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@MikeyfromBOS

Ай бұрын

I found that I could not do many of the jobs you talked about... but I began taking research surveys and am really glad I did. This was perfect for me... I wanted to be heard, I am frustrated with and fascinated by current societal events, and wound up learning a lot of stuff, especially about myself, because honesty is valued in this work. Does not feel like work most of the time to be honest, I hear studies referenced on political shows and recall taking them, but most valuable currently is training AI models. Plus make a decent amount if I want, if I don't feel up to it or want to go out for the day I do.

@AnvilPictures

Ай бұрын

My film will release at 1:30pm, you asked to link it to you

@asuka_the_void_witch

Ай бұрын

the way to speak danish properly is: be german, be drunk, speak norwegian. source: im swedish

@BrandyCrane82782

Ай бұрын

Would love to use babel, but they do not offer Greek... as soon as that is a thing, then I will look into it...

@paulborst4724

Ай бұрын

*Your Marxist message never disappoints.* 🤣🤣🤣

"Gig work" used to solely apply to ephemeral jobs like musicians and caterers. Now it's incorrectly applied to people who do the same work all day, every day, for the same employers. That's a JOB. If you go down to the Home Depot parking lot every day and hire the same dudes as day laborers, it's not a gig, it's a job that's being done illegally without any of the protections of regulated employment. All these digital platforms have done is create an electronic version of going down to the Home Depot parking lot.

@ahimel

Ай бұрын

Very well put.

@shutyomouthchild

Ай бұрын

Fax.

@LV-ii7bi

Ай бұрын

job protection is woke and communist, sorry can't have that.

@HylianFox3

Ай бұрын

The fact that so many places don't consider their employees to be... employees, is disgusting and nothing more than a loophole to not pay them decent wages or offer benefits. I'd never work for them unless, well, not even if I was desperate.

@Autonomous15

Ай бұрын

@@HylianFox3 You should start a business and hire people as full time employees, then.

I work as a barista, yesterday I had a man yell at me for a drink I didn't even make since I had just started my shift. I could've easily remade it in a fraction of the time it took for him to make a scene about how much he pays everyday for his drink... like bro it's 8:30am... you made me cry. I truly wish I didn't have to work anymore

@Calico983

Ай бұрын

People like that have so much negativity in their life, and in their head, that they use others to dump some of their stress and negativity off on… it’s awful. But try to remember that, because then next time maybe you’ll think “I wonder what’s so f*** up in this person’s personal life”, and you’ll kind of take yourself out of the moment, realize they are trying to dump their negativity on you, and hopefully realize it’s not a you problem, but a them problem…

@thebeastoffeasterpark

Ай бұрын

I hate when crap like that happens. People seem to think, you're here right now, you must have worked on this. I used to work at staples. I walked into a shift one day and this guy was SCREAMING at me about how I messed up his blueprint order and why can't I do it correctly. I told him: I have no idea who you are or what this order is about. I didn't mess anything up, I just got here and you need to relax.

@pastelpurpledeathbed

Ай бұрын

You cried over someone yelling at you? 😭

@jaimeeparcels427

Ай бұрын

@@pastelpurpledeathbed yes

@yesteryearr

Ай бұрын

​@@thebeastoffeasterparkGood that you stood up for yourself. Sometimes I feel I need to be more like that

Getting punched as a fight attendant: national news. Getting punched as a teacher: Tuesday

@dontmisunderstand6041

Ай бұрын

When I was in 5th grade I got 3 days out-of-school suspension for sticking my tongue out behind a teacher's back one time. You will never get me to be sympathetic about how teachers are treated while at work. I might be sympathetic to their interactions with parents, administrators, or the law, but never with students. The people with all the power and no accountability don't deserve sympathy for how that power dynamic breaks down.

@davidhoward4715

Ай бұрын

@@dontmisunderstand6041 I bet you were an absolute horror for the children around you who just wanted to get an education.

@dontmisunderstand6041

Ай бұрын

@@davidhoward4715 I was quiet, kept to myself, was constantly bullied by teachers, administrators, and other students, and was the top scoring student in the district every single year without trying. Yes, it was upsetting to the children around me that the kid not bothering anybody or participating was doing better than them. And they took it out on me with violence both physical and emotional, with help from the people who worked at the school. And then I'd go home to continue getting the shit beaten out of me by my parents and siblings, because it's easier to just have a punching bag than work through your own emotional issues. Yeah, I was a horror to those around me. What a selfish asshole I was, trying to constantly avoid attention because being noticed meant being harassed.

