What is the Precariat | Guy Standing | TEDxPrague 

I have never felt so heard in my life before. The problem is, if you are not in a precarious position yourself, it's nigh impossible to empathize with it. You will hear them out and offer support, but you cannot shake the feeling their security is attainable to everyone. It's false, of course, but by the time you're in the position yourself, it's too late. To everyone in doubt, believe this man's description of the precariat. It is real and it is devastating - both personally and socially.

I moved from his precariat to his salariat, but the anger stays with you. It would be a choice to give up that anger, and I don't want to.

Totally respect this guy for nailing such a serious current problem. Can't help feeling the elites would like to get rid of him. He speak dangerous truths.

What's the name of the guy standing?

I just stumbled on this guy while working on my dissertation...I am amazed I have never heard of this man before. I wish objectivists and laissez faire economists would listen to this gentleman.

One of my favorites philosophers and humanitarians. This man, Guy...thank you for keeping us up to date with what needs to be done as the distraction update themselves to make us think there is no way to improve our lives. Thank you for combating the toxicity or doubt and deception.

I'm in the process of reading his book. He's a phenomenal writer and goes into deep analysis about this new and growing sector of society [the Precariat].

More people need to see this. This man speaks with Passion with a capital P.

This Guy is a social scientist with helpful commentaries, all stemmed from truth and love. I also believe that life is dog-eat-dog at a level, but if we are to evolve, we need to listen to Guy.

He's a great speaker. I'm currently reading his book "the plunder of the commons"

Im not a leftist guy and this man makes nothing but sense to me.

Absolutely spirited spot on lecture

Brilliant ! Tank you Guy Stranding !

They should have given the "Guy" a "Standing" ovation.

Wow! He is so spot on!

This is where neoliberal dogma has placed the world! I feel a job guarantee combined with a basic income is essential and governments need to be more active in this role as well!

Superb lecture that is terrifying and thought provoking.

The only problem is everyone sitting there are not the precariat so will not feel an ounce of compulsion.

I really appreciated this talk. His brief analysis hits true and hard. We need to keep expressing & hearing this knowledge in current narrative so that it is alive for those coming up after us; not everyone is gonna read Marx. But wtf is up with keeping the idea of “income” around at all? Why don’t people in a region simply provide everyone in that region the basic provisions for a secure existence. We need a solidarity economy. Not a monthly payment to sustain the unsustainable.

Watched from 2021, things become even worse.

Got the book. It is absolutely terrifying.

I've just realised I'm in the progressive faction of the precariat.

This was fabulous

took me a while to realise that's his actual name

Guy Speaking

Great talk

amazing

Somewhat wasted on the ted talk audience and middle-class youtube. But his words are frighteningly accurate.

youtube algo needs to pump this up

Definition of Precariat 2:21

outSTANDING performance

Buenisimo

The crowd at the end is so undiverse XD

Just read grapes of wrath

interesting discussion. Any predictions on when the "progressive" precariats will actually get represented or be able to make changes for the better? I read in one Dr Standing's articles about 7 or 8 years ago around 2013 that about 15% of the population is in the precariat. What is that figure now, and how does that/will that likely affect what is to come? So far it seems to be only the atavist part of the precariat that are making any changes to the political landscape. Considering the traditional Social Democrats parties such as Labour don't seem to appeal to the precariat, do you see any progressive parties or organizations that represent the interests of the precariat)?

Without draconian rent controls and a return of good quality social housing, greedy private landlords would simply snatch the extra basic income. If this factor was accounted for, basic income would be a good idea. Under the criminalized benefits system, people are being bundled into low skilled jobs to avoid sanctions. And they stay in these jobs rather than take the risk of trying for something more skilled, since if they fail, they will fall into the criminalized system again. I have to say that Guy Standing is a phenomenal communicator and needs to go into politics and replace Keir Starmer!

This is a very interesting topic, but perhaps a little less relevant for countries where social mobility is high? Although several of those countries are moving in the same direction, slowly but surely...

2018 se termine. Toujours pas de RE en France. Comment expliquer ce phénomène ? Comment est-ce possible ?

Anyone up for building a party of the precariat then?

Omg he's at Ted.

All people and all life need to be valued for they are and not measured by money.

This may sound to simple but, all Nations should agree to simply create the necessary resources through the banking sectors where all nations would make adjustments in all national accounts to cover it for all it's citizens based off the current needs for food, clothing and shelter. Money is just a set of numbers to represent value - just make an adjustment worldwide. On employment and the unemployed, this gives people time to gain new skills or their could be 3 day work shifts adding more workers to work the other 3 - 4 day shift . This would boost all economies with the added needs of additional consumers in the marketplace allowing for added production and innovation.

coolest name ever?

I’ve tried to think about rating drivers since we all have stories of people cutting us off or riding our bumper. But I couldn’t get around the issue that the only ratings you would get are negative ones. The closest thing I cane up with was to count negative reviews and grade them based on time/consistency. I think we can make better @/platforms and better systems. The ratings system has to do with customer satisfaction. If you want return customers then you want well rated riders. However a lot of these platforms don't encourage ratings especially for food delivery. Most customers don't rate. So when you do get ratings you get dinged. We need to be fair to both sides of the equation: customers and riders! And it shouldn't just be the rider telling the customer "please rate me", the platform needs to do its part too. I personally think the rating system is unfair to riders and have considered scrapping it. Please understand that the workers are vulnerable to the customer's whims. However we do need to value customer ratings as well... let's re-think this one! World isn't fair just like in nature, fortunately humans are very good at adapting to their environment

Anyone here from Calbel?

Yang 2020

Things have gotten 100 times worst since this video.

Hi. Why don't you have the subtitles in Spanish?

Words are good but we need to put words in to action!

Yep, everybody did lose rationality. Nail on the head

guy do be standing ngl

06:34 The Roma(ni)

That's what heppend in France now

Who's standing?

He should not have been right in scome points - in some even more. We need a movement against this. Iam tired of being ruled by a fearful part of society. Social unequality is at it's peak! Who is in to work against this?

OK, there is nothing new under the sun. Marx explained class struggle and class division years ago: It was Marx who had first discovered the great law of motion of history, the law according to which all historical struggles, whether they proceed in the political, religious, philosophical or some other ideological domain, are in fact only the more or less clear expression of struggles of social classes, and that the existence and thereby the collisions, too, between these classes are in turn conditioned by the degree of development of their economic position, by the mode of their production and of their exchange determined by it. This law, which has the same significance for history as the law of the transformation of energy has for natural science. Engels, Preface to The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1885) What's happening is that the world at large has entered a new epoch, a second gilded age that's occurring on a global level. ‘The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward’.” -Winston Churchill Churchill is right and if you want to see how the future will shape up just read about the 1st gilded age in the United States. Mr. Standing keeps repeating the word "new" throughout his lecture , but history just repeats itself, there is nothing "new". Also, he plays to the notion of the "progress of mankind" as if the world can be improved upon and made to be just, fair, and equitable. This is a fallacy. Also, he claims that the ruling class is worried about how things are shaping up. Worried ? Are you kidding me ? The ruling class shapes and controls all aspects of society. Plus, the masses are just mindless herd animals that will instinctively follow the dictates of some outspoken leader and this will never change. Like I said, the world doesn't change, it only changes form.

Isn’t rising precariat is a result of declining ability of governments to care of people more than their geopolitics and their own surroundings?

I think the title should rather say Guy Spittingfactsfortwelveminutesstraightwhilestanding

He shouldnt have neglected the global south, were precariousness is a norm

Well good analysis into the Boomer community

2019 and its only getting worse

I wonder if there is a TED Talk speaker workshop that people go to, because they all speak in the same way. I find it weird.

Let us travel a few centuries ahead of us and let us talk about socialism-marxism.Let us find the light.

Selfish Republicans will be seething when they get wind of this.

I know hes standing just tell he his god damn name already

He is married th Lady Sitting

He lives up to his name. Techniy, he can go by the name "Guy Vertically planking"

8:50 “We need to fight for a basic income for every man, every woman, and every child in our society. It is affordable without a doubt. It is not going to do the things the critics say. Because we do want to improve our lives. So if you have a basic income you will not become lazy. We have done pilots in various countries. And people who have basic income work more not less. And when they work they’re more productive not less. A basic income encourages the good virtues of any decent human being. People who have basic security are more altruistic than others. They’re more tolerant of others. They feel more inclined to engage in society as a human being and as a citizen. It is something that brings out the good qualities of the human being. We need to move in that direction because without security and without building a system with everybody having security the inequalities and insecurities will increase the probability that someone like Donald Trump will win at some stage. Because too many people will be suffering from insecurity and losing the capacity to be rational. That is a real fear we should all have. But we want to create a better society. A basic income would promote security. It would also give us a greater sense of control over our time. We need a politics of time for the 21st Century. We need to enable people to feel in control of their time. To have a slow time movement. Where you indulge not just in your labor but in different forms of work: caring for your frail relatives, or your children, or your community. This sense of control of time is something that any good civilized society should want everybody to have.

