HR are cops. Never talk to cops

If you must talk to them for investigatory purposes and you have a union, always enact your Weingarten rights, of course.

"Human Resources"? Lmao, could they make it sound any more dehumanising?

@@syncswim ACAB tbh

The fact that they call it human resources already gives it away. You are a resource for them, just like the products they are selling.

Man… I just got a $2 raise at my job after only 4 months with the company following a performance review. This is rare but I say find the right company to work for because some are shit and some actually reward you for hard work and enthusiasm. Also fuck capitalism lol.

My strategy that worked beautifully because I wasn't constantly monitored at my last job was to work really hard for half an hour, then take a break. The length of the breaks would expand or shrink to meet what was actually necessary to "Do my job". They loved me and I basically worked stress free. Simultaneously productive and lazy by alternating the two.

It's hard to kill the instinct to do everything as well as possible, perfectionism all the way back from like 3rd grade runs deep in my bones lol and so does the anxiety with it. But alas I must

I used to work as fast as I could, I got compliments, all hoping maybe I'd get a promotion. I was fifteen. Later I was suggested to "reconsider my position" working there because I didn't give my manager two weeks notice about missing work for my uncle's funeral. My uncle, by the way, killed himself. I remember the only reason my family allowed me to quit was because my sister heard my manager yelling at me over the phone. Again, I was FIFTEEN. I'm 18 now, and I haven't been working for awhile. This new mindset, I kind of want to work again.

How depressing. "don't excel, Don't even try to." Bullshit.

Most jobs are designed to be completable by morons. After short learning period youl be good enough.

Unless you also have the power to fire them, in which case you are equal

Diese Art von Unternehmen sind die schlimmsten hier.

I can confirm this 100%. Officially, everyone is all buddy buddy, but may God have mercy upon your soul if you ever accidentally step on one of your bosses‘ egos with a single toe… or, heaven forbid, ask for improvements/changes, so you can do your job better. Then, at the latest, you’ll know that it’s all just public relations with little to no substance.

This applies to tradespeople too! Your clients are not your friends. Your friends don't leave you chore lists, fire you for being human, or leverage your wage as a handle to pull when they are lonely.

Yep, I got burned bad by that culture and we weren't even a tech company, just run by bros who wanted to run it like a startup

Plz let me join your group and share the quest. I'm not finding the NPC offering it :(

win in lottery i guess

mission imposible?

Step one is to move to a Country with good labour laws.. high minimum wage aswell as many benefits are essentials..

@@Otzkar there's still wage labour it's only ""friendlier""

If you work retail,always turn a blind eye to shoplifters.

Yeah, that sounds cool, but what if the manager notices more than the usual inventory shrinkage on your shift. You know the Boss does not know that you are NOT working with the Shoplifters. You might not turn them in but you need to tell those thieving predatory pricks to take it somewhere else. Really, Paul, there is more than One Way to Exploit the Masses and that is to STEAL what the rest of us will have to PAY FOR. Also, if we began to Hang Thieves again, well, the reason Wages are so Low is because of all the People fighting for jobs. Culling the Herd only makes Life Easier for the Survivors, right? Yeah, Comrades are Competitors too, huh?

I didn't see any shoplifting.

@@leovolont I did work retail for a company called Tesco a big multi-national. In a meeting we were told that the store was losing £20k per week because of theft and the manager also said it was the staff doing it. In my time there I only saw 3 members of staff sacked for theft. The store was taking over £1.2 million a week in sales. This was a company that was using all means in cut it tax bill. Also the newly appointed CEO was removed after six months in the job but still walked away with a £2.3 million golden hand shake. The reason for low wages is the destruction of unions. At another company I was told by the management that we can't start a union without 75% of the staff wanting a union. They even told use that we were not to speak to any union reps that would sometime be out side the work place. Turns out that you can join a union as a individual. Also you sound a bit la la, but maybe it something just lost in translation. if you look in to it and do some research you're find that this sort of theft is the lowest and what those higher up steel is the major. Look at the UK and the cronyism that is going on there at the moment. In the UK it said that there is over £1 billion of freud in benefits. Which most is shown to be over payments and not people trying to con the government and at the same time the UK loses £32 billion in taxes because corporation's have the means to avoid and evade paying their taxes in full.

@@pauljays1162 Hi Paul, Yeah, okay, I hear everything that you're saying. Everybody thinks I have some kind of Ideology here. I don't. I'm just cynically realiistic. I did a Video Series a while back, well, recently, "Democracy Is a Bad Thing"... Democracy was a Weapon that the Business Classes used to take power from the Kings. The Revolution was a Capitalist Victory. Paul, the West belongs to them. Also, they are not Evil People. Paul, put yourself in their shoes. Pretend that you suddenly strike it rich, and you get swept up into High Society and have a whole new set of friends, you know, the Country Club set. Okay, how long will you still be writing essays like the one you just wrote? They have Money. They have Power. They are not going to Prosecute each other for Taxes. They're going to be free and easy with Bonuses to themselves. Why not? It's THEIR Money. Paul, why do we even exist. Our Parents must have known that we had no Trust Funds, no Endowments waiting for us. My Parents went through the Great Depression and the World War II and I was born during the Nuclear Age. What the hell were they thinking!? What kind of life was I supposed to lead. I'd just be struggling to get by. They thought the Depression was just a fluke? Anyway, Paul, we can't Blame the Rich for our problems. In my Video Series "Revolution From the Top" I make the argument that with the Machine Intelligence Age Humanity will be Freed from Labor and Wage Slavery. That's a good thing. But we won't need Workers anymore, and it would be ridiculous to keep us around. WE, 7 Billion of us, are causing all the Global Warming. We are causing the extinction of species. We are covering field and forest with concrete. We Are a Cancer on the Face of the Earth. The Rich would be less than 1% of us. They could be HAPPY. Yeah, that is an interesting Series... I might redo it because I have a few new ideas. Really, I'm actually hoping that China and North Korea can make it. They aren't Democracies, the Agency for Capitalism, and they have STRONG Public Sectors and they can PLAN their Population levels. The Rich have always had the instinct to Plan their Family Sizes... dividing the Estate destroys the Estate. But, yeah, my "Revolution From the Top" Series doesn't mention China because, well, I wouldn't want to jinx them, but they also will be faced with the problem of what to do with a USELESS Population. Remember how the Economy used to be a Horse Power Economy. Thousands of horses all over the place. When was the the last time you saw a live horse? Workers are now the Horses.