@scarlettdamante4945

Ай бұрын

@@davidhoward4715 What a horrible thing to say that proves his point. Children need time, & guidance to grow. Their behaviour is only ever reflective of their environment or unmet needs. Shame on you! As someone who has worked with early years and primary schools, all children deserve compassion, and patience. I had a kid who was constantly disrupting class & ignoring the other staff members. I spent ONE DAY just one day actively giving him more attention, more help, checking in during play time when he was playing alone for almost the entire break. You know what he did the next day? He listened & engaged with class. He tried to do his work. Was everything fixed? No. But did it get better because I as a teacher saw behavioural issues not as a moral failing but as a symptom of inadequate support, YES! Teachers choose to make a living by interacting with some of the most vulnerable members of society with some of the least autonomy or accountability for their actions. We choose to work with ppl who don't know their own physical capabilities yet let alone the psychological impact they can have on others. I don't remember a single time I was hit by students, not because it hasn't happened but because it's just a something that happens like when a kid gets snot on your clothes. It can be a learning moment and might need reporting based on severity, but it's not moment where i think oh poor me I'm so abused. I'm there for the kids, not to have a spa day.

@xXluluchanelXx

Ай бұрын

@@dontmisunderstand6041 as an ADHDer who was singled out by tons of teachers, I do feel this. but I was lucky enough to have one or two who advocated for me. I just feel like you weren't so lucky, and that makes sense, because the whole system is screwed from top to bottom. we have to have sympathy for all teachers even so, given the situation they are in right now with being paid so little they have to keep a second job, expected to possibly arm themselves and take out one of their own students in a mass casualty event, deal with the most entitled parents our country has ever seen through the generations AND deal with students that are even more mentally taxed and antisocial than anyone in generations previous. TL;DR I know things sucked for you... but if it leads you to blanket statement an entire group of people then were you bullied for being smart or for being dumb?

'There is nothing more American than using a gun to threaten someone trying to give you a free handout' I cackled vigorously. What the hell have we become?

@RBzee112

Ай бұрын

A country of a-holes who lost the fear of acting out.

@xXluluchanelXx

Ай бұрын

I mean given we got here through the disgusting idea of "Manifest Destiny" it kind of makes sense we're this hateful and delusional

@Sephiroth144

Ай бұрын

The gallows- hence the humor.

Amazon factories are hell on earth! They time how long you take in the bathroom and how many times you go. I was "talked to" One day for taking four bathroom breaks in my 12-hour shift. I had spent approximately 7 minutes from my work area per bathroom break. That includes walking halfway across the factory to the nearest bathroom and back. In a matter of 4 months I developed carpal tunnel so bad I had to wear braces on my wrists 24 hours a day. They refused to move me to a non repetitive job. I quit at 4 months. Amazon is literally the vortex to hell

@potapotapotapotapotapota

Ай бұрын

the only way things are going to change is if we establish boundaries to being taken advantage of

@eduardohenrique8602

Ай бұрын

Do I hear the word union?

@bransonallen2925

Ай бұрын

I worked at Amazon for about a month, and on my literal second day of work they were telling me my rates were low and that I needed to pick it up.

@sfwcommenting

Ай бұрын

One job that I can't wait for AI to overtake

@LDrosophila

Ай бұрын

Thats grosd I hope you told your boss every graphic detail. Well boss my period is really heavy right now. I also had taco bell last night but I dont remember eating corn.

"kids these days are so lazy, they don't want to work" The jobs they offer at a fraction of the salary:

@pointfrogg

Ай бұрын

With NONE of the benefits.

The guy who drops off my gf's kidney treatment shipments got into a deep convo about how everything he does is monitored and timed. Then after about 5-7 minutes he goes "OH F**K WHAT AM I DOING I GOTTA GO"

@cody.vagabond

Ай бұрын

Damn!

@reallue

Ай бұрын

Idk why, I skipped over the word 'treatment'. But that recontextualized yur comment into a multiverse where, vampires or zombies or Frankenstein monsters, Idk are the norm. But even in that multiverse, delivery workers are still forced to deal with all these same problems. Rereading it again & realizing my mistake brought me back to this reality

@drew-horst

Ай бұрын

@@reallue I'm glad you had an experience 😂

@tabbykat8564

Ай бұрын

omg i also had to have kidney treatments!!

@zyposts

Ай бұрын

@@tabbykat8564 hi femcel innit

"Essential" worker = Expendable worker

@AlexanderJWF

Ай бұрын

It's not that we as hard workers were deemed essential to maintain the economy, but it was deemed essential for us to keep working to maintain the economy. The value is in the service or good & not the person, we're just the one following orders like good little flesh robots.

@nyanuwu4209

Ай бұрын

Workers are expendable because they allow themselves to be.

@nyanuwu4209

Ай бұрын

@@asdf242 Become too valuable to be tossed, or revolt against those who would dispose of you and simply refuse to be treated as garbage. Americans especially - particularly on the left, slobbering over ideals of pacifism magically solving all things - seem to adore complaining about this or that mistreatment while endlessly rolling over for it.

@nyanuwu4209

Ай бұрын

@@asdf242 Figure it out.

@Sephiroth144

Ай бұрын

I was about to post that; to elaborate: the WORKER is expendable, but their labor is "essential". We don't care about the worker, but godsdammit, we need out lattes brought to us, chop chop...

I bartend at a dive bar and I bartend weddings. The things I love about those places: 1) at a dive bar, I can tell someone to fuck off and there isn't really anyone to get mad at me about it, 2) at a wedding almost everyone is just in a good mood, plus I control the booze

@lowfro02

Ай бұрын

Same! Best part of the job honestly.

I read an interesting article about why customers are acting so terrible. Basically, they've lost all agency in their life due to capitalism, but they were promised power in the form of consumerism. So when reality doesn't meet expectations, people snap because they can't afford to live, work long hours, haven't taken a vacation in years, lost autonomy over their own bodies (women in many states), get decent healthcare, etc...and the tradeoff is their ability to buy stuff. So when you tell them it's out of stock or whatever, that ONE thing they thought they had control over in their life isn't there.

@flailingweasel8541

Ай бұрын

They need to grow up and deal with it their perceived worthlessness isn't someone else's problem

@laman012

Ай бұрын

That's actually some really good analysis.

You forgot to point out that in retaliation for the "great resignation", companies decided the answer was to lay off 1/12 of all workers - so not only did they get to complain that they can't hire people (nobody wants to work), they're also adding shedding people who were fine with working for them.

@handthefs8197

Ай бұрын

They also have continued that by refusing to staff anything adequately anymore and placing all the blame on workers, while gaslighting the public

@dontmisunderstand6041

Ай бұрын

Because they're literally lying when they say they can't find people to hire.

@timmy-wj2hc

Ай бұрын

And for Part Time jobs, they don't give you a set schedule, preventing people from getting other jobs.

@menzies09er

Ай бұрын

I mean your comment is riddled with problems. Surely companies aren’t getting rid of productive, profit generating employees? And also if they’re getting rid of people doesn’t it follow that those are the less productive parts of a business, so perhaps aren’t working hard?

@pennywaldrip3774

Ай бұрын

@@menzies09er No, actually. The idea was spelled out clearly on business news channels. Layoffs are how you take power away from workers.

Oh I have stories about working at Dollar General before and during the pandemic. One customer literally asked me if we sold disposable cameras one time and she was shocked when I said no. telling me that she heard a DG store in Ohio sold them and asked me to check the back because I might have missed them, saying that it's obviously I don't know how to do my job. There was another time someone stole couple of the candy trays from the front display of the register and a customer bad mouthed me asking me why I didnt chase the guy down. I replied "Because he had a gun" Which then the customer told me this is why the nation is in the crap because my generation lack morals and discipline to uphold the American way of life, to put down our lives to uphold the law and order. But then i asked the customer how come he didn't tackle the robber he replied "It ain't my damn job, I don't work here".

@ledwysdelgado7304

Ай бұрын

Should have told him the CEO can tackle the thieve he has more to lose.

@wen6519

Ай бұрын

............ Sometimes, sometimes, I wish there was a tip jar that a service worker could shove in the face of anyone who is being an asshole. Not for the money per se. Just as passive aggressive way of pointing out how much the customer could please SFU

@rainbowdragon1872

Ай бұрын

Fucking wow....ywah cause you're supposed to risk your life for a company that would replace you before your corpse turned cold. Mf xustomers bro i swear

@charliecleveland18

27 күн бұрын

A worker from Home Depot was literally shot and killed when he tried to stop someone from stealing. Never risk your life for something stupid like merchandise! I’m sorry that happened to you though.

"Service work" is really just a shallow euphemism for "servant work". When the imaginary "middle" class was invented in the 20th century to appease an increasingly discontent and rebellious population, it accompanied the creation of a class of "servants" who would fill the roles of performing the servitude needed to make the "middle" class play at being part of the owning class. These new servants got a slightly different name and a slightly different treatment than their predecessors, but generally just reproduce the old structures we all know and love from feudal or slave systems. As the "middle" class disintegrates, we're seeing the emergence of the "Karen", or the working class individual desperately trying to hold onto their owning class lifestyles - or at least the theme park version of it they've grown accustomed to. Their increased discomfort is passed down onto "service" workers (which is really populated by members of their own class that they believe themselves to be above) in the "service industry". It's a pattern not unlike the division between the field slave and the house slave, or between the chattel slave and the indentured servant. I don't think it's a death of empathy, but instead, a revealing of the lack of empathy we've had all along that comes from the separation of people into different castes, and the reactionary rage that comes from the destruction of the illusion of the "middle class".

@TreesPlease42

Ай бұрын

Well said! We've always been this way, and modern conditions expose the facade that was the middle class.

@dontmisunderstand6041

Ай бұрын

The middle class has always been a thing, just not in those terms. It refers to the buffer the ruling class use to prevent the lower class from rising up. By selecting a large minority of the lower class and elevating them, you ingratiate them to the system that you represent.

@scottandrews5638

Ай бұрын

Very well said Thank you

@TheZombieButler

Ай бұрын

Adding yet more appreciation for this wonderfully written essay. Thank you.

@atomicTOONS

Ай бұрын

Excellent! Thank you.

Someone on a support chat thanked me for being polite the other day. No idea if that was part of a script but it didn't sound like it. Bit of an indictment if someone felt the need to thank me for just behaving like a human being.

@ayapapaya5693

Ай бұрын

as someone who has been working customer service her entire life, a simple "thank you" goes a long way. it makes me feel appreciated and that I'm doing something right. real stupid but sometimes it causes me to tear up

@johnchedsey1306

Ай бұрын

A couple years ago one of my kitties needed emergency vet care. I took to a good local animal hospital and they did a great job with her. I acted like what I thought was normal human behavior: being polite, etc. Later, when the bill came, the vet tech told me she wasn't charging me for several things because she really appreciated that I was treating them decently. It was a little shocking to think very basic manners are in such short supply.

@xXluluchanelXx

Ай бұрын

I hope it's because I treat people with respect and try to be cheerful, but most people I have to talk to on the phone to get help for customer service leave the call seeming like I made them feel a little better that day. I worked a call center so I know that feeling. I always really hope that's what it is. I hate the idea of having to do their jobs so I do my best to make sure I don't ever make it worse. I actually have major social anxiety, but not because I'm bad with people, just bad childhood stuff lol

I worked in retail for 18 years and I can't even tell you how many times I was berated and called names, told I was stupid, etc. This was in a bookstore, so I can't even imagine what food service workers and delivery drivers have to go through. I was also pre-pandemic, so it has to be much worse now since everyone has gone feral.

@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield

Ай бұрын

A. Book. Store....😢

@timmy-wj2hc

Ай бұрын

Banks and Hospitals are a nightmare.

@jamesvanitas

Ай бұрын

I wish I could work in a bookstore

@DaughterofDiogenes

Ай бұрын

I worked at bookstores for years as well and it’s hilarious how brutal people can be in a freaking bookstore 😂😂😂 I got called an affirmative action hire by a fully grown assed man when I was 16 because I have auditory processing disorder and he kept turning away when he spoke so I kept having to ask him repeat himself. I don’t even understand the comment at the time so I was like I don’t think so sir and another coworker who had overheard him went off on him and chased him out the store. I’m glad she did but I wished she hadn’t explained to me what he meant 😢😂. Dude I’m like 44, I can’t believe that crap still bothers me 😂😂

@karakask5488

Ай бұрын

@@DaughterofDiogenes People apparently get very emotional in bookstores. There many insults that still live in my head. People don't think that store staff has emotional/mental health but are just punching bags instead.

“The public sucks, fuck hope.” - George Carlin

@Psilocybin77

Ай бұрын

I drive a large truck for a living and was thinking the same thing. People are hell.

@solk.posner7201

Ай бұрын

I feel like it is the hyper individualism and materialism that has made so many people toxic. I’ve lived in a bigger city in South America and people were so chill and kind (outside car traffic of course lol)

@comyuse9103

Ай бұрын

real words of wisdom there

@TESkyrimizer

Ай бұрын

I've never behaved rudely to strangers in my life (although I have been curt at times without being aware of it) Some people just go through life behaving like utter jackholes without consequence and they should face more repercussions for bad behavior before they are allowed out in public, frankly.

@dangerousdays2052

Ай бұрын

Whenever my Instacart shopper screws something up, I call the company to try and get them fired. If they can't do their job right, then they don't deserve their job.

Guys, don't let Michael get down to Zero stars, I can't bear to see him get in Black Mirror jail.

The part of gig economy I'm most concerned by is the sheer volume workers i emcounter who are retirement age. Not entirely comfortable with the most exploitative work being performed by people who should be done working.

@cadesmandela1935

Ай бұрын

“Retirement is a privilege not a right. If you can’t afford to take care of yourself, you don’t deserve free handouts. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps like the rest of us” - some guy who was born and raised upper middle class and had a trust fund since he was 5

@internalizedhappyness9774

Ай бұрын

“Not entirely comfortable” dang dude we almost got you to say you hate something basic! wow, what a great take no one’s ever thought of this before…

@Window4503

Ай бұрын

@@internalizedhappyness9774Chill. They’re just sharing their thoughts. Just because it wasn’t worded the way you would have written it or the most original comment (which isn’t the point of trying to start a discussion btw) doesn’t mean you get to be nasty to strangers…which is ironically the point of the video.

@internalizedhappyness9774

Ай бұрын

@@Window4503 chill I’m just sharing my thoughts! 😠

@deadcard13

Ай бұрын

@@internalizedhappyness9774 ??? Who else has been commenting about old folks doing these jobs?

We just call our social credit score: "algorithm" Same lyrics different beat.

@Okgeneric

Ай бұрын

the technopticon is far more than simply the algorithm. the algorithm itself isn't directly surveilling you, it is just a tool that is used in the process of doing so

@msjkramey

Ай бұрын

In what does the algorithm act like a social credit score....?

@SLKibara

Ай бұрын

@@msjkramey Oh you know, treating people like they're numbers, treating people like they aren't individual human beings, treating people like they should be punished for minor mistakes that inconveniences others slightly, stuff like that.

@internalizedhappyness9774

Ай бұрын

You do know credit scores are a thing right… I’m just gonna pretend like you actually don’t know about fact they exist. Or you’re just being obtuse on purpose! 🫵🏼🙂‍↕️

@worschtebrot

Ай бұрын

Funny how the dehumanization works both ways and always in favor of the capitalists. We need to constantly remind ourselves that there are people behind these algorithms who designed them an decided what is considered "good" and what is "bad" and what is valued.

Food delivery and online shopping have destroyed our empathy for service workers. We're further removed from how our things are made and who made them. It sucks watching our socioeconomic collapse happen day by day.

on the topic of the depersonalization of delivery work: when taking pictures of packages, amazon drivers are strictly forbidden from appearing in the frame at all. that means no catching a shoe in the bottom of the frame and no shadows or reflections. amazon truly wants the customer to forget about the real life person who delivered their package entirely

Simpsons predicted Wealth Work back in 'Homer's Enemy' "As a young boy, Frank Grimes got a job delivering toys to more privileged children."

I work at a grocery store and i have a few stories about some wild people but my favorite by far was this very polite suburban mom that i helped out with her groceries. We had some small talk and usual stuff and as I closed her trunk I saw this sticker on her window of a white rabbit. I had never seen it before so I asked what it was about, She confidently told me that it was a symbol to let the other followers of Q (Q-Anon) know she was one of them. She then also confidently shared the truth she had come to find on social media, including how US taxes were ultimately collected to pay for the English Monarchy and how when she went missing (and there was no doubt she would in her mind) she would be disappeared into the death camps run by FEMA for all the "pure" people, which meant the unvaccinated. I was so bewildered that I just wished her a good night and left as quickly as possible. I havent seen her again so hey, maybe FEMA is more nefarious then I thought?

@johnchedsey1306

Ай бұрын

If FEMA did remove her from the general public, that's an indication they're LESS nefarious

@user-je5do6jn2f

Ай бұрын

Sounds like the schizo I have to do electrical work around. He's a broken record of the same conspiracy theories.he thinks if he repeats himself enough, they'll come true. F@ck Reagan for letting thr nutters out to breed...

@eurocrime8992

Ай бұрын

She's a good person towards you

I noticed something people did to *me* during Covid...I'm a short little woman. Several times when I'd go get groceries, tall people leaned over me a lot, like I wasn't even there. Literally putting their armpit on top of my head. Once I said, "excuse me" in a very sarcastic way and the man looked at me and said "oh you're ok" like he really thought I was the one doing something wrong 😂

@TreesPlease42

Ай бұрын

That's awful! People are stuck in their own little worlds. It'd be better if we were Aardvarks tbh

@dontmisunderstand6041

Ай бұрын

You being in someone else's way kinda is something you did wrong. Yeah, the more socially acceptable thing for these people to do would be to loudly pretend to be patiently waiting for the assholes to get out of the way and pay attention to their surroundings until you get the hint, but lets not pretend your story is a one-sided thing of people being rude to you.

@Epic_C

Ай бұрын

I guess it depends on if you were just standing there lolly gagging around or not

@JonesysMomma

Ай бұрын

That is insanity. Getting somewhere first isn't that person doing something wrong. The pandemic really showed how on the line people's sanity was. I am agoraphobic, and the rest of you got locked inside a few months and forgot what it takes for society to function. There's never an excuse to reach over a short person/person in a wheelchair/ANYONE, even the polite rude way to get that grocery is to come from the side, in front of them, while saying excuse me, which is still voided by the current health risk. What do you not understand about that? Why did a few months inside make you forget the polite way to be rude?

@tannermclaughlin5001

Ай бұрын

Next time pick an armpit hair out 😂

Am all for the rights for the working class. But when you get shouted at and stepped on the heals by a toxic over bearing manager at a low paying service job, so much so that you gotta go to the freezer room to cry your eyes out - its super hard to maintain perspective. Recognizing that we are victims that nip at each other due to artificial scarcity created by the oppressive corporations is a very active mental process that requires both class consciousness raising and some self work. 'it is what it is' philosophy might help you get by today but actively destroys your soul and others like you.

@frankcooke1692

Ай бұрын

I don't think I buy the whole 'artificial scarcity' line. It's a bit sociology 101. Granted consolidation and price-fixing do exist, like DeBeers or Oil cartels, it's generally frowned upon in a capitalist system. But I think more broadly you're saying that "there's enough to go round - everybody should be rich". And I think that comes from a position of privilege itself. There actually isn't enough for everybody to enjoy your standard of living - and you only have it because other people don't. If we did do some sort of 'great adjustment' - where everybody along the supply chain was paid a more humane wage, we'd all be taking home $10,000 a year and a phone would cost you $5000. Printing money wouldn't solve that problem - you'd have to ask somebody smarter than me to really explain why. But economics isn't the 'soft' science that people like to think - it's just abstract in a way that's difficult to get your head around. But basically 'yeah, money isn't real' or whatever - but it's a pretty accurate representation of something that is. It isn't often fair - but if it was - we'd both have to accept being a lot worse off.

@Loanshark753

Ай бұрын

At least in the US it should be possible to achieve full employment in better jobs. And the concentration of wealth creates inefficiencies of accumulation and non spending and an excessive use of resource on the private property of rich people.

@aloknr2430

Ай бұрын

@@frankcooke1692 I understand what you are saying. However I do believe that it is also in a certain way our inability to imagine a world not under capitalism that makes you feel ‘that economics is abstract in a way that is hard for us to wrap our head around’. Consolidation and vertical integration are both intrinsic to capitalism. I would recommend Lenin’s writing on capitalism and imperialism that illustrates it elegantly. Another central contradiction in capitalism is that profit can only be achieved through wage theft. Hence the accumulation of wealth by capitalists is essentially tied to economic oppression of the workers. Accumulation of wealth over generations by monopolies make them humingously wealthy , so much so that they can grow and seize markets in foreign lands too. the financialization of capital has made conventional market forces make even less sense , abstracting value from goods and services. These are all contradictions intrinsic to capitalism. I agree that a lot of re organization and leadership would be needed , but there definitely is enough for everyone’s consumption. The surplus produce every year that is wasted away (in order to drive prices lower to stay competitive) alone can be sufficient . It’s not a free market as advertised. It’s a rigged system that benefits a few players that gives you the illusion of scarcity, and both supply and demand are heavily controlled and influenced by these few players.

@loke5052

22 күн бұрын

​@@frankcooke1692income inequality is a huge portion of the problem though CEO's getting 500 million dollar bonuses could just as well have split that bonus up to a 1000 dollar bonus for 500000 employees. Or turned into a 100 dollar raise. The people at the very top of this world simply have too much compares to the rest of us

I'm a doordash driver in nyc and here there is a ranking tier that i never took the rating too seriously for until i dropped from platinum to unranked due to a single 1 star review dropping me below 4.8 out of 30 five star reviews, which cost me $400 in wages as the pay rate for platinum is almost double the base pay. From 1 petty customer who rated me that way due to missing utensils

"Eat these bullets breakfast communism!" - This might be the most American thing that I have ever heard. And I want it on a t-shirt. A t-shirt made in China by virtual slaves, so it can be sold in a tourist trap in Miami, managed by a Cuban immigrant family. Ya know, so it's even MORE American.

@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield

Ай бұрын

Thank you shybard for for just quadrupling down on that. Awesome.

@arcturionblade1077

Ай бұрын

That same Cuban immigrant family that unironically votes Republican. Ah, America!

I worked at Walgreens during the later half of the pandemic. We had people getting vaccinated in the back, including vulnerable elderly folks. The amount of people who came in without a mask despite our mask mandate was infuriating. People would get mad and cause scenes; some people even loitered around the front of the warning everyone not to get the vaccine due to [insert conspiracy theory here]. One person I checked out admitted they had tested positive for Covid that morning, then insisted it was fine because they were only buying a few things(after coughing through every aisle in the store)…😣

@HylianFox3

Ай бұрын

Really, if you ever needed proof that empathy in America is dead look no further than the pandemic. Thousands were dying every day, yet people lost their shit for the mild inconvenience of wearing a mask, and insist that everything is okay because "I just have a little cough"

@somedude1901

Ай бұрын

🐑

@brennenderopa

Ай бұрын

​@@somedude1901 🤡

@USSAnimeNCC-

Ай бұрын

Such entitlement can’t they just put on a simple cloth if they don’t have a mask at least

@sendmorerum8241

Ай бұрын

@@somedude1901 🤡

I was laid off from my job during lockdown in 2020 and I’ve been driving for a delivery app since 2021. Customers are generally pretty agreeable. Restaurant workers range from chill to occasionally unkind. The biggest pain points for me are the isolation and the precarity of the job. There’s little to no social interaction on most days. I rarely interact with customers, as I’m typically dropping off food and taking a picture. Picking up food often involves no more than a cursory greeting and then a handoff. You start to feel invisible, or even interchangeable after a while. The fear of getting bad ratings, never being quite sure how much money you’re going to make over the course of a working day and the seemingly arbitrary way orders are distributed all lead to a constant background level of anxiety. The irony is I genuinely enjoy driving around my city and bringing people their food. I’d love to have a delivery job for a nice, locally owned restaurant, but the app based economy has effectively eliminated those types of jobs.

I'm not even fifteen seconds in and I'm already detached. 'Picture your local restaurant'. I don't believe there are any restaurants near me that aren't chains.

@dontmisunderstand6041

Ай бұрын

Almost all chain restaurants are operated by local businesspeople. They're replacing small businesses in the most literal sense... the same people own them as who'd own a small business.

Dammit, no one answered the Amazon delivery question. I usually do the latest delivery, while my wife thinks it doesn't make a difference.

@ballman2010

Ай бұрын

I'm curious too.

@hexmaniac

Ай бұрын

I did dispatch for Amazon and although it depends on what you’re ordering, honestly I think it doesnt make that much of a difference. Maybe only for things like groceries. Their algorithms are crazy fast that orders get instantly rerouted to another driver.

@pest174

Ай бұрын

@@hexmaniac 🙏 thank you for the insight.

@jamesrcollier

Ай бұрын

My theory is that it makes zero difference for any actual worker, whether delivery driver or warehouse worker. But it may make a difference for CO2 emissions, if their fulfillment algorithm can actually put more into one box and ship it all out in one day, rather than in some worst-case scenario like four boxes in four days. If everyone chose the option, Amazon would just cut back on warehouse staff and drivers, so each worker would still be exactly as stressed as before - but total pollution and greenhouse gases would likely drop. (In theory.)

@CalamityCannon

Ай бұрын

This is what want to know! And was hoping for more responses here! But I guess that knowledge requires access to a _lot_ of levels of a complex supply chain management that a limited group of people have

Nah, this gig economy sucks. But being a butler would have been TERRIBLE. That's like 16+ hour days every day, having to live with your employer so you would be on call and your housing was tied to your employment, being lucky to get a single day off in a month, having to deal directly with entitled people basically 24/7, all the weird inescapable social/professional/economic heirarchies, intense & weird etiquette rules, no unemployment insurance, risking getting sent to "the poor house" if you got fired and your reputation was ruined

@dontmisunderstand6041

Ай бұрын

Almost all of this is perfectly descriptive of the service industry. The literal only thing that MIGHT not be is "having to live with your employer". Sometimes that's not the case, but sometimes it is. 16+ hour days, always on call, being lucky to get a single day off in a month, having to deal directly with entitled people 24/7, the weird inescapable hierarchies, the strange etiquette rules, no unemployment insurance, housing tied to employment, risking permanent damage to your reputation resulting in death if your employer just decides to be an asshole.

If they add heart rate people would just use it as a way to judge delivery quality. "Heart rate dropped below 100, must be slacking, 2/5 stars."

@rainbowdragon1872

Ай бұрын

Sad part is, thats not even an exaggeration

My story about work is that I work for Amazon in what can be described as customer service role in a case by case basis. A lot of metrics are tracked, dir example case reopens. A case was reopened with the message "thank you for solving my problem, great job" and it was counted against my performance because reopens are negative. Also at a recent work function, I overheard the boss of my boss saying that he dislikes german work protections because he would sometimes like to get rid of the bottom quartile of workers and since that I can't get it out of my head that he was specifically talking about me.

We don't see people as people anymore we only see eachother as amorphous blobs

@TreesPlease42

Ай бұрын

The methodology is thus: If you're not of immediate use to me, then why are you here?

@ParallelPenguins

Ай бұрын

Not blobs, just a means to get what we want, or an obstacle in the way of what we want. It's some bullshit. I really is.

@emanym

Ай бұрын

Women under the age of forty see the majority of men that way, and then they get older and discover that their social status flowed from their and youth and beauty. They thought they had a moral wisdom that others perceived, but they were wrong. A woman who has not acquired lasting wealth and status in her youth discovers she’s now the least part of the blob she held in disdain 😅

@rchong91

Ай бұрын

We are still just animals...

@alexthewrecker4666

Ай бұрын

Way to generalize 50% of the global population 😂​@@emanym

I have worked food service, retail, and customer service. We need to be nicer to each other. We really do. Like, holy shit. Management and CEOs see you as a $ they have to pay out. Customers see you as an obstacle in the way of what they want or taking up their time. They don't see you as a human person. Your fellow workers are too stressed and over worked and underpaid to help you out, cuz they are in the same boat as you. It is hell. It's been hell probably well before the modern day, but like we don't need to keep it hell. We can be nicer to each other. We need to be at least basically decent to each other, nothing special, just not a dick. Please. I am not looking forward to a world where everyone is in the 'gig economy'. If they put biometrics in there to get people to be more empathetic to workers people are going to begin ignoring the metrics because they aren't in a headspace to be able to care about another person when they too are stuck in the 'gig economy'. This is some absolute bullshit.

As a delivery driver in nyc and having to go to service entrances because the illusion of not seeing service workers is so important I approve this message

My wife has worked for [unnamed Canadian drugstore chain] for almost a decade, and if their system is indicative of a broader trend, the Review system in the service industry is fundamentally broken. I don't know off-hand how the "math" that Corporate came up with shakes out, but basically if someone fills out a customer review that isn't as positive as can be ("Strongly Agree" in every field), it's treated as a Negative review. If fewer than 75-80% of the reviews that come in don't meet that steep threshold of being Positive, the head manager in charge of the whole store could be fired and replaced by Corporate. So we occasionally spend some of our off time filling out bogus glowing reviews, to keep the numbers up. It sucks.

@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield

Ай бұрын

I was surprised when working at a retail place that they required a perfect 10 scores across the board on any reviews, or it got the managers b*tched at by corporate. I rarely review places, and when I do it's almost always positive, but perfection is not something I would usually do, ever. So that sucks to think that possibly even the best intentions and reviews I left still may have hurt instead of helped due to completely insane expectations of corporate.

@HiSodiumContent

Ай бұрын

No review > 4.9/5 review.

@sorejack

Ай бұрын

yep, worked directtv and att intall and service. if the review i got, witch was mandatory to get the customer to fill out, was less than all fives, i had to go to the office on moday at six in the morning an hour and a half from my area and do a class on customer service. and my pay rate lowered.every week id get a bad rating from someone who didnt like not being able to choose their channels, the price, the number of days it took to come. things that had nothing to do with me. top quility installer. lowest paid because i took longer doing it right. when i quit they harrassed me for a year. not once budging on paying more or hourly or even getting rid of these stupid meetings.

@HylianFox3

Ай бұрын

Exactly. So many places have an "All or Nothing" approach to reviews. If you're being rated in multiple areas, and you get 5 stars in all of them except for one 4.5 rating, then the whole thing is treated as if you'd gotten a 0. It's insane. Perfect is the enemy of Good.

"The friction of intimacy" is a great album title

I remember my first job where a woman hurled death threats at me for accusing her son of stealing when I had never seen either of them before they came up to my register. Her evidence was that I looked at her son "too long". Meanwhile I still had to scan all their items while trying not to cry. By far the worst I'd ever been humiliated in my entire life.

@toe2328

Ай бұрын

You are awesome! (I would not have been so cool.🙄) I'm sorry for the negativity suffered in that moment. But you positively answered a very demanding moment without breaking. Yes. Some people are angry, all the time; and do not own a lock for it. (I wonder about the her kid... Does she talk to them that way too? Poor thing🙁) Anyway. You rock!🫡

I'm a person that runs a movie theatre. Indeed, Michael is right about how going to the theatre has changed in the last few years since the pandemic. People's aren't coming anymore and People's expectations have skyrocketed. Most of my negative reviews have more to do with amenities we've never had or simply blaming us for them not liking the film

I like the addition of the rating that changes throughout the video that you react to. It adds a bit of humor while also giving people a glimpse of what it's like when service workers read their ratings on the apps.

I work with a guy who does Uber on the side. He delivered a car part that was a 30 minute drive. He only earned $3 for the delivery and the customer was not allowed to tip because tipping only works with food.

@benjamindover4337

Ай бұрын

So why did he do it? Is he dumb or something?

@SocialRebellion

Ай бұрын

@@benjamindover4337 i think he was just unaware of the rule at the time.

@headpump

Ай бұрын

What, the customer couldn't give him a cash tip? Jerk.

These apps are very destructive. I am pretty happy that they have basically made no progress in Germany. People almost always just go get their food and usually just sit down and eat it and talk for hours. The apps mostly look like a good way to make your life even worse.

@perfectallycromulent

Ай бұрын

If you're disabled and can't go out to get your food and other things, they are life changing in a postive way.

@Immudzen

Ай бұрын

@@perfectallycromulent I agree on that and I think in that case it is perfectly fine. However, I see many people use it constantly where that is not the case and it ends up costing them a lot of money and makes their life much worse.

@ookamiblade6318

Ай бұрын

@@perfectallycromulentI was about to to say I’m disabled and unable to drive, there is no mass transit in my area and stores are too far away with no sidewalks to access them. These apps are the only thing that allow me any measure of independence. That being said because I am aware of how valuable they are for me I tip as much as I'm able and thank the delivery drivers. Granted it's not always a good interaction from the customer side either, once I had to listen to a 15 min lecture on how ‘coming to Jesus’ would ‘heal me and let me walk again’ before getting my food.... So it’s a mixed bag.

@thanksmaybe4103

Ай бұрын

Germany is very destructive

@Immudzen

Ай бұрын

@@ookamiblade6318 This kind of thing makes me sad. Part of the reason I like Germany is that markets are close to where people live. Most can walk to a bakery or market within 5 minutes. I understand how much these apps help you but we have made the places we live into car infested hellscapes and that is a large part of the reason for why you need these apps.

As a middle-aged someone who has been forced into gig work after dealing with Long-Covid for the past 2 years, I am actually grateful that 90% of the time I don’t have to physically deal with the upper 10% income earners that I serve as a Door Dash and Instacart driver. Yes, I know that the gig economy is a racket and that these companies are fucking evil and ultimately bad for most of us. But for now, I don’t have to look into the eyes of these people and see their pity. And I feel that most of these wealthy folks don’t want to awkwardly pretend that I exist in the same world that they do. Because I don’t

My former company, Atomic provisions/Fat Sullys/Denver Biscuit Company, was forcing employees to work for the sub-minimum wage even when they were doing un-tipped labor. Some employees asked to receive minimum wage for those hours and were denied. Meanwