt for 10 hours Today no overtime just straight pay what is the least he can accept Today to feed a family and e swelled with pride he was a provider Today he really needs to answer that because that number needs to be minimum wage answer that question Mike what is that $ amount t Neal ide like you to ask every guest that question and what's your answer too

I am not your fan Mike. Outside agencies are this countries problem, not work. Take care of your own neighbors. Mike wont.

I love when they wheel out this dinosaur to tell us to get back to work.

Children, theres no future in any job that gets your hands dirty. They lay you off every two years and cut your pay in half.

Mike Rowe is the Bernard Sanders of the Right. 😂 A guy who never worked. TV content isn't work Pinhead

We should focus on education we’re not even top 10!

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