This also works the other way. If something will take both my husband and I two hours to do and we can pay $XX instead and XX is less than 2 hours of our combined wages, just pay the money!

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Yes its called thinking like a capitalist. Time is the only resourve you cant get back but you can save yourself from spending it by buying something already made for the purpose.

Good to see brazillians. It's funny some of these tips are also said by capitalism defensors who advise people financially.

I do the same but calculate not with my current salary but with the salary I would get if I quit and had to find another job. This way I am not tied to my employer and feel I can leave whenever.

I love Dr. Devon! His essays are always enlightening!

maybe you aren't a workaholic because you are sane...you imply workaholics are only typical people, but they are actually the ones who are sick in our society. They work endlessly because of their shame and fear, and only stop when they burnout, get depressed, or commit suicide.

I second this! I'm reading it currently and already it has been eye-opening.

Thank you for the suggestion

omg this is something I preach all the time, didn't know there was a book with the same name

where can we find more leftist self-help guides?!

thats why its not self help it doesn't sell you hope just tries to help you

its realistic...thats what i like about it

@@Brandon_Brando it's not self-help, it's mutual aid

You guys really are fatherless arent you? I mean the basic lessons of everybody works in their own interest not in the interest of others and so should you is something normal people hear from a competent father figure as soon as they are able to comprehend it.

Hey i got a question about the working as much you can get away with part. At my wokrplace there are only people working which have the opinion that i am working to slow and i am beeing incompetent. Is this a normal thing under employees?

@@oslowkey Work even less and be even more incompetent.

It applies to school too. You should only study the bare minimum to get enough marks to pass; we all know it is never about learning anyway.

@@emilysmith6897 then get fired. The way I used to deal with feeling insecure in my job due to my slower work is by always having another job ready for me to go to if I got pis*ed off or fired. My latest mistake was becoming directly employed by a company and being complacent. Haven't recovered from being fired yet lol. Been a few months back living with fam. But I'm trying to build a more flexible self directed work life for myself rn.

Unless you are an engineer, where the safety of thousands depends on you...

@@kennethjohnson-lh1fs because in the war torn nation there coming from the american bombs are worse then being a wageslave. Just because US Intervention made shittier places doesnt mean the us got any better.

@@kennethjohnson-lh1fsbecause it’s still better here.

Adapting is hard, buts its respectable that you do even if you stumble at first.

Try to play society games and you'll end up better than if you won't, then you can rebel as much as you like

maybe your philosophy isn't working out, but i still think that simply stopping whenever possible to check in with yourself is one of the most helpful things you can do as an act of resistance ...good luck with your quest

its survival, man, tell me about it

This weak character is what suffocates change ​@@isiahfriedlander5559

Huh, interesting. I've heard the "Ignorance is bliss" phrase many times before, but I've actually never heard the follow-up "Knowledge is freedom".

i don't understand how knowing you live in a piss filled tank could ever make you feel better about your situation. Knowledge is a means to an end. There is no reward in it of itself. It is only useful when you can extract value out of it.

@@magiicZed You're right, knowledge itself is not inherently rewarding, but it is a very important tool, and it is what you make of it. You can always extract value from knowing how the world works, imo. If you pardon me extending the fish metaphor a bit more: if the ignorant fish lives their life in the barrel by the rules of the ocean, they will often find themselves disappointed or even hurt. The knowledgable fish is able to adapt to the conditions of the barrel better, or even improve the conditions themselves. The ignorant fish will have difficulty doing any of that, because they don't even know that their life *can* be better. They think they're in the ocean! The ocean may be a bit cramped and taste like piss, but how can you get any better than the ocean? And then there's the idea of an escape plan. The ignorant fish can't even conceive of an escape plan because, well, they don't even think they're trapped. The knowledgable fish will be able to plan an escape to the ocean, if not for them, then for future generations of barrel fish. So maybe knowledge is not so much freedom as it is a crowbar, but I don't think that would make the saying sound quite as nice, lol.

Caveat: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but expertise is a life-saver. Don't get stuck on Mount Stupid, thinking you know everything about a topic after skimming the Wikipedia article on it. There's TONNES more to know! Especially on technical topics. I once spent a week trying to figure out how to make a floating-point unit in Logisim because I had no idea how it worked and it hadn't been covered in any sort of detail in any of my computer science subjects at uni. I managed to get as far as getting addition and subtraction working (though probably not IEEE754 compliant), so I felt that was a week well-spent. A little bit closer to understanding how things work.

Ignorance is bliss Knowledge is power But don’t fight the man in any case, you will loose

Hey, you are valuable, just as valuable as everyone else. Remember that❤

35 years old, never managed to end anything significant, not even the drivers license, never lasted more than half a year in a job, and now thanks to my middle-class privilege (provided by my mistreating father, yay) I got access, finally, to a good psychiatrist. Guess what, seems like I have a case that looks so much like ADHD as anything she has seen before, like an exaggerated book example, that's why depression meds never worked and I couldn't end sh+t. F+ck me, I barely made it. What the hell I'm saying? F+ck the system and it's ethics. We need ourselves alive not for the world to finally change in a way that it accepts us, but just to give the others a chance to reach to us in a way that might be helpful, endearing, even game changer. Companionship, comraderie, even if it is just from a computer because people terrify us. We're here, we're alive despite being unlucky and even those of us who fell on their way can be remembered as those who struggled and stayed human.

@@AslakAsp thank you :)

honestly I knew several people who worked cushy jobs doing marketing for amazon or something (6 figure worth jobs) and they worked only half days and I'm pretty sure they were neurotypical. So please take as many breaks and work on your own schedule dude!!

@@notreallyici Thanks, comrade, that's really helpful to keep in mind!

That guy was a pedo....

I had a manager who was like that, and I modeled myself after her when it came my turn.

Yes! I used to be a manager at my local grocery store, and you best belive that not only would I take out all of my vacation, but I hounded my employees to do the same. You have PTO laying about? TAKE IT.

Vacation or holidays is a right that workers fought for. There´s no way I´m throwing that away to prove that I am willing to be a slave to my employer.