Reply all brought me here

Why is it snowing on stage?

Funny that the only google image of this dude is of him sitting

he's definitely standing

If you've paid off your student debt are you still a progressive of the precariat?

His analysis is extraordinary. His solution, however, is a nonstarter.

The problem with the progressive precariat is that they can not produce ANY goods valuable for the other people, while they obviously need to consume goods produced by others. When you pay for something, you expect to recieve some concrete product/service. Nobody will pay you because you have finished some college or had a great marks at school. You can sell your skills as an employee or an enterprenuer. But precarists dont have one to sell. They could become a carpenter, plumber or fix cars, but that kind of life "doesn't fit their ambitions". So they are still in point, and we should not pay them for free, but should teach them some profession and send to work.

I like the idea, though I disagree with some of the given justifications for it. (And I think there are some other good ones, unmentioned.) But some evidence needs to be offered, that it works. There was the mention of pilot programs. How did they work. Details, statistics. Outline the studies. For example, what gets people to do the undesirable jobs if we have a base income anyway? Who decides he'll go out and clean public toilets for fun? Is base income adjusted for number of children? If so, is there a limit to the number of allowed children? Also, it didn't work that well in China, Cube, the Soviet Union. How is this version different? In America, our founding fathers were rich, and they put checks in place to prevent the less wealthy majority from simply voting to liberate the rich of their property. These checks make Robyn Hood legislation... difficult. I think you need to invoke some of the concepts in and surrounding Bertram Russel's "In Defense of Leisure." You'll have to get the rich to expect to benefit from the arrangement. I think a plausible argument could be made. But I don't think you've made it. Those are hard questions, but I still think we should try it. Btw, how do I get in on one of the pilot programs?

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Guy Standing standing

Motivation, not being lazy, is not the critical issue here. The critical issue is competency. People can not be productive unless they are competent. Unfortunately about 10% of Americans are low enough in competency as to be unemployable in any line of work. Providing them with UBI will ensure an increase in their numbers and little else.

Guy Standing speaking (2017)

The "electric theory" & the existence of Intelligent Extra Terrestrials should be considered seriously. This should provoke even more curiosity about "our" existence on this planet.

A childs security is the responsibility of the parents not the state.

Sounds like modern Marx

Guy Spitting

lol guy standing

The global population has only been able to rise due to the intervention of competent countries in the lives of the citizens of incompetent countries. Those 3rd world nations. To prevent further imbalance all foreign aid should immediately be withdrawn from historically incompetent countries. Let them stand or fall on their own merits. Either way it is clear that "lifeboat ethics" has run a ground.

7:06 yes I can. People explode in rage because they're taught that they're entitled to a certain standard of living despite people, and this includes the unskilled, having more than at any time in history.

Universal Basic Income is not affordable. UBI can only be accomished by taking the fruits of the efforts of competent people and giving them to incompetent people. This practice will put dysgenic pressure on society. Just as welfare does now.

The idea sounds like communism in a smaller way...

I don’t know man. What he calls precariot we used to just call functional schizophrenic. Good luck selling that as a class substrata. LMFAO!!!🤣

he predicted trump winning

Progressive talk....

If a person does not first demonstrate the means to support themselves. Then they should not be allowed to procreate additional obligations which will end up being the responsibility of taxpayers.

Debating socialism is a luxury brought to you courtesy of capitalism. Think about that. Redistributing wealth will not do a god damn thing for the average person. We need to think of ways to get people in a better position to generate their own wealth.

if this dude geniuenly believes basic income would make people more productive then he's never met a turkish person

He wants to "take back" resources from worlds billionaires. Those resources are their assets and those assets were accumulated through voluntary exchanges. The workers have no claim to the profits of their employers beyond what was negotiated and mutually agreed upon.

There is nothing wrong with the income distribution system. There is something wrong with people who do not take the initiatives necessary to ensure that they will have a marketable skill that will earn them a descent living. Instead they see their employers as responsible for paying them a "living wage" despite their low skills.

6:22 Capitalism is a NIGHTMARE... now buy my book when this talk is over? 😂

Me : "huh precariat? i've never heard of that one" looks up definition : "this... this is just the working class american.. oh"

You deserve to stay poor if you take this guy serious