The people who are responding to this (in a non-joking way) believing that Chomsky is justifying not working are missing the point. Inherently, people *want* to participate in society. In non-capitalistic societies, people still work and contribute--they just don't do it while having all their time and activities dictated by a company.

@kenneth_romero

7 ай бұрын

I believe he further elaborates in another conversation with an analogy of growing food for yourself vs others. Where for yourself it feels a bit more like leisure because you understand you're doing it for you. whereas for someone else you don't have that euphoric feeling of "if i get better it'll be better for me"

@corylong5808

7 ай бұрын

The big issue with his point here is it ignores starting your own business as an option. That and obviously you can pick your job far more directly than you can pick your government. Noam is obviously well aware of both of these points as they are core to his Anarcho-Syndicalist beliefs, however Noam is never against contradicting himself to sound more persuasive.

@Nicolas-ll3cz

7 ай бұрын

No. Chomsky is trying to get us to the point where we still contribute to society, but using our talents. When you exercise your talent to the benefit of others, you are happy and fullfilled.

@captainbeastazoid7084

7 ай бұрын

Well, tell me: in non-capitalistic societies, who or what dictates people's time and activities?

@marcblank3036

7 ай бұрын

​@@corylong5808still even as your own business you can not escape to be enslaved by the government. In a socialist system this reality be worse

When Chomsky says it, he's a genius. When I say it I'm a lazy bum.

@cbraat27

Жыл бұрын

Nah he’s a lazy bum

@aek12

Жыл бұрын

You demand the opinion of slaves.

@hyzercreek

Жыл бұрын

Chumpsky is a lazy bum. He feels the same way about bathing as he does about working. "The bath tub is a totalitarian fascist, because if I don't bath I stink."

@Star-lv1gk

10 ай бұрын

​@@aek12 Years of slavery make slaves psychologically ill and cause them to invent a fantasy world, where the slave-masters are good guys. The goal in life becomes serving the slave-masters ideas with the end goal of getting a higher position as a slave, which naturally most often is just an empty and meaningless dream, which even if it comes true, does not bear any good fruit for society as a whole. Anything contradicting the slave-masters is seen as a threat for the created fantasy world. The slaves fear the slave-masters very much and don't want to lose their low position.

@marca4443

10 ай бұрын

Don't get cute ... fair point tho.

When your dad asks you to mow the lawn

@liammckenna1479

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't think I'd be seeing a fresh comment from this channel here

@plneet3504

2 жыл бұрын

CHANNEL 5 IS LEFT PROPAGANDA

@liammckenna1479

2 жыл бұрын

@@plneet3504 In general they do like to go to right wing events and show what ridiculous things happen there but I don't know if it's fair to call that left wing propaganda

@otherboi125

2 жыл бұрын

@@liammckenna1479 NEUTRAL COVERAGE OF RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM IS LEFT PROPAGANDA

@kentallard8852

2 жыл бұрын

He isn't objecting to work, he is objecting to compelled work.

*Me at Thanksgiving when my family asks if I've gotten a job yet*

@bendover2425

8 ай бұрын

Why haven’t you? Fucking loser scourge of society

@michaeljeffery7466

8 ай бұрын

Lol

@Nomad0311

7 ай бұрын

Go work ya bum. It'll give you a sense of independence and some money to spend. You don't want to buy stuff on your own????

@snufkin4568

7 ай бұрын

Wild to have 500+ thumbs ups and only 2 replies counting mine.

@ahuramazda980

7 ай бұрын

Lmfao

Ive been aware of this since childhood. It was clear to me even then. And my entire life ive been ridiculed for it. Ive had a job since my teenage years. Im not lazy. I just don't think our mission here on earth is to voluntarily enslave ourselves to capitalism. If that makes me crazy, lazy, or unrealistic, then I guess that's what i am

@user-pm8je4fo7e

7 ай бұрын

Sheeeeet, partner. It's does not take much to state that our mission is not trading our precious time for comfort (or even necessities). But what is your mission? This is the question that broke many who were greater than you and me. Submitting yourself to capitalism, even when you are on top of it, it the ultimate escape. Worst case scenario you just bish and moan for a couple of years after you hit your middle age. But going outside this existing framework will make your whole life a one long spiritual battle. The choice is yours, but anticipate even greater tall that you'd normally expect.

@franingegnieri1831

7 ай бұрын

You think working equals to be a slave of capitalism?? Man you must think outside of the box for a minute, who says that is your mission on earth?? You??

@davidmccue3591

7 ай бұрын

@@user-pm8je4fo7e Absolutely correct, sir. Sadly.

@davidmccue3591

7 ай бұрын

@@dylancounte1448 You're absolutely correct. Just standing up and walking to the bathroom and sitting down to drop a deuce involves an incredible amount of labor. Gravity ensures that absolutely nobody makes it through this life without working hard. But you're conflating two separate arguments --neither of which have much to do with wage slavery, which is what I'm talking about and what the video is about. It's not about working. It's about having a job. Absolutely everyone does and everyone must work. Period, as you say.

@davidmccue3591

6 ай бұрын

@@dylancounte1448 Did you even watch the video, my friend? Because if you had watched it and knew what was being discussed here you would not be so hopelessly confused. Good day.

Me: I promise I won't get all political *Two beers later*

@newbadthings

2 жыл бұрын

Lmfao! Bingo.

@Rhapsolin

2 жыл бұрын

azan

@missrachael1709

2 жыл бұрын

Oh Rufous yep that's me to a tee.....except vino instead of beer normally. Stay passionate, get angry sometimes but laugh wholeheartedly above all else. Peace.

"Yes, you are free to starve." 😂 😂 😂

@Dutch_Engineer_Piff_Dahnk

2 жыл бұрын

heard of welfare, this mentality is degeneracy

@krunkle5136

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dutch_Engineer_Piff_Dahnk the problem is lack of consistency. Some towns are much better than others at taking care of their poor and helping with employment even. Moving out isn't a good solution because oftentimes people don't know that there's better elsewhere especially in a giant country like USA. The risk doesn't outweigh just staying with what you know.

@Dutch_Engineer_Piff_Dahnk

2 жыл бұрын

@@krunkle5136 yes you're free to starve is a dishonest emotional argument. Controlling the narrative with a lie. It's like go outside, look at the primary source. Many people are listening to a guy and believing everything without thinking or reasearching. Have you heard of EBT cards?

@Dutch_Engineer_Piff_Dahnk

2 жыл бұрын

@@krunkle5136 EBT cards/foodstamps unemployment was 3.5 % in 2019

@RFmath_

2 жыл бұрын

You're free to work for a company that treats you well -_-. How did that Venezuela endorsement turn out for ya Chomsky?

Being employed is the most humiliating experience besides being enslaved. And so common too!

The reason I became self-employed as soon as I could.

@patricksquinlan1

6 ай бұрын

Same here. I wage-slaved until I was 25, then got out. I spent approximately three years inside the 9 to 5. It was more than enough. It was like reading 1984, except YOU are the main character.

@anthonybrett

5 ай бұрын

Me too, but in the end, you slowly realise that you always have a boss. Even if you're self employed, if you don't keep the customer happy (the boss) then you don't get paid. We are always a slave to something. We always serve a higher purpose, even if that purpose is to put food on the table. The only difference for us is, we get to pick who we want to work for each day.

@bsfan6150

5 ай бұрын

@@anthonybrett True, but I have “fired” quite a few clients who began to act like toxic bosses. I’ve been lucky to have been able to do that. Now retired on my own terms and grateful for it.