​@@KidTheFailUhm. Its their PTO. They earned it, and as PTO it means that if they get sick or do want to take a week long vacation they can. Just beause its inconvenient to the managers and supervisors doesnt mean they should have to work around that. As for the employees, theyre there to make money and if they know "Oh I can just build up my vacation time like John Doe" which then usually means better attendance as well. Workers Rights > Managers Happy Time at work

You are getting radicalized if this is what you seek as young and in uncertainty.

@@nopenopeson1097 cope

@@nopenopeson1097 Nope

@Class is Fundamental idk precisely what capitalism is. i don't think it's necessarily every time someone has traded something. idk if it starts with templars, or italian princes, or dutch and english, east and west indies companies, some ugly examples before we even get to adam smith. this invisible hand is picking your pocket right now, go on, check, i'll wait. you ever hear of due diligence? i don't just mean the idea of researching shit . i mean the law that says investors can sue a company for not making every cent conceivably possible. investors actually sued henry ford for giving a tiny raise. the system is set up to always shift responsibility, so no one ever takes it, or occasionally some patsy takes a fall. the incentive offered by this set up is towards evil as you put it. the so called free market is free for big shots to manipulate laws, dodge taxes, price fix, screw you, your government, and your small business, and never give any more back than public relations demands. if you ruin a community or the environment, don't fix it, move your money, go bankrupt, start company with new name and repeat. yeah, i don't have any answers. the only card i carry is my library card, but i gotta disagree that capitalism isn't inherently evil. it is, and it will dirty our hands and make us complicit because that's how abusers groom their victims

Work hard and always do your best. Save money and never stop trying to think of another way to get rich and you will overcome the slavery system. It’s never been easier to free yourself from the matrix.

facts!

homelessness is actually caused by local over-regulation of zoning lol.

YES YES YES YES YES YES AND YES

Also, if you're addicted, withdrawal symptoms can be literal hell and in some cases even deadly depending on the substance and how long you've been on it.

I've always thought, "if I was freezing and homeless, would I have enough self-discipline to stay sober? NO."

What about building your thing in a new digital economy? Like, freelance graphic design or something. I am on a crossroad between just getting a job in EU with nice work-life balance or make money on my own with services I provide.

@@150pointcharacter For me it comes down to risk. Boring corporate jobs with good benefits are low risk but not that rewarding. Currently I am doing that while trying to build a job I am more passionate about in the next few years after I have saved up enough to mitigate risk.

​@Danyil Shymchenko seriously you have to be really awful to succeed in business. Sabotage, explore other people to get the money... it's something I'm not willing at all, so you see how you are: are you willing to explore other people to get your life fine? If not I don't recommend it at all.

@@conner651 what exactly are you arguing against? Your comment doesn’t make sense in relation to the OP.

@@juvedoo99 Communists will never achieve utopia. Humans are flawed, and they always forget that. The mediocre will always despise the exceptional. Wanting a better world requires more than flimsy ideals. Your revolution would just replace the elites with another.

@@tristan3801 Look! Somebody who doesn't understand why Socialists set up a classless utopia as an idealistic goal to work towards!

@@castor9683 Classless utopia? Don't make me laugh, you really overestimate human nature. There will always be prejudice, and it happens to be leftist types who think we're some hive mind.

@@tristan3801 Wow, it took you 8 days to come up with that useless response? Impressive!

Giga Marx

That's great man, hope you are going better now. Trying to find work that actively allows people to remain housed is incredibly difficult nowadays.

Leftube, breadtube, MarxLube🥳

Flower planting home?

Agreed!

@@abienniela9350 jeah man, best trend during corona. Now we share what the windows grew :D

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THANK YOU

@@YUGOPNIK youre welcome mate

well that just sounds like what pro capitalism say

@@dohanouini7671 Astute observation! I think this is because pro-capitalists are socialists in waiting.

@@rebeccar685 No

What shoplifters?

Oh, so criminals 'deserve' goods more than those who produced, designed, delivered etc. them?

​@@dionysus2003those ppl got paid before the shoplift phase, what's your point? Will you be getting a bonus for snitching, or free merch?

@@rosadelrio5120 here in russia the stolen part would be withdrawn from workers(not from manager's!) salary. I'm standing for labour ethics and can't support those who prefer to steal when there are others who work hard to make ends meet

@@dionysus2003 That sounds incredibly unfair and rightdown illegal, but that is a management/company problem aa much as it is the shoplifters: they are both criminals. I am sorry you and your peers have to go through that.

And they call us quiet quiters.

Self-preservation is an act of rebellion

Haha with my wfh job I wake up for my 9am team call then go back to sleep for another hour or two have my lunch then do 2/3 hours work and deliver whatever task is required.

They pay you, you agreed to it. You are exploiting them not they you. Its just happens to be that what you do is adequate enough to be done in 1 hour a day at home and not 8 at a job site

Sounds like the ideal day of a 13 year old boy

I'd like to add: take stock of your mental and social needs that aren't being met. Are you expressing yourself creatively? When was the last time you spoke on the phone with a friend? Physical needs are easier to meet or keep track of. Loneliness, alienation, addiction, and mental health crisises sneak up on you.

I think because the US has a racialized underclass that fucking no one talks about. Where I grew up all the Mexicans like my dad did the shit jobs for no pay, it's hard not to realize it's bullshit if your brain doesn't get fried with US propaganda and getting called racial slurs now and then innoculates you somewhat against thinking that this is a fair arrangement

@@xXEvangelXx I got lucky in middle school and I was at a school that still had a "drama" class. That teacher taught us all about propaganda when I was like... 11. I started seeing through the bullshit everywhere pretty early. I'm white but I grew up in hispanic communities because we were poor, and it was pretty heartbreaking watching all the people struggling, of which my family was a part the entire time... I still don't even know how my mom got enough money to raise me, because she was dealt as shitty of a hand as I was. Following rules similar to the ones lined out in this video, though, I did what capitalists call "pull myself up by the bootstraps", and now I live a slightly less meager existence on my own in adulthood with no real ability for upward mobility from here. I'm fairly certain I'm at my ceiling, but it's just comfortable enough to not go mad. You are not alone.