@anthonybrett

5 ай бұрын

@@bsfan6150 "I have “fired” quite a few clients who began to act like toxic bosses." Haha, well done. I've certainly been "choosy" myself. Congrats on retirement, I'm sure it was well earned. ;)

@davidmccue3591

5 ай бұрын

When you start a business, you're engaging in commerce. Yes, commerce is a huge part of a capitalist system. An integral part, even. But Capitalism is a political economic system. It goes further than just the exchange of goods and services.

When you are 28 living with your parents and your mom tells you to get a job:

@JugglinJellyTake01

2 жыл бұрын

I prefer Billy Bragg's - "St Monday's Still The Weekend For Me" calling for a 4 day week.

@Dreamer23245

2 жыл бұрын

The whole "STILL living with your parents" sillyness should be adressed a little more though. We all know that in different parts of the world we have very different economies and different situations regarding that. So the whole "still with your parents" is a little outdated today as of our economies(especially if you look at the prices of housing and/or apartments) are just different. So it shouldn't be a thing anymore really used to shame or show some kind of lazyness. Not saying people aren't lazy but the picture is a little bigger than that. If you just compare pricing of average wage to regular rent you will see it's not exactly easy to maintain financially. Especially how in most countries food prices have gone up. So some countries (and this has gone down for a decade now) it's actually OK to live with parents untill you have saved up so you can actually afford something. There just is no other way in most. Just look at the UK and how many people and youth are in big debts unable to pay them off and getting their giro right? It's not that simple. And the blame TODAY is mostly on the system and not on the young people who actually do work and just aren't making enough. It's not all black and white anymore. It's shades of grey.

@NarraJoker12

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dreamer23245 Bruh it was a joke you didn't have to write a whole paragraph about it

@Dreamer23245

2 жыл бұрын

@@NarraJoker12 All the same. My point was we should probably stop using that as a blame, shame or joke. Whatever you wanna call it.

@NarraJoker12

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dreamer23245 It's a joke, it's not that deep. Don't try to make it something bigger than it actually is.

Practices to watch out for: - they employ predominantly teenagers (low wages) - they offer minimum wages - zero hour contracts - they offer only statutory rights (holidays sick pay) - they're a franchise - they spend a fortune on advertising - they are open every day of the year and all hours - they squeeze out competition - they're always recruiting Don't work there, don't spend there, or if you do go there to unionise.

@kimonodragon9099

2 жыл бұрын

wow i literally just left a company because they did all of these things! i thought it was just me but i started noticing crazy turnover and they always hired black teenagers almost exclusively. and this company is a mega retailer. they made $12billion last year while the CEO gave himself a $2million raise. i got 40 cents after one year.

@JugglinJellyTake01

2 жыл бұрын

@@kimonodragon9099 Yeah such companies tend to tick more than one box. Time there was a maximum wage or 90% tax bracket at a certain level. Hope you got something better as your actions are a small but vital part of the 99% of democratic process that occurs between voting. We need to protest and thrive.

@waikard267

2 жыл бұрын

mate your just describing unskilled work. Why would a job that all 8 billion people in the world and literal machines are capable of doing offer high benefits and wages?

@johnbrooke6867

2 жыл бұрын

@@waikard267 Because the system collapses without a cycle of people earning money and then spending it. But if robots could do all the work then they only important thing people could do was spend their money at whatever businesses they prefered to.

@jacob8949

2 жыл бұрын

@@waikard267 Because the market shouldn't dictate who deserves a decent standard of living.

Just being born is the start of it ....dragged into a situation you didn't ask for

@jareddavis9012

Жыл бұрын

You don't like being alive?

@sam.lipchutz

Жыл бұрын

Very true. Before I was born I experience zero pain, sadness, fear, regret, loneliness, anger, or exhaustion. It was infinitely more peaceful and better.

@carlosgarcia-jz3dq

Жыл бұрын

necesity is a greedy tyrant

@danny1229c

11 ай бұрын

There is absolutely nothing stopping you from achieving non existence right now ! Infact you have my full support to stop your own existence right now, be my guest 👍

@danny1229c

11 ай бұрын

​@@sam.lipchutzfeel free to not exist again, go right ahead 😂👍

The worst is forcing Mothers to work, leaving their babies in someone else's care, then sending multiple billions of dollars into a useless proxy war.

@shortchubbyneckbeard1681

Жыл бұрын

Well people shouldn’t be paying for other people’s children. Childless people shouldn’t pay for those that did have kids, unless they do so voluntarily through charity.

@abiudjoseph6136

Жыл бұрын

@@shortchubbyneckbeard1681I agree, but instead of providing aid to needy Americans, our money is going into a black hole, by our corrupt Government. I'd rather it go to help American children. The same corrupt Government promotes fatherless children.

@wellesradio

10 ай бұрын

@@shortchubbyneckbeard1681I’m also child-free, but I understand the math. You always pay. Better that it should go to improving your society than addressing it after the fact. Even without a degree in statistics and certification in urban planning, I learned that lesson as a kid just from watching Spiderman.

@bobwoods1302

10 ай бұрын

We're sending weapons to Ukraine not money Russian. Russia can go home if it doesn't want war.

@Black.Sabbath

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely. It's all upside-down.

Anyone stuck working a dangerous job under a fickle boss would argue, yes, they can indeed murder or maim you legally.

@abstractbrainscans

8 ай бұрын

Some jobs maybe, most jobs can’t murder you though, however they can take your life…

@tempesta1229

8 ай бұрын

Most jobs are not that dangerous. More dangerous jobs generally pay more. Don't like the job then leave.

@superduty4556

8 ай бұрын

​@@tempesta1229this is not a safe space for logic

@benjaminaristotleboes3157

5 ай бұрын

Driving to work is dangerous anymore.... Wait until there's an accident and your premium goes through the roof, except you're already broke....

@env0x

4 ай бұрын

@@tempesta1229 the thousands of Congolese kids working in cobalt mines: 🤕

All of a sudden I don't feel so bad about not having a job, thank you Mr Chomsky

@emresario001

8 ай бұрын

Work with people that you like, use your time, is valuable.

@nickb839

8 ай бұрын

“Free to starve” but live in a shelter getting free food. Flipping weed, white, you name it. Thousand dollar profits from Swing trades on the side.

@nickb839

8 ай бұрын

For losers find your own avenue then having a job isn’t recommended.

@oldmate99

7 ай бұрын

Get a job ya bum!

@______4790

7 ай бұрын

being unemployed some of the best parts of my life. Having a job and freedom is good too

the calmest way to say "its all bullshit"

"I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement in the U.S. that thinks Americans are not selfish enough." - Christopher Hitchens

@Dutch_Engineer_Piff_Dahnk

2 жыл бұрын

Well here comes the movement that thinks jobs are subjugation, and Americans shouldn't have to work for a living

@FardtilUshid

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dutch_Engineer_Piff_Dahnk You should be able to live off the land for free and work hard for yourself, preparing for winter and having enough food. But people want everything to be a mall

@WishIWasClever

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dutch_Engineer_Piff_Dahnk nice strawman dumbass

@Dutch_Engineer_Piff_Dahnk

2 жыл бұрын

@@FardtilUshid you should and corrupt politicians make it increasingly more difficult. We do know that giant farming companies produce more per sq foot of land. However i agree people who feel oppressed working for others should work for themselves instead, but western nations aren't equally economically free. Neither side is truly happy with the capitalist system in place

@Dutch_Engineer_Piff_Dahnk

2 жыл бұрын

@@WishIWasClever that's literally what people believe.... have you read the green new deal. If you don't work you still get taken care if

Imagine Noam Chomsky as a 16 year old boy and the narrator as his mom telling him to get a summer job

@paxnorth7304

2 жыл бұрын

"Look mom, they want me to 'take the customer's orders'. It's basically chattel slavery all over again".

@anarchistjesus7354

2 жыл бұрын

Except the crux of his argument doesn't apply to 16 year old who has the support of their parents. Your argument is just an ad hominen attempting to characterize anyone criticizing the current structure as childish. The reality is those who respond to cogent criticism in that manner are actually the ones who are childish. Just keep licking that boot man.

@wadecurtis1769

2 жыл бұрын

@UCi0uSX-M0wMM_3udGnJwE7Q How is what this guy saying childish and what noam said a critique? He's not saying we need better wages or rights or that big business gets away with a lot, he's saying that a boss telling you what you can and cannot do is tyrannical and so is having to work to eat. That's something I thought when I was 14 and even then I was smart enough to see through it 😊. If I fire someone for being high on dope to the point of drooling and face planting in front of customers does that make me a tyrant? I didn't want them to be homeless and starving, I wanted them to have a job and my actions show that because I gave them the job, THEY wanted to be homeless and starve and that shows by their actions. When I was a teenager I thought to myself "my mom cooks for me everyday and doesn't charge me so it's free right? But it's not because someone had to raise and slaughter that cattle, someone had to package all the food, someone had to drive it to the store, someone had to stock the shelf and my mother (god bless her soul) had to cook it.. all of those somebody's ARE entitled to compensation for their work and I'm NOT entitled to free food. Soooo, people like noam who say "I shouldn't have to work to not starve" ironically means for them to "not starve" people must do THEIR JOBS haha. I'm sure if all of those previous mentioned someones wanted to be paid for their work they would say "they're tyrants because they would rather us starve and hold society hostage"... How doesn't that end with mass graves? So to add to the comment above Noam: "Maaaaa, they don't have my favorite ice cream" Noam's mom: "well sweetie, you said having a job is tyranny so the manufacturers and truck drivers stopped working" Noam: "gosh, what a bunch of tyrants, I don't deserve to starve" People, don't be an old bum who thinks like a 15 year old like Noam. Get out there a crush it by working hard, making money, staying faithful to your family and telling the government to fuck off constantly 😁. You're responsible for you and entitled to nothing but your freedoms and liberties, none of which includes not working.

@sivanmisgav9468

2 жыл бұрын

@@anarchistjesus7354 I don't think that was the attempt man... just a little good humor I hate to explain a joke but just imagine a 16 year old arguing this well against getting a job to his parents, its funny... if anything its a view that is supportive of Chomsky's speech you see? because if it wasn't a good argument it wouldn't be funny. good luck out there

@johnhein2539

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, that's about right

"Private tyrannies are the worst kind of tyrannies" *The Gulag Archipelago has entered the chat*

@MrMascaradow

7 ай бұрын

What, that shitty ass book with little to none serious historiographical work? ok

@hamburgerdan101

6 ай бұрын

*Capitalist propaganda has entered the chat*

@itsnotatoober

5 ай бұрын

@@hamburgerdan101 You have no alternative

@someonenotnoone

5 ай бұрын

@@itsnotatoober That is enforced by capitalists.

@my3bikaht88

5 ай бұрын

@@someonenotnoone Actually... since in communism every enterprise is managed by the bureaucrats, greatest incentive for any such manager is not to increase production or care about employees. Greatest incentive is to profit from the managerial position. And that's why USSR collapsed. Communism works only for agrarian societies, when you don't need concentration of the capital or workforce or means of production.

The only problem we have today is the amount working hours. I just see no reason, with todays means of machinery, automatization, transport and communication, that we still have to work 40 hour weeks and probably 30% of people do 50+ hour weeks. I just see no reason other than greed and the system's desire to have us not have much free time to question anything or develop ourselves. 30 hour a week should be plenty enough to get everything done not to mention this would obliterate unemployment.

@Dzanarika1

Жыл бұрын

A free man thinks, uses the brain, and they are terrified of that....mind control is their main job.

@GOSTDatingandLifestyle

10 ай бұрын

You articulated well the million dollar question. With all the innovation and automation why are we seemingly more pushed than 50 years ago to make ends meat? The answer is corruption and greed. Our western rulers are more corrupt than is necessary, it needn't be so bad. But it requires a big change

@CBT5777

10 ай бұрын

You nailed it. Furthermore if "they" paid more money, part time work would be enough to live on. Inflation is a tax on the poor.

@rickkyi4879

10 ай бұрын

The 40 hour work week is a relic from a 1938 law, the Fair Labor Standards Act. Shouldn’t humanity seek to work less hours than we did in 1938

@outlander234

10 ай бұрын

@@rickkyi4879 Yes we should. With advent of all this ai and robotics they still dont talk about less hours... They keep saying how unemployment will be a problem but fail to say how less hours could cover that up. They just dont want is to have work life balance, they will instead create the working and non working class.

This is why I work for myself

@christophdenner8878

6 ай бұрын

But you're still a slave to your customers and society as a whole.

As soon as i got graduated from architecture in 1990, I told my father I don't want to work as an employee. He was surprised. I told him I wanted to work as a freelancer. He hardly approved it. I'm 59 today and still working as a freelancer, free, happy, with no control over me. Thank God who helped me work freely all those years.

@maxkelly6664

8 ай бұрын

I’d love to know how you achieved this? I’m a graduate of architecture, I got my bachelors in 2021 and masters due 2024, how would I work freelance and actually get work?

@NJC2874

8 ай бұрын

@maxkelly6664 it was in the 1990s, and I was lucky my father was an architect too and had his own office. So I started by snatching some studies for individuals here and there, so income was piling up slowly slowly. Then, after 3 years, I encouraged my father to go into entrepreneurship by starting a family business in real estate, constructing small residential buildings, and then selling them as small apartments to earn our living. That's what happened. My father sold a land he had, got money, and bought with the money the first land, and we started construction. We've constructed many projects so far. My father died in 2006. Before he dies, he congratulated me for having won my bet in working as a freelancer. So I continued alone since then till today. Well, I must say I was lucky my father had a capital to start with. It was a push, of course. The thing is, you don't have "to be fearful" if you want to work on your own. If you're afraid not to find a client or you're impatient to have money in your pocket, then you'll surely run to employment. Remember that working as a freelancer or self-employed doesn't fit all kinds of people and characters. You need to be an alpha or sigma male to have the guts to throw yourself into the unknown, otherwise better for you to be employed, for it's more stable as a steady income for you.

@chrisl8815

7 ай бұрын

@@NJC2874Very inspiring stories for those of us looking to emancipate ourselves from this corporate slavery struggle.

@Seba-hy9du

7 ай бұрын

Crazy that you'll study for 5 years and they don't even consider teaching you how to sell yourself on freelance. I'll give you this advice: don't ask on youtube. Find successful ones in your vicinity and try to get them to show you how.

@NJC2874

7 ай бұрын

After my long experience working freelance, I think that after graduation, a minimum of 3 years of work, as internship, in a well-known company, getting basic experience in the field is important, if not mandatory. You need to see how the work is done correctly so you can do it yourself later on professionally. Once you learn the basics while working for somebody, strengthening your wings a little bit, then you'll be able to fly on your own. A lawyer or a doctor is forced to make those few years of training before going on his own. In architecture, it's the same story. Now, once you're on your own, then it's up to your skills, integrity, and performance that will decide if you'll continue flying, or rather fall, and consequently get back to employment to save yourself from bankruptcy. You'll be tested as a freelancer. So good luck if you want to give it a try.