In america almost everything you learn as 'common wisdom' is horseshit. Thats necessary to continueing an empire, and a fairly self destructive one at that. I saw a documentary with a black writer who started on 'good times' int he seventies, and he said the week he started the writers who were white, came to him and told him the cast was unhappy but they didn't know why. He read their script and saw that the show they did was basically the family celebrating that they got welfare. He told them in the black community it was actually very embarassing to get welfare, but of couse the 'white' version of that is that welfare is a big party. Thats a good point about buying, its harder work but I always tell young people to go to a credit union and get to know the people there. They are goign to WANT to lend you money, but only if they know you will you get trust because banks are designed to lend money to people who ALREADY have money. But its a big difference. For one thing, during covid they did a poll that about HALF of young women renting were offered rent in exchange for sex. In other words on a tight month you can sell your body for a break. If thast not exploitative, I don't know what is.

As a white dude, this hits hard. Everyone knows owning is better than renting. Too many ignorant privilaged people think poor people choose to rent. If you can own a home, absolutely try. It helps you ride out things like the housing bubbles. Because we owned a home before 2020, when house prices doubled we didn't see an increase in rent. If you can't own a home, own your car. Take as few loans as possible. I promise I'm fighting back against predatory loans and racism.

Housing is problematic. I cannot afford to buy a home, even with a good job. When you buy a house for 300 000 and pay 250 000 to rent that money (interest), you work solely for the person you already paid back for five years if you get paid a net salary of 50 000 a year. That is part of the capitalist scam, as well, where someone gets huge financial advantages for doing no work. There is so much property tax and repair and upkeep bills in the US for homeowners as well. What can we do to find a third alternative?

Look at it this way, a low level accountant will work almost non stop out of college. The accountants who run the place simply sign their names and go golfing.

@@mikearchibald744 Exactly I understand it much more now, as opposed to a year ago when I initially wrote this. Capitalism is very much war and a fight and much like war, some enjoy it as a chance to engage their primal desires and to reinforce their position on the hierarchy of humans. While others find it as unnecessary suffering and cruelty that only the devil can spur upon man. Personally I enjoy violence and murder so I understand now why leftist ideals were hard for me to accept, but I do hope that one day many who do not wish to work and hurt others can have some escape in this life, if not in the next.

@@sethgaston8347 Thats corporatism, not capitalism. Adam Smith was a philosopher. The 'design' of capitalism was meant as a way to develop a half decent society. No philosopher would accept keeping a part of their system when it clearly doesn't work. However, Smith said capitalism can ONLY work under strict regulation. He was not some idealistic fool who didn't understand human nature, he said openly that if two businessmen are seen talking its likely they are figuring out a way to scam the market.

@@mikearchibald744 I’d never imply Adam Smith to be a fool! That man was brilliant and pivotal in taking the world away from Serfdom, but as many philosophers had, Adam Smith was stuck within the landscape of creating a Utopian society, his Capitalism has not been achieved yet. I’m speaking to the current era of capitalism, the one which prioritizes global trade and leveraging from banks and credit margins.

Sounds like "super" exploitation. I've heard some people say that the people in those laid back positions with the same job title as those most exploited are there because of time and grade. Makes sense, since we become less able as we age. However, it is not consistent that those doing less are less able or already did their time laboring hard. Rather something else is at play. Sometimes someone knew the right people and they got a cushy position because of it.

Weird, I’m not winging it. At all. I’m actually good at what I do.

@@joen8529 That's good to hear. Genuinely.

I'm a proud winger. Of course I would be honest if my job needed specific qualifications in order to not harm others such as first aid, but if it's another minimum-wage repetive work heck yeah I'm winging, everyone deserves to eat and sleep we don't have to be qualified for that, and if I have to wing in ordet to get there... You bet.

@@AlbaRoldanVesperinas True. In the end the problem isn't worker attitude. The problem is necessity caused by the work environment.

It's just not sustainable. If you have the impression that everyone around you is winging it, one of two things must be true (can be both at the same time): One) you're the only idiot around who doesn't really get what's going on Two) you're working in an unsustainable business that doesn't have efficient competition - YET. Doesn't really matter which one it is, because the conclusion is the same: if you don't feel stressed out by this state of affairs, enjoy it while it lasts. But keep in mind, competence is a real thing, and the more poor people are around, the higher the chance that someone who has less than you offers the same kind of product/service for less money, because they have figured out how to do things efficiently.

That's because you are delusional, comrade 😂😂

@@youtubehatesfreespeech2555 do you like it when they cut your salary? or do you like it more when they fire you for no reason?

@@apestogetherstrong341 dude, grow a pair. Nobody is obligated to make you happy. Who told you that the world owes you anything?

@@youtubehatesfreespeech2555 You never been poor have you?

@@youtubehatesfreespeech2555 *never experienced real economic strife and is spoon-feed: “The rich is entitle to gamble with the nation’s economy, losing your house is the way of life…. Not for me thought”

Ditto.

“Unexploitative boss is when pizza party” - Liberals, probably

You think thats bad? As a child, I used to think that Burton’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” was set in The USSR

Private island? What the fuck?

@@SuperChaos002 Just realized I worded this vaguely: it is a private island but not like HIS private island and nothing crazy exotic. It's a small island off the East Coast where small fry millionaires and even some heavy multi millionaires live (like two household name actors at least have *one of their homes* there, IIRC). It is, to be fair, only accessible (again, IIRC) by a guarded bridge and I would assume possible by boat. Proles definitely can't just wander over there but not some crazy tropical middle-of-the-ocean shtick. It's just weird because I didn't think he was THAT rich, like he owns 1 or 2 local businesses. Made me all the more irritated with his general miserliness.

@cherryhoneyricola Would definitely be interest to see more of this information be pursued. I try to firsthand suss out shit from people I talk to in the day-to-day, but I'm bad at being subtle and cloaking my language. Also, woah, CEO prophet, uh, WHAT? Also also, love the username, I was just eating so many Ricola recently that my throat was starting to get sore without em 😁

The idea is to look busy. Most jobs there is a way of doing it and the only real danger is the fucking snitch of the group

Simping for capitalism is soooo fucking beta

With this tips, we'll all become ligma males in no time!

I aim to completely annihilate all those guys but yeah basically

@@jane-wing i see you are an omicron male?

@@nevreiha smh my bead theta males are the real sigma males

First of all I won't allow anyone to say yugopnik without the title s̶h̶e̶i̶k̶h̶ marshall

Hi Marxist Paul!

@@CripplingDuality Based Tavarish commander field marshall Yugopnik.

@@mikejohnson555 is that a justified hierarchy?

@@michimatsch5862 He earned those titles on the field of battle, during the vodka wars. Some say he drank a entire bottle of stolichnaya and still sang the International without missing a word.

Elaborate?

@@azuregriffin1116 Well, solarpunk is partly a rejection of the negative future people tend to think will happen, a fight against that despair and apathy. Think a happier alternative to cyberpunk (which I thought was cool until I really learned what that would entail). We human beings CAN do better, we have the capacity. Climate change is here, but we can deal with it, we can adapt our way of life and can fight for a sincerely greener future while still having advanced tech, not this shallow cynical greenwashing the capitalists and similar do to appeal towards libs. It will be a struggle, one I may not see the end of as I am already 42 years old, but there is no reason to just let these fuckers continue playing us, driving us down into the pits. I refuse to go down without trying towards a brighter future than these scumbags will...permit...us to have.

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@@Voidsworn I get the vague idea already, though I enjoyed your bright outlook regardless. I just wanted to ask about how you integrate it into your life, if you do?

@@azuregriffin1116 I just started on the journey. So far, I am replacing certain consumables with easy to reproduce and nontoxic ones, such as laundry detergent and dish detergent with soap. Also am trying to find affordable plant based clothing (cotton, hemp, etc) I have been reading and watching lots of (food) plant growing methods. Baby steps, especially since I work full time and will be going back to college for my BAS in EE Tech full time and I have to show my wife what I am getting into to help her get involved :)

@aboutblankjeff system administrator

Absolutely based and techpilled

Based

José Martí was a liberal, not a communist nor socialist. He actually criticized communism. I'm Cuban and studied Marti a lot

@@ImmortalDemonV una didn’t say Marti was a socialist or communist.

@@ImmortalDemonV So in Cuba you have access to liberal content? Most people think you guys are not allowed to read anything besides marxist theories xD

@@ImmortalDemonV believe it or not, MARXISTS aren't afraid of quoting people with good ideas that aren't directly under their umbrella of ideology. This is called "being an adult"

Examples - I recently bought a phone. It cost me about $150. The minimum wage in my state is $12.00, so it would take me 12.5 hours to recoup that cost at minimum wage. I spend hours on my phone every day, so it makes sense to buy this phone. Now let's say I want a TV that costs $1000. That would take about 83 hours to pay for. I rarely watch TV and I don't play console video games, so I probably would only use that TV 83 hours after multiple years if ever. So I'll spend that $1000 on something I'll use more often.

Great formula! I would also add quality of joy. Sometimes a book is very short but expensive. Realistically I might finish it in an hour or two, and with your formula it might not be worth it. But the book might bring me enough joy to make it worth it! Same with movie tickets. Pre-pandemic times, cinema had already become fucking expensive in my country. Going to the cinema as a family was... not cheap. But I still "sacrificed" my money every once in a while for a two hour movie, because the cinematic experience brings me a lot of joy, especially if I go with my loved ones. So that's my addition.

@@vickytaa1 Oh see I like to count positive reflection upon time spent with the purchase as part of the purchase. I usually just pirate movies and books to watch/read on my phone, but the one media I'll spend money on sometimes is video games - if a really good video game is only 4 hours but it costs $60, I may spend that cash because I know I'm going to have good memories that way. Same goes for travel. A single trip for a few days may cost several hundred dollars, and you may only get to do what you went there to do for say 20 hours, but you'll keep that experience much longer than basically anything else. That's not even to mention all the stories you'll get to tell and the bonds you can make with others through shared experiences.

That's the logic most people who play video games uses lmao. Usually it's $1 for 1h of playtime.

@@TheButterMinecart1 A dollar an hour, are you insane? Half Life 2 is one of the greatest games of all time and it only lasted like 12 hours, Halo 3 campaign lasted like 8, don't even get me started on the CoD games lmao

Question related to farming. How do workers in slaughterhouses, where there are large incidents of PTSD, improve on their situation? Is there anything we can do to help? Similar question for meatpacking plants, where high incidents of covid19 were reported throughout the world, but were kept running and treated as "essential" work by governments. Bearing in mind how difficult it is to unionise because they are some of the most oppressed people, often enticed to work on visas from very poor places (whose work related health conditions sometimes start to show up after they've been sent back to their own country & the employer can clean their hands of responsibility), who end up taking that work that most of us consuming the products they create would not do once.

@@dontnoable this is probably not the answer. But i just wanted to say this question needs a video on its own since its an actual issue and why isn't it answered 😂😂😂😂😂

@@dontnoable I hate to say it, but sometimes we have to accept that there may not actually be anything we can do to help. While I'm sure someone more creative than me might be able to come up with an idea, I feel like it's still worth saying that there are times where there really isn't anything we can do (in the short term at least). What I always think about are the workers in Africa, Asia, and South America who are a world away but endure some of the worst conditions possible, and it is just incredibly inhumane and sad how grotesquely they're exploited by the imperial core. But that being said, I, as an American high school student preoccupied with trying to prepare for college, can't directly do anything to alleviate that. But what I can do is work to spread class conciousness and uplift those in my direct community. I along with some of my comrades here in Texas are working on starting up a mutual aid program, that helps not only with essential resources but also with study, offering free assistance to those in need. Focusing on issues people are having well outside your viscinity and attempting to fix them is (imho) exhaustive and seldom yeilds tangible results. Now if you've put together a whole group or something that's a different story, but nonetheless I'd argue that the best thing you can do are the small, local things in your community. If the opportunity presents itself, the movement may expand further, but in order for us to secure our future and the health of the world, we must first ensure the viability of the enviornment with which we surround ourselves.

@@DialecticRed All amazing things to do! Mutual Aid ftw. I guess when it comes to other issues such as how Amazon workers are treated, people boycott Amazon. Or boycott Nestle for their exploitation of children. It's an individual act that is seen as the right thing to do. But will people boycott animal products? It has turned out to be one of the most exploitative industries going. Not only are living beings turned into commodities themselves, but it is one of the worst work situations for human exploitation also. So I'm proposing people add animal products to their list to boycott. Because those commodities and jobs should not continue. A boycott doesn't solve the problem for all currently exploited, but it is as good a start as boycotting Amazon or Nestle, with immediate impact (also for the climate crisis), for folk who are able to. Those commodities & work only exist because we are participating in it (let's not forget billions in govt subsidies worldwide also, without which it would cost a lot to grow plants to feed to animals and raise them for 1-5 years - the true cost of animal products). Hi in Texas btw!

@@dontnoable Okay, that makes sense actually -- I'd definitely have to change my diet because it consists almost completely of meat products (which I'm guilty about), but I think I could get used to it if I tried. Someone should make a video about this

I can relate to this. The only difference is that I’m graduating HS this year. It’s really depressing seeing a bunch of kids you grew up with walk themselves straight into hell because everyone’s telling them to.

Aye, currently in the process of linkedin dive search here. Hope you got your job and are doing fine now, comrade

Words to live by!

I would say saving and investing would be the number one priority life Is turbulent

@Sanctus Paulus 1962 The Soviet Union, among others, specifically allowed for shotguns and rifles among the people.

@@jakekaywell5972 Uh, you've seen america right. They specifically allow for automatic weapons. But I don't really get your point.

Don’t…. If you can… fuck them… if you can, try to go for higher degree. I found it to be very helpful for job security and to tell idiots where to go and how to get there 😂 “ professionally “ of course. I have license, it’s difficult to replace me

@@Inga67100 Thats the ideal but with the cost of education its tough to get there.

@@Inga67100getting a higher education is certainly something I would like to do but I don’t have the time or the money to do it. Which I know everyone says that but it doesn’t make it less true. Between raising 2 kids, keeping up with our house, and working, I barely have enough time for any leisurely things assuming I can even do that. Good update I suppose from my original comment though is I just saw a psychiatrist last week and am on my 4th day of ADHD and depression medication and my head has felt… “clearer” I guess. Can’t quite describe it yet but I do feel better than I did days ago already so I’m feeling somewhat confident about my depression going forward. I should start seeing more results after a week of it and then a month so here’s hoping. Edit: not like anyone was asking for an update on my mental health just figured I would based on my original comment.

This is comedy gold 😆

"Now I have my boss sucking on my teat and it feels *so* good!"

Unfortunately physics related work is one of the few jobs that you can't bullshit your way into...

​@@TheButterMinecart1​ And if anyone want to BS their way as a physicist, don't go to academia. They pay in peanuts and words of appreciation.

@@5kamon *Cries in min wage salary of a physics graduate student*

I did not know that. how does it work

@@houseofhas9355 Swedish law enables rents to be negotiated by the renters association (of which you're most often part of if you rent) and the landlords. The actual rent payed is regulated in accordance with a number of parameters regarding the "use value" of the housing in question , not the market value.

@@RatchetClank93 Thank you for educating me on this. Do landlord make profit from owning properties?

And? Renting is stupid

@@houseofhas9355 yes of course, even the municipal building companies are required to be run for profit.

Oh man, I can't really recommend anything because I haven't read much on it. But I can share the sentiment. I'm not a medical worker but I'm a public education teacher. I can't half ass my job because the only ones who get hurt are my students. And the pay is not only terrible; it also doesn't account for the hundreds of extra hours we have to regularly work. Teachers only get paid for the hours spent inside a classroom teaching. But every hour of class requires time of preparation, time for correcting exams and student work, time for investigating and actualization of knowledge. I have calculated that for every six hours of teaching, I need at least (at least! Sometimes more) two extra hours of this work I mentioned before. It really is a terrible situation.

God that's what I'm dealing with

This is so true, very hard to find material on it

Yeah and just wait till you find out how exploitative work is in actual socialist societies.

@@bpj1805 Yeah, if you think people at the logistics aren't doing anything. Seriously, man, you just scared you're not getting the ruling class in your life? But seriously, that's what laws are for, my guy. You think 40 hours would still be a thing? More time for you to rest, find new hobbies and all that.

"I'm going to use all I can now to make a firm foothold for myself, using family connections, blatant posturing, and anything else I can." this is it, this is the way. losing that privilege without being able to use it to further the cause is a dead end, it's much better to use it in whatever way you can to further socialist goals than it is to be self righteous. good on you.

Use your slight privilege and stay true to what you believe in now. Dont be ashamed to have a bit of luck, meritocracy doesn't exist, good on you for having a family able to support like this!

If you have some spare cash put a little silver or gold away for a rainy day.

@@GazB85 no gold or silver, but got some bitcoin which is a good alternative imo.

How can you endure your own family when they are liberal pro-capitalists?

Well, many stores find the routine of appearing in court to prosecute a big hassle and so they just put up your picture and deny shoplifters the use of their stores. Now imagine that you need to go 5 more miles every couple of days to do your food shopping.

@@leovolont Don't shit where you eat.

@@vxicepickxv Interesting advice. What did you learn the hard way, or was that a favorite expression of your mothers? Really, I don't know what they heck you are trying to say. It must be some kind of a low life expressions or one of those Street Wise things, huh? What was it again? "Don't schitt where you sit". It's not really something I need to be told.

@@leovolont your extremely childish and bad-faith BS aside, the advice is to shoplift somewhere further than your local store. Casual loss of merchandise is just the cost of business under capitalism where bare necessities are gatekept behind toiling for a master instead of guaranteed as a right as it should. Especially cruel is that even those who break their backs for their bosses will oftentimes still struggle to keep a roof over their head and healthy food in their belly. Oh, and fun fact - by commenting here you have boosted this video in the algorithm and have contributed to spreading it to more eyes!

@@patriciapandacoon7162 Good Morning Patricia, Really, Patty, think about your Mind Set. Look at what you say: "Oh, and fun fact - by commenting here you have boosted this video in the algorithm and have contributed to spreading it to more eyes!" My guess is you think I would have a problem with that. Who do you think I am? What do you think my mindset is? Patty I am not the Tails to your Heads... I am not You but on the Other Side. I am an Intellectual, and Intelligent Leftist with College Degrees and that kind of thing. I subscribe to this Channel. I comment in order to show My Fellow Leftists that what we are doing is running Counter to Achieving Our Objectives. Now, think about the Moral Training of advocating Shop Lifting. Patty, what if we ever Win the Revolution. Then it will be OUR SYSTEM that would inherit all your Materialistic Nihilism, wouldn't it? Also, Patty, we are all ambassadors to our Cause. yes, you can shoplift a 1000 times and not get caught and the store owner press charges, but it happens. Patty, people watch, people see, people talk. Every Town is a Small Town. Unless you go from Town to Town like the Gypsies somebody will eventually put a stop to you and the Local Board of Commerce will throw a Dinner for you. But, yeah, this is a Leftist Channel that is advancing Low Life Advocacy and Training. Do you thing Doctor Martin Luther King ever calling for Thieving when you can get away with it...most the time? Also, Patty, we hear so much about how we suffer. Patty, we should suffer. It keeps us from having more children. More of US keeps wages down and besides, the Machine Intelligence Age is right around the corner and soon there will be NO JOBS, no, not for any Business... only Institutions that call for PERSONS... Courts will need Judges and Advocates. If it takes a Doctor to sign paperwork there will be Doctors who only sign paperwork. But Robots and Network Supercomputer Predictive Modeling and Analysis Systems will do the rest. Okay, Patty, what will be the Workers place in THAT World? We won't have a place. Patty, it is about time we Give Up Hope, right? Think about Global Warming. How much Carbon Dioxide is generated having to support the Consumerism of 6 Billion USELESS Former Workers? Patty THEY WILL WANT US TO FIRE THE FIRST SHOT IN OUR LEFTIST REVOLUTION to give them an excuse to DECLARE US TERRORISTS , which, if you have noticed, strips one of all Legal Protections and Terrorists are Collective Groups, not Individuals... they could just Carpet Bomb our Congressional Districts. Yeah, Patty, I studied History. I am about as morally sensitive as a Las Vegas Odds Maker. Inequality of Wealth has never been greater and Machine Intelligence will give the Billionaires their own Machine Armies... they won't need the State... they will have MORE POWER than any State. We Will Lose. Watch my Video Series "Revolution From the Top"... less than a half hour for the 3 parts. The only Wild Card is China. They might Transition using their Social Credit System and they could Depopulate willingly once they all understand that The Slices Get Bigger The Less People Are Invited To The Pizza Party. The World would be better and funner with 10 Million Super Rich then with 10 Billion Scratchers and Scapers out of Mad Max Blade Runner.

I've seen some pictures of ancoms eat McDonald's food and the people in comments be like: hahaha. It's a real meme :/

Well, the difference between Capitalism and Socialism is simply whether the Banks are Private or Public. Yeah, we all like to eat but it still makes sense to think about What Might Be Better.... Privately Owned Banks or Publicly Controlled Banks.

@@leovolont I don't want banks, regardless if private of public. I want currencies, governments and classes to disappear and become nothing more than history.

@@Luca-si5fy Hi Luca... you made another comment, about the Monastic Ascetic Ideal... let me pick you up on that one.

@@Luca-si5fy Governments can stay, it's state rule that I want gone 🤮

I support the work that you do, but i mean speaking of consumerism drinking a lot of beer and alcoholic beverages is basically proof that you fell down into this consumerist rabbit hole yourself, and the fact that capitalists delightfully roll with it when people try to brand alcoholism with culture is even a bigger problem when trying to appropriate these "alcoholic" cultures which ends up with a lot of alcohol being consumed in favor of the capitalist feeding us shit we don't need. Speaking of a fish that understands it's in a barrel of piss for drunkards, you should be the first to address these cultural stereotypes instead of just roll with it and start drinking yourself in order to attract an audience. They give us shit wages, and then they feed us with alcohol with the few money that we are given in order to keep us docile and impotent. Drinking is just another way of escaping the reality the fish is in and hence rendering it an even bigger consumerist asset.

@@Devodex drinking to excess is a problem, but simply enjoying alcohol is not a problem nor submission to consumerism. Same with smoking tobacco or marijuana, so long as you can maintain moderation. Taking mind-altering substances can be attractive for many reasons besides escaping the reality of capitalism, but I can see why you make the connection and raise the issue.

@@spectator8285 my point is these items are also useless consumerist items created for profit, like most things in world. Whether its alcohol, tobacco, marijuana or cocaine. These were found to be profitable and hence the mass production for them even though they in no way truly help you out. The guy also points this out in his video, only buy things you truly need and limit consumerism. Well then do you really need alcohol and tobacco? There are other ways to experience happiness and release dopamine, items like alcohol and other drugs, whether low or high tier, end up ultimately making you crave the consumable more, which is why you end up having to "moderate" yourself. This ultimately makes alcohol even more worthless to buy than something like a diamond ring. You possess a diamond ring and wasted hard earned labour money for useless shiny material, but you're not becoming less productive by constantly buying and drinking; consuming alcohol and feeling the need to buy more because of the addiction it creates for releasing dopamine. There's a reason why they tie alcohol to many occasions, and in some cultures it simply becomes expected to consume alcohol in certain occasions, but if you're Russian, then I guess vodka is in your blood? Get my point?

What is the source of the AR-esque footage in the background during the money portion of the video?

you should do a video about Communist music, similar to the fascist outfits video. I think it would be quite interesting.

I think the video you're looking for is called 'HYPER-REALITY'

@@cloudthief8918 That does seem to be it. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/kXqYZGigrY-rtKc.html

@@Gayfrogscollective we watched that in my grade 10 English course and had to write an essay or something on consumerism and technology - good class

Saw that video a long time ago. It's not even just capitalism, is the utter eyesore.

That’s frightening. If the world gets any closer to that I’m sticking a gun in my mouth.

Oh boy. Academic publishing is one of the biggest industries of our time. Researchers are doing free labor for them and burning out because they feel so priviledged and like their labor has a greater purpose. Be careful.

@@sanjahakala3063 I’m very aware of the fact that academic publishing is fucked the privilege is getting a big lump of money from the state to do what I want for 4 years. Blue skies research is really unproductive as so little of it has commercial utility. It is a public good and will never get paid the true value as that value may not be realised in the short term. And don’t worry I am very aware of exit routes during my career journey to pharmaceuticals and industry.

Or a trade union. Plumbers, Sheet metal workers, HVAC, laborers, machine operators. Just search "local" on whatever gps app you use to find them near you. Usually hard to get into because of nepotism and racism but it's worth trying to get into one. Once they train you and you become a licensed journeyman tradesman you can use that to become self employed.

Hvala brate!

Yeah, I once worked for a defense contractor and we needed to finish out the contract in 30 days and so we were working 12 hour days, but then the bean counters realized that everybody was just 'pacing themselves'... but a little more work was getting done.

Getting paid overtime?

@@vg7985 yeah. They just turned Sunday on though so it's 66 hours now. Sure overtime is great but fuck I'd like to sleep in at least one day a week.

You better be getting paid 1.5x minimum or this is some beta capitalist simp bullshit my friend

LMAOOO

But Unionized Companies can't compete with Free Companies. Think about if YOU wanted to start up your own company. Would you want the Hired Help to be telling you what to do? Screw Them, right?

@@leovolont umm, I would be greatful for every tip I could get in the beginning. Also, unionization hasn't the goal of being as competitive.

@@leovolont unionize the free companies. They're too rich 🤑

@@Tankliker Hi Leopard. Oh, I'm putting a new Blog through Editorial Re-writes and did did a play on words with "A Leopard can't change it's spots"... I said, "If you think a Leopard can't change their spots, well these 'Leopards' are cats of a a different stripe." Cool, hu? NOW to business. You say the Goal of Unionization hasn't the goal of being competitive. Well, yeah, that's obvious. But are you talking about Unionizing Public or Private Corporations. Private Corporations would certainly prioritize competitiveness. Even Not For Profit Corporations would resist Unionization because Management can't Plan ahead on anything INTELLIGENTLY because nobody knows what the Workers will demand, and even Not For Profit Corporations need to be Efficient. Look at the Police Unions. In the USA the reason there is such a problem with the Police is because the Cop Unions act as a Second Chain of Command that actively works against the Actual Chain of Command. They do their Own Training (which is really fascist), and they train to be utter cowards... which is where "Shoot if you are Afraid" comes from. We ALL see the destructiveness of Cop Unions because WE suffer from all that Union Bullcrap. But EVERY Union is full of their own Bullcrap. Remember, the Workers have no Ownership Stake in the Company. Have you ever heard of Workers Pooling their Money to BUY Stock so they could elect Members to the Board of Directors? NO. Unless they do that, well, THEY JUST WORK THERE, right? Besides, the Point is almost mote now. The Machine Intelligence Age is swiftly overtaking us and it will be a Blessing and a Curse. Machines Will Liberate Humanity Once and For All from Labor and Wage Slavery. Cool huh? But we will lose our jobs. Watch my Short Series "Revolution From the top" for my ideas there (which I think I will update, having gotten a few new ideas... that come to me while I am doing hundreds of Comments). Leopard, you have a problem with your Perspective. You think Workers are important because they are people. Well, yeah, that shows that you have a sense of Social Morality which is cool. But, Social Morality is PERSIAN and the West is GREEK and that means that the West, the FREE West is BARBARIAN. We do not live by the Social Moral Ethos but by the Heroic or Barbarian Ethos, which is reallly Winner Take All. Might makes Right. Also, Money IS Power and the Rich have never had more Money. Inequality is at a Historical High. Yeah, the Left is banking on Democracy but remember that Capitalists CREATED WESTERN Democracy because they felt they could manage it through control of the Parties and the Media. As soon as the Leftists WIN any elections then Capitalists will PULL OUT. Yeah, see my Series "Democracy Is a Bad Thing". You've heard Leftists talk about Violent Revolution because they can't make Democracy work for them. So we can expect the Capitallists to take the same view, that NOBODY is entitled to their Property because of some Stupid Vote. Of course Poverty Stricken Beggars will VOTE to Confiscate Wealth, but it doesn't belong to them, does it? Yeah, you can argue the point with them, but it just sounds silly. It would be like you and your friends got together for a party and VOTED to SELL Peter's 2022 Toyota Lexus for enough money to order Six Pizza Pies and a Keg of Beer. Peter would tell you all to screw off, right? Also, Machine Intelligence will give the Super Rich IN-House power. I don't know why we haven't seen it already, but it wouldn't take that much to build Killer Drones with Off the Shelf Parts. And the Rich could make them Autonomous with built in Target Lists and Facial Recognition. What are they going to do... arrest a Drone? These Assassination Systems could be manufactured in Workerless Factories which means NO WITNESSES. This Technology is really form fit for 5G and so when 5G Coverage ever gets Coast to Coast then Hit Men will go out of business. Heck, it would be so EASY. You can have a Drone that could cruise on Wings and Electric Power at about 700 feet where nobody would hear or see it. It would only have to be large enough to carry a SMALL DENSE Heavy Dronelet designed to fall out of the sky and guide in on striking the Targets head. It would just need enough wing and control surfaces to adjust course but the Mother Drone will be smart enough to drop it into the "ball park". Guidance is EASY. You know the Anti-Jitter feature on Cameras... that circuit can be used as LOCK ON TARGET guidance. No shots fired. Somebody is walking up to a Rally Podium and THUNK just collapses to the ground with brains all over the place. So, yeah, Leopard, if you want to be realistic then give up Hope in Revolutionary Politics or Leftist Politics. The only way things could ever change is if the Capitalist Ownership Classes decided to be Socially Moral, but, the West is Greek, but the Good Guys were Persian. It would take the biggest miracle in the History of the World and the Left doesn't even believe in God.

@@imold5363 As they say "money is power" and so there is no way that Corporations could be imposed upon to accept Unionization. You know Rich People don't HAVE TO create companies and make products. Look how easy it is to just make 10% on your Investment just by riding a rising Stock Market, and then Going Short to make money again as the market drops. We play Ball the way the Owners want or they simply will refuse to play.

Absolutely! This point is missing from this presentation.

I work as a teacher - Its a hard balance because your students need you but at the same time you have to avoid burnout...

@@Gergenuss I felt this. I’m a first year teacher and college did not prepare me well for the emotional toll teaching takes on you, especially if you work in a low SES area.

@@traibikis4729 Its rough I think you have it harder than me - I work in a Denmark my wage is at least quite decent, I have somewhat autonomy in what I teach and I dont have to find teaching supplies. My best advice is to try to get out of bullshit meetings or prepare classes while at bullshit meetings.