This is how I felt at every job I ever had. I'm glad I no longer need to work.

@glowiever

8 ай бұрын

you retired?

@WhoThisMonkey

8 ай бұрын

@@glowiever Nope

@glowiever

8 ай бұрын

@@WhoThisMonkey based

@bendover2425

8 ай бұрын

You lived a long and miserable existence. Congratulations

@user-xy6xr2hf8x

8 ай бұрын

Diogenes, is that you?

I’ve just finished my Phd, which can be considered slave work; after my phd defense I’ve emancipated into absolute freedom (nobody can control me now) but equally poor and traumatized

@superduty4556

8 ай бұрын

Could have done anything you wanted and chose to go to school forever. Congratulations.

@os2171

8 ай бұрын

@@superduty4556 thanks

@cryora

8 ай бұрын

Same here. I am finding that the job market is tough, since I don't have the industry experience companies are looking for. I may have to go back into science as a postdoc, which eventually means writing a proposal for a grant. The only project I can think of writing for would be a continuation of my PhD. Maybe the postdoc experience will open up new ideas and opportunities. I do have to say that networking with industry and startups has opened my eyes about what's out there and how the world works, even if it has not led to a paid position.

@os2171

8 ай бұрын

@@cryora I’m applying to PostDocs while studying data science online as backup

@DokesConspiracyNetwork

8 ай бұрын

​@@superduty4556he was just doing what we were all indoctrinated to do

They can take out a life insurance policy on you without your knowledge too.

@mva1985

3 жыл бұрын

who's they??

@mediolanumhibernicus3353

3 жыл бұрын

@@mva1985 You know, .... “THEY”

@HDitzzDH

3 жыл бұрын

@@mva1985 "They" don't want you to know who they are.

@bailey5924

2 жыл бұрын

@@mva1985 Capitalist business owners

@skins189lbs4

2 жыл бұрын

@Paul Ingram well you have a home but the bank still owns your home. You stop working for a few months the bank can take your home away. And your family could starve. And he isn't talking about every single american. Of course the upper class is an exception to this. But most people do live pay check to paycheck. A shelter is a basic need. Congrats on meeting that basic need

"Im just a slave to the system" ~ me who works 5 hours a week at a supermarket

@dddajjjfa

2 жыл бұрын

Your feelings of being suffocated by the tyrannical will of an employer are valid whether you work for five minutes or for 24 hours a day. It's not a competition, you have every right to your indignance even if there are people who have it worse.

@krunkle5136

2 жыл бұрын

@@dddajjjfa you have the right to be indignant if there's no safety net like unemployment insurance which you can get even in libertarian America.

@HaloDude557

2 жыл бұрын

@@krunkle5136 America is not libertarian lmao

@HaloDude557

2 жыл бұрын

You've got a lot of gaming videos for someone supposedly stuck in minimum wage job slavery

@krunkle5136

2 жыл бұрын

@@HaloDude557 it veers well towards libertarian when compared to Europe.

Thank you Chomsky for putting into words my resentment of horrible work places and the people who run them. I’m always accused of having a “bad attitude” because I’m not a happy worker bee.

@user-bg2oi4bz3p

8 ай бұрын

Start your own business. It's easy.

@poptraxx418

8 ай бұрын

Start your own business

@cli260

8 ай бұрын

Fellow "bad attitude" person here. Let's make our attitude the only possible in trash work places 😅

@bornkinggamer3347

7 ай бұрын

@@user-bg2oi4bz3p Oh you're a slave? Have you considered becoming free and buying your own slaves?

@CastleHassall

7 ай бұрын

if you don't like the boss get a different way to buy your food..i bet they don't like you either

I used to work in a public science laboratory in the particle physics area. I loved it because I was contributing to science and not a corporate machine. My salary was lower than what I could get in industry though, and I was always belittled by my family for working a “low paid job”. Eventually I got so sick of having to defend myself that I left and I now work for a corporation, earning 50% more. I miss my previous job though.

@ErdemYayn

8 ай бұрын

I think if you have enough money to make a living, it is the best to do the job that you love and that is meaningful. And this is more luxurious than anything that you can buy with money.

@DokesConspiracyNetwork

8 ай бұрын

What's your thoughts on CERN?

@Indylimburg

8 ай бұрын

Quit school and go to work. You'll be ahead of your peers who stayed in school, you'll learn the skills you need for the job, and you'll save yourself heaps of debt.

@RARochester

8 ай бұрын

Always listen to yourself and you’ll be happier and have no one to blame; I left corporate America and became a waiter and couldn’t be happier; I have an MBA by the way….

@katharinabecker752

8 ай бұрын

​@DokesConspiracyNetwork CERN these days operates like an aging company. Sometimes, some real science still gets done but mostly it's alot of comfortable folks who like the glory. It has also turned into a mass tourist destination.

This makes the homeless dude down the street feel vindicated finally.

@boss2341

9 ай бұрын

Neofeudalismus zum dank.

That's why I love that song, "Everybody's working for the weekend!"

@alonespirit_1Q84

2 жыл бұрын

Bittersweet Symphony by Verve would be more appropriate, i'm kinda liking it even more now.

@alejandroruiz2439

2 жыл бұрын

That's so accurate¡ even big corporate workers live that way.

'They can't legally murder you.' Looks at Construction's "benign neglect"

@JackieChandler69

7 ай бұрын

What the fuck is "benign neglect"?

@RobSmith-rn3ie

7 ай бұрын

Before the first progressive movements, in The Gilded Age, they often did. Strikers got shot. You either worked 12 hours a day for a starvation wage from a very early age until death or else they hastened that death. This is what right-"libertarians" would like us to return to. What the classical liberal age was in practice.

@danielmiller3596

7 ай бұрын

@@JackieChandler69 it's a premise where you just let someone live autonomously with little to no oversight. politically it's a different definition (also philosophically, sort of). Basically... they give you the rules, tell you they're watching... but no one is watching unless they want to make points.

The biggest danger is not about having dress codes or by having a boss, that is acceptable. The greatest danger is that by having a job and mingling with coworkers, you start to adapt a certain lifestyle and thinking pattern and this will define your future and your values. So best thing is to know how to consciously separate your environment/job/situation from yourself, see it as a chapter of your life and always try to find a way to either be self-employed or find a job that makes you happier.

@cristianobrogna1225

8 ай бұрын

No man, dressing like a moron because some dude ordered me to is far from acceptable. Necessary maybe, but not acceptable. Thankfully I’ve never head this experience, at the moment

@akosuakoranteng3327

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! Thats a good insight

@michaelk.jensen1611

8 ай бұрын

He is talking about how they can define anything and control you. This is just the surface level. Anything the company can think of, dependent on the mood the reason ability of the employer can be implemented when there no restrictions and an extreme power balance and employees are not considered part of the company that invest time in it but just a loose appendix.

@cryora

8 ай бұрын

That's what I want to do. Gain enough experience to start my own company that can survive and profit, so I can work on what I want.

@Green0lives

7 ай бұрын

Word

I so despise Corporate America, I worked in a hospital for 28 years. My hours were cut drastically and many staff were laid off and fired. No concern for my stress, time or financial situation . The worst part was I didn’t have any say as to what happened to me. Retired early and moved overseas. Aloha and good riddance

@krunkle5136

2 жыл бұрын

There are some countries where it's very hard to fire or let go employees, unless they commit crime. Companies acting like welfare states.

@FardtilUshid

2 жыл бұрын

Where are you now?

@lesliestenta3084

2 жыл бұрын

@@FardtilUshid Krabi, Ao Nang beach, Thailand

@filipgrasberg9333

2 жыл бұрын

@@lesliestenta3084 Sweet.

@Dzanarika1

Жыл бұрын

Yet they want employees to give them 2-week notice.

I'll never spend my life doing something I hate doing just to survive.

@mysterioanonymous3206

9 ай бұрын

😂 Bless your heart

@fitnesspoint2006

8 ай бұрын

You are true American, as well as a gentleman and a scholar.

@ssss-kg7wz

8 ай бұрын

Then... how will you survive?

@joshpickles9022

8 ай бұрын

Good for you. It won't matter to or impact anyone except you.

@constantinedeboudox

8 ай бұрын

@@ssss-kg7wz Humans are hunter-gatherers by nature we tamed ourselves along with other domestic animals, but if you release pig into the wild it would soon grow hair and tusks.

To me, the issue is that it's supposed to be a fair exchange of money for work.. but it has become slavery in many cases / places

Thank you Noam for opening my eyes. Im quiting my job tomorrow!

@user-vd9pf6pu3o

7 ай бұрын

That's great news! Leave the wage cage

Never felt so good about being unemployed.

@Abjecthda

2 жыл бұрын

Same I used to work at a school it felt like prison.

@alem123

2 жыл бұрын

What are you guys gonna do now not to starve?

@TheSonicSpud

2 жыл бұрын

Based on what Chomsky said, that's the absolute worse place to be. We are in the authoritarian system, getting punished by that system does not mean you are excluded from it.

@McHoneyBunnyLPs

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSonicSpud as long as you not starve. You are good.

@notloki3377

2 жыл бұрын

you should try to get skilled so you can do something you actually appreciate

Noam’s ‘burns’ are very entertaining; I keep hearing “Disco Inferno” in my head...

Chomsky net worth: 5 million US dollars. Publishing contracts make up a decent portion of that.

@Craxxet

2 жыл бұрын

Which makes his critique of a totalitarian workplace invalid in what way?

@Emperorcalebtine

2 жыл бұрын

@@Craxxet He’s making a literal fortune from publishing houses using print shops and distribution centers that pay their people just below a living wage.Not to mention speaking fees.

@imactuallyHimtho

2 жыл бұрын

@@Emperorcalebtine the dude is old asf and he's worth $5 million dollars. Jesus christ man he's done amazing things and $5m is a good living. Instead of being mad at him, maybe let's help others achieve a similar success. We do what we can. Just because he's not perfect doesn't mean he doesn't deserve what he's earned.

@Huang_Teh.

7 ай бұрын

​@@imactuallyHimthohe is lunatic.

@galek75

3 ай бұрын

​@@EmperorcalebtineYou are equally complicit in the system as he is. Just like anyone else.

And never mind that other video where the guy breaks down how many hours you work in a week just to survive. Something like the money you make just on Friday is yours to keep. The rich rely on tax evasion and investments. No one gets rich by “working hard”..

He is right, you know. We cannot compare the circumstances of wage slavery to that of hunting, gathering, fishing, trapping, or farming as a community for survival because nature is not an individual, company, or corporation that you must subordinate yourself to.

@tedmccarron

8 ай бұрын

But in a free market you can still be a hunter and gatherer if you don't mind living like a caveman. Virtually nobody chooses that lifestyle and for good reason.

@Killicon93

8 ай бұрын

@@tedmccarron You can't live like a caveman. Our "caveman" ancestors live in communities and good luck finding a community to live with like that. But what completely destroys this argument of a "free market" being free is that there are no common lands anymore. If you want to hunt and gather you're gonna have to buy yourself some land first and that requires submitting yourself to the tyranny of the workplace.

@tedmccarron

8 ай бұрын

@Killicon93 oh hell I'm sure you could find enough like minded totalitarian leftists to pool their money to buy several million acres to create their own little hunter/gatherer Utopia. But it won't happen because people like Chomsky and his fans don't believe their own bullshit. His contention that consenting adults buying and selling from each other is tyranny and politicians controlling everything is freedom is leftist lunacy.

@jamessmith4172

7 ай бұрын

Like Ted said, in a free market you can still be a hunter gatherer. There are quite a few people who do that actually, and actually there are indeed large swaths of federally owned lands where it is legal to camp indefinitely, but you might need a hunting or fishing license at the very least. Also depending on the are you might have to move campsites every few weeks. And you can see if there are communities of others doing the same, or you can try to create such a community. But most people prefer having a job. The other thing is that most jobs basically exist to do what your saying, survive amidst nature. Unless your producing entertainment or luxury goods, your probably serving people food, or building houses, or any number of things that ultimately help people survive in nature. We’re just so far removed from nature via layers of industrialisation that it’s not obvious. We’re still doing the same things cavemen did just with better technologies. My point being, the tyranny of the workplace is actually still just the tyranny of nature, just layers removed. So in the same way no one is to blame for the imposition of nature, no one is really responsible for the tyranny of the workplace.

@tedmccarron

7 ай бұрын

@@jamessmith4172 exactly! Well put! So many left-wing morons out there think that the answer to "workplace tyranny" is to have politicians totally control the economy. It's obnoxious and outrageously stupid.

You can work where you want. You CAN leave when you want and not starve, you can get a job somewhere else How else do you expect reality to be? It’s easy to think of work the way Chomsky does however if we want to progress as a society there is no better catalyst than the adopted ideation of putting in effort to ensure the continued functionality of physical, metaphysical and spiritual innovation. We are not monkeys anymore, monkeys lay around eating fruit throwing shit at each other - something about our evolution gave us the urge to not do that anymore and now we have amazing things beyond comprehension for any another animal that has ever existed on this planet (and very well likely the universe and therefore (possibly) all of existence itself) . That doesn’t happen without some form of spiritual dictatorship . If you don’t want to work, then go move off the grid and live on a piece of land and make it self sustaining. I on the other hand, will continue to work so I have the pleasure of having the opportunity to write this comment to you that you have just read on your smartphone whilst using an unbelievable app such as KZread. I am 25, I worked my ass off as a teenager, from the age of 22-24.5 I barely worked, just lived on government benefits - I eventually came to a profound realisation … “I would rather work at a job that I dislike, than to not work at all” When you work, you are signalling to yourself as a being that you are involved in the forward momentum of the ever expanding universe, atheist or believer this statement is true. You have nothing to gain by doing nothing.

@bronzejourney5784

8 ай бұрын

“I would rather work at a job that I dislike, than to not work at all” Ehh, it depends on what you can do or your options when you are not working. I spent my last 5 years in a sort of "bender" where i played video games mostly and very sparsely worked on making a video game myself. Just 2 weeks ago i released it(not gonna advertise anything dont worry), i made about 100k so far. That 5 years was like the best portion of my life so far. And whats even better is that, if the increase in profits from my game continues, i can keep doing this for another 4 more years, or i can take a little risk by taking a loan and starting a small video game company. If you have any sort of creative capacity(especially the money earning kind), working in a job you dislike/hate would be such a drain on your spirits/life-force. I might look like a neet to you, but i have zero worries of any kind in my life right now(not even a burden on anyone), literal heaven in earth.

@christophdenner8878

6 ай бұрын

You're 25 and lack experience. Let's talk again when you're 45 and totally burnt out from more than 20 years in the rat race.

@marcusjackman1487

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm not a monkey. I'm a human. I want to build my own house out in the woods and grow my own crops and feed myself. But I can't under the current system. You're a child still, as the other guy said, come back in 20 years once you've experienced being a cog for that long.

@bronzejourney5784

5 ай бұрын

@@marcusjackman1487 Except that you can, but you wont because the purpose of those "cogs" are to provide YOU with the all modern comforts that you simply cant live without anymore. Try having integrity, i find it helps.

@AndysLifeandMusic

5 ай бұрын

people tend to understand and appreciate capitalism much more as they get older, studies do not indicate otherwise. It's the 'I want government to give me more and more AND more free money' that are the childish ones.@@marcusjackman1487

Ironic. Workplaces have more freedom of speech than universities xd

0:03 "almost everybody spends most of their life living in a GANGSTA'S PARADISE"

For those who think Chomsky is being childish or lazy, his solution to this problem isn't "everyone stop working." His solution is having democratic decision-making in the workplace. The owner doesn't get to stipulate all the rules. The workers collectively decide.

@filmgeekstudios4393

10 ай бұрын

As they say, "the more cooks in the kitchen, the quicker everything gets done" Oh, wait

@ShinMadero

10 ай бұрын

@@filmgeekstudios4393 I also base my political ideology on tired aphorisms.

@filmgeekstudios4393

10 ай бұрын

@@ShinMadero Discarding the wisdom behind an old cliche that clearly points towards the value of hierarchy is peak progressivism. Either type a long-winded rant or get your opinion discarded. Y'all inhale your own farts.

@neemnoa303

10 ай бұрын

Sounds like a good idea. Unless you spend 15 minutes actually thinking about it. Some people will always be clearly more competent, more experienced, more talented...etc. Who do you want to make the decisions? The guy who actually knows his stuff and has experience or some random 18 year old who started 2 months ago? So clearly a hierarchy is needed for efficiency. What I think is the real trick the corporate overlords pull is lack of transparency. I'm okay with my boss getting paid more as long as I can see what he actually does and how much he actually earns. But is that ever the case? You never know what exactly your boss does day after day (but he sure as hell keeps an eye on you at all times). And you never know how much he actually earns. And one more thing: your boss can always hold you accountable for something you fu** up. But can you hold your boss accountable when he does? Hierarchy is good but accountability and transparency are also good. Or dare I say they are just as essential.

@user-cd1di5mo4c

10 ай бұрын

And then you need to do what the collective decides or if you don't like it quit the job and starve :). That is so much different from following command of a boss. Besides, most employers are also slaves. Their masters are their customers. I'm shocked how a guy who is supposedly *so much* intelligent could talk such nonsense.

And everybody says I’m weird when i call jobs modern slavery

The solution is not to avoid work, but to cooperate together. A coop, or failing that, a workplace with a healthy union.

Are private tyrannies really the worst kind of tyranny?

@logandunlap9156

7 ай бұрын

let’s not make it a competition

There are always modes of control. Everyone is just advocating our preferred method. Chomsky seems to halfway see that and halfway intentionally ignore it.

@beamboy14526

8 ай бұрын

You could always hunt for your own food, make your own clothes, build your own shelter, etc. To think you are entitled to food, shelter, clothing, transportation, etc. without providing something valuable back in return is crazy.

@boremir3956

8 ай бұрын

@@beamboy14526 Tell that to the leeches at the very top.

I don’t know. Without employers the choice is still work or starve. Ask any animal, it’s hunt or starve.

@prabhakaranjeyamohan4579

2 жыл бұрын

He is not telling to stop working rather pointing out that a job is a system where you sell yourself or your time rather than the product you created.

@notloki3377

2 жыл бұрын

@@prabhakaranjeyamohan4579 this dude is a marxist, he's not pushing people to be entrepreneurs.

@oscarwestman3994

2 жыл бұрын

​@@prabhakaranjeyamohan4579 Well I guess that´s a perspective. We do sell our time and our labor but I for one believe that I am better off than a slave. I own my own property, am educated and have the right to vote and even become a politician should I wish to. I feel a lot more empowered than a slave but you can try to convince me otherwise,

@Hungabrigoo

2 жыл бұрын

@@prabhakaranjeyamohan4579 You are perfectly free to sell the product you have created, except that is 100 times more difficult than just working for somebody else, which is why very few people do it. His entire argument is a strawman.

@someonenotnoone

5 ай бұрын

@@Hungabrigoo The difficulty is not having access to resources because capitalists have claimed it as their private property already. His entire argument is anti-slavery. But you have to imagine people as equals who have equal rights to live and equal rights to natural resources, not as being measured by the amount of money they have or whether or not someone with money wants them to do something.

In honor of this vid I now hereby bequeath this new acronym for J.O.B.: Just Over Bend😂

“you’re free to starve” that’s the most important statement here. right wing libertarians love to make the false argument that there is no coercion because working is a “choice” which is simply disingenuous considering not working will eventually lead to one’s death. if a choice is between one thing or death, that is not a choice.

@AK-47ISTHEWAY

Ай бұрын

You don't have to pay for food. Plenty of homeless shelters give away meals for free 😋 or you could steal, get arrested, and throw in jail, and the corrections facility will feed you for free 🍝

Brilliant as always!

The whole problem with our species in less than 2 minutes.

@saladedefruit2529

2 жыл бұрын

It is perfect for the few.

@BLINK4444

2 жыл бұрын

There's no situation where people are completely free of work outside of a fantasy world. Also my last 2 jobs are nothing like he said.

@muaddib667

2 жыл бұрын

@@BLINK4444 come back when you understand the issue and have gotten over your reactionary streak.

@adriannasmiths8262

2 жыл бұрын

I show my parents this video when they tell me to get a job.

@johnsun3854

2 жыл бұрын

the whole problem is that people take evil commie liars seriously

This year I had a Social Psicology professor in Uni who used to say: "I will finally be free only when I'm dead" Now I understand what he means by that, he's a war veteran by the way.

@trollol_

5 ай бұрын

what he means is life itself is a tyranny.

Worker rights are there for a reason, must learn them and protect them

I came to the same conclusion when I moved to Germany. In Italy, people supported the public health system through taxes that were automatically deducted from the payslip. In the event that somebody was unemployed and without income, he paid no taxes, but was still entitled to the free health care, simply because he was a HUMAN BEING in a time of disgrace - unemployed & sick. In Germany the system works almost the same, with the HUGE difference that if you are unemployed and without income you still have to contribute to the payment of the health system. For me it was a shock... it was the moment I realized what we really are for the government: machines that have to produce or otherweise have to be scrapped😔

@Dan.50

2 жыл бұрын

The USA has perfected this. Produce or DIE!

@krunkle5136

2 жыл бұрын

Germany sounds like a mini America in Europe.

@Hungabrigoo

2 жыл бұрын

You should have drawn the conclusion that you are not special or valueable, and it is no one else's job to provide for your useless ass, because you are not, as you might have thought, a princess.

@Mrwallyish

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hungabrigoo wow you just prove his point

@Dzanarika1

Жыл бұрын

@@ClaudioBenassi you are called a dumb arse

He’s completely right and I’m tired of pretending that jobs aren’t slavery.

@harisadu8998

10 ай бұрын

What other option do you have?

@colts8146

10 ай бұрын

Ah yes slavery. Getting paid to do a job in an amazing society that is the most advanced, technical, and wealthy society I'm history by a gargantuan margin of which you benefit entirely is literally just like slavery. You say while typing that from your $1000 phone on the Internet in your air conditioned house while probably eating a hearty meal

@missc2742

10 ай бұрын

​@@harisadu8998doing something else. It requires people getting up and getting mobilized, though.

@Trigger_Nash

10 ай бұрын

​@@missc2742 In other words, there is no other option.

@TheKingWhoWins

10 ай бұрын

​@@Trigger_Nashexpand your mind

I am a wage slave and have been for 40 years. BUT I secretly save a large amount of what I take home. No spending on stuff I absolutely don't need. No debt to credit cards, cars paid off. The invested monies have grown. From March 2023 to March 2024 I have saved / grown the amount of my gross salary. I am a wage slave that is digging a tunnel to escape the USA for South America and it is working. I tell people at work that times are tough and I'll likely retire at age 75. Meanwhile, 62 is very achievable now. FTHEUSA!

Fun fact: in hunter-gatherer societies people would only work 3hours/day on average. With agriculture it became 10+.

@anthonymorris5084

5 ай бұрын

So what's stopping you? Go hunt and gather if it's so great. The doctor you need can go hunt and gather with you. Good luck with that.

Yet zero options exist outside of becoming the next tyrannt.

You can't kill a slave either. There were rules even back thousands of years for slavery.

@smug3636

8 ай бұрын

If slavery is just as bad as a job, then there is no compensation to be made to ther former slaves. Make up your mind.

@ubuntuposix

8 ай бұрын

@@smug3636 Bernie Sanders was asked about reparations, and he clearly said his policies benefit those in need of help, which is proportionally black people, thus there's no need for reparations. Of course the Democratic Party (which are Liberal Capitalists who invented this identity politics non-sense) attacked him, saying he' not woke enough, and that he's a Socialist. They managed to redefine the left from its intendent meaning of economic issues, to a non-sense trangender non-binary etc. Basically like if I'd say to you "Oh your'e a capitalist? That means you believe the Earth is flat. Get outta here. I'll never vote for Capitalism because the Earth is not flat!"

Starting work again in hospitality and this is exactly what was on my mind. Plainly selling ourselves into servitude to not starve

homie said this at 90

Starving isn't the only alternative to being an employee of an organization. You can be self-employed.

@BuGGyBoBerl

8 ай бұрын

okay, thats for a very tiny amount of people. it wont work in the current system for the majority. so its not really an alternative

@OnochieAfigbo

8 ай бұрын

@@BuGGyBoBerl It is an alternative. You have to sustain yourself somehow. If you don't want to work for someone, you have to work for yourself.

@tw3f4tes52

8 ай бұрын

@@OnochieAfigboThis is merely a description of the current order, same as Chomsky’s, it doesn’t negate his point

@OnochieAfigbo

8 ай бұрын

@@tw3f4tes52 I understand his point that the workplace is authoritarian. I agree with him on that. I don't agree with him when he says that starvation is the alternative to paid employment.

@BuGGyBoBerl

8 ай бұрын

@@OnochieAfigbo first of all, the current system where you either have to be "self employed" or working for a company etc. isnt the only possible system. in principal and historical. second, its not an alternative for most people. its like saying if you dont like your place in your company simply become the boss. sure for a few individuals thats possible but its not possible for most people. simply because of the fact that a company dont work if everyone is the boss. so if you accept the presumption that its a totalitarian system and its problematic, you cant say its a proper alternative to simply become self employed as most people cant in that system. the fact a few people can doesnt mean its a valid alternative. similar arguments are made about the american dream. sure, everyone can become rich in theory, in reality most cant.

Free to starve? Are we seriously pretending that people can't farm and hunt to survive?

@PySnek

8 ай бұрын

No, not if most would start doing it. There's not enough wild animals.

Tomorrow i will quit my job and say chomsky made me do it☺️

Point is: easy is to diminish the common folk as wage slaves when one lives comfortable from academia. Wage slavery supports the academia also.

Noam seems to be missing the fact that life itself comes with a contract of obligations that we must fulfil. We are a slave to our physiological needs. You could go find a piece land in the middle of nowhere and farm your own crops all day instead. You'll still need to fulfil all your obligations to avoid starvation and pain.

@HaloDude557

2 жыл бұрын

@@fakejameh someone had to produce that bag of oats, and you had to produce something that can be exchanged for said bag of oats. Is that then tyranny where you must produce something to survive? Sounds a lot like work. Perhaps you should just kill the other guy and take his oats, oh wait, that would be tyranny.

@paxnorth7304

2 жыл бұрын

When he goes to eat out at a restaurant, is he like "I'd prefer the poached salmon, but I don't want to contribute to tyranny, so tell the chef to make whatever he wants".

@mirrortrix

2 жыл бұрын

@@paxnorth7304 lmaoooo genius take in this terrible thread

@fakejameh

2 жыл бұрын

@@paxnorth7304 Like Chomskys Ideas? Can I Ask which of Chomskys books you have read? Id say you havent read any. DAmn wouldnt that be a smash in the face. We could also examine some other Big Topics and see What you can make? child. btw the initial comment is philosophy, and not a statement of actual facts. So i think that also refutes you, so why dont you stick to the facts instead of trying to make yourself Look good online. HERE, noone gaf who you are my friend :). "WOW HE WANTS TO OBTAIN SOMETHING AT A FACE VALUE; LETS HIT HIM WITH THE BASIC COMMIE CHECK- "FASCIST, COMMUNIST, TOTALITARIAN, THIEF", fact is lots of govts and others who think they run the country end up squandering resources, so i wouldnt say we owe present good fortune to "Pax North" an unemployed Artist who sells to his mum and believes in Jesus. YOUR BEING PERSECUTED, BUT THE LORD JESUS ONLY LOVES YOU, BELIEVE IN HIM. WEAK AF TO0L

@fakejameh

2 жыл бұрын

@@paxnorth7304 Your weak as hell, no moral fibre whatever, and no intellectual ability. Otherwise youd be actually arguing your point, rather than cheap point scoring. Just like peasants. "Smoke a valium bro" im not your bro if you want to make humour about me. Just some E-THug you back away when Reality hits you. YOu still havent said anything related to the actual video, so im not sure why your still commenting here? run awayy, smoke that valium JUNKIE. ohh but it makes sense now, In America you have a raciust society with no minimum wage, is that why u look down on people who are poor?

It is okey to sell your services in exchange of someone elses goods. But its never okey to sell yourself to servitude.

@k.butler8740

3 жыл бұрын

If Liberty is the ability to conduct obligatory actions, I'll grant it's never ok to obligate anyone to relieve themselves of their ability to conduct that which they know to be obligatory.

@AymanB

3 жыл бұрын

ONLY IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE. The majority don't, as Noam pointed out.

@Ozrictentacles87

3 жыл бұрын

Who says a job is obligatory

@paxnorth7304

2 жыл бұрын

@@AymanB Ain't it the truth. Think about all the millions that starved in America last year alone.

@Hungabrigoo

2 жыл бұрын

@@AymanB Who, in the western world doesn't have the freedom to choose their job? The entire argument is a strawman.

100% correct and it begins with sending your children to be 'schooled' by strangers. Homeschool the children, and let the households go back to living on one wage and force the cost of living to drop.

Thats why the only thing Chomsky build, is his own brand. Never had a company of employees. Companies can be totalitarian, and yet they can also be exact opposite. And some hierarchy and responsibility doesnt mean totalitarian, dummey.

Tal como lo dijo aquel filósofo y sabio popular conocido como Don Ramón: “Ningún trabajo es malo. Lo malo es tener que trabajar”

The only freedom we really have and need is the freedom to think our own thoughts, experience our own emotions and express them fully. Every other freedom is superflous to that. An artist cannot be subjugated.

Well that settles it. Chomsky convinced me against a job…

Thats why working for yourself kicks ass!

I wonder if someone could create a model of an economy where everyone is a freelancer/entrepreneur. No employees, just freelancers doing jobs for other freelancers. Cause a common theme I hear these days when people complain about their job is “quit your job! be an entrepreneur! start a business!” But I’d actually like to see that displayed to the most extreme level of what would happen if a whole society took that advice and chose to be freelancers

@TV-hx6hz

2 жыл бұрын

You still need to suck up to your clients/customers in order to make that money so you don’t starve.

@khairulimran1269

2 жыл бұрын

An economic model where everyone is a freelancer is a highly inefficient society. You do not gain speed from job specialization, hard to focus your time on 20% works that gives 80% of output, no cost reduction thru economies of scale. High coordinating cost since you need to spend months (bfore a project even start) by posting job ad, interviews, filtering to hire 5 people with diff skillsets for *every* project.

@mdashfaqulislam6998

Жыл бұрын

A better model is worker cooperative s + freelance . Look for Mondragon co-op

@doublesushi5990

Жыл бұрын

too much competition, and too powerful of competition... try to "freelance" in year 2205 but you have to compete against 4,000+ trillionaires lol.

@true5911

11 ай бұрын

Douglas Social Credit

He’s essentially talking about……Amazon

You have a choice to make the money however you want. Doesnt mean starvation if you leave the job! Means you're not making money!!!

Some things are best said outside the way of masses hearing it, especially when it's easy to misinterpret the point when the point is edited out.

A third option has become possible more so than ever, in the form of personal artistry and content or product creation

@user-gk9pl6vl5v

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't call something with probability of way less than 1% an "option"

@MillerTheOfficialLoFi

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-gk9pl6vl5v I'd consider it a personal, subjective percentage, and would have to agree with your opinion with that attitude

This man is a legend. 95 years old man. He is 100% right.

"Yeah You Have The Right To Starve" Fuck!.....I'll never forget that line. lol :)

Watching this as i am unemployed and running out of food and thinking i will have to get a job or else i will starve to death With my dog here in México

@MadRad1000

8 ай бұрын

How did things turn out for you man?

"U r free to starve " 😂😂😂😂

most important video on youtube, bluntly the truth of truths, its not necessary to use a lot of words to understand it, its not a narrative to confuse people with language aka fantasy

It’s like those old detective shows where You know the bad guys, you know the crime, but it takes longer than 50 minutes of TV prime time to figure it out.

Favorite Chomsky bit I've heard in years

@notloki3377

2 жыл бұрын

that's pretty fucking sad bro

@hyzercreek

Жыл бұрын

My favorite Chumpsky bit is where he says the bathtub is a fascist for making him stink when he doesn't bathe.

@jogendron6320

10 ай бұрын

Mine is when he completely changed modern linguistics. What a Chump!!!!!

The “genius“ Chomsky: The person I was dating told me that I either had to change for them or we break up. They were giving me the choice of either being controlled by someone or being single and lonely and miserable for the rest of my life. Such a romantic tyranny 😂

Thanks for telling me I'm useless again YT

your unemployed friend 3pm on a Thursday afternoon (he just got up):

what’s Chomsky’s ideal society? I get that having a job is bad inherently but what else is there to do with life? Everything takes hard work.

@DKZK21

2 жыл бұрын

Well, this clip is completely removed from any sort context as to what might have prompted this assertion, so it is not clear at all what point he is trying to make with this observation. If I were to take a complete guess at what is going on here, however, I'd guess the interviewer may have made some sort of comment on the potential for tyranny and authoritarianism that comes with granting a central authority, like the federal government, greater and greater power and control over private institutions such as banks or the press, which Chomsky is well known for criticizing as controlling the public through deceptive narratives. Hence Chomsky making an assertion here that we already live our everyday lives under a wholly private type of authoritarianism is probably NOT trying to make the point that private jobs are bad, but that authoritarianism can manifest in any system that successfully shields itself from accountability.

@p.p.8624

2 жыл бұрын

This is not the place to inject reasonable thoughts, Connor.

@johnsun3854

2 жыл бұрын

hes a subversive commie. he wants to destroy western world. there is no bright future in his mind.

@paxnorth7304

2 жыл бұрын

Uh, how is having a job inherently bad ? The jobs I've enjoyed (and there have been many) let me serve my fellow humans and produce goods and services that helped make their lives better.

@EnigmaShadow03

2 жыл бұрын

This. People talk about wage slaves, all while having houses built by the hands of someone who had to work, using technology that was created by someone who had to work etc. Society as a whole only functions because people work. So what’s the alternative? I can understand criticizing Capitalism itself, but I can’t agree with a society without any structure whatsoever.

If nobody had a job, Noam would be sitting naked in a cave speaking into a dirty rock.

@globalmyths6580

2 жыл бұрын

@Michael Johnson cavemen just ate and had sex all day ? No cavemen Spent the whole day hunting and looking for food and going out in the nature and surviving not just having sex all day. But At least they were living Life because when you Go hunt everyday and try to survive, every single day is a new adventure, today you’ll Hunt a deer and you’ll get chased by a couple of Predators, tomorrow you’ll go fishing and You probably will be lucky enough to Spectate a beautiful sunset and come back home then you can have sex lol. That’s my perspective

@elfglow4557

2 жыл бұрын

We don’t have to go back to caves. We already invented tools and gained knowledge to not go back to extreme basics. But being slave to what we created is not a way to live. Humans are born to be free

@christopherhelms7290

2 жыл бұрын

Noam has lots of high sounding ideas and humanitarian solutions that look great on paper, and which always seem to default to a party functionary with a rifle ordering your work crew to dig a sewage ditch.

@michaelwright8896

2 жыл бұрын

Hunter gatherers were rich not because they had stuff but because they were free and could easily meet their basic needs. Modern technology is also harming the planet. Perhaps we'd be better off without it.

Says the tenured professor.

0:22 Ain't nobody telling me when i can go to the bathroom. When the nature calls i go. Employers have to understand that.

"They can control when you go to the bathroom" W-what? They can make me shit myself??

@HaloDude557

2 жыл бұрын

He's never had a job so he thinks it's like Preschool where you have to raise your hand and ask to be dismissed for 10 minutes

@paxnorth7304

2 жыл бұрын

@@HaloDude557 Or like it's the 1820s and we've all been driven off the land and are working at Lord Fuggly Wuggs top hat factory.

@magnushmann

2 жыл бұрын

Many, many workplaces in the US have very strict rules when it comes to breaks, including toilet breaks, so yes.

@whong09

2 жыл бұрын

Oh.. I don't know about that. I work from home.

@magnushmann

2 жыл бұрын

@@whong09 That sounds nice, but keep in mind that someone working at a factory can't take the factory home with them.

Whenever I suffer from insomnia I listen to Chomsky. It works every time.

@laylarahman11

8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

"Some people are so enslaved by the system, and dependent on the system, they will do anything to defend it." - Morpheus about this comment section.

Sounds like an Amazon warehouse job.

Wage slavery, enough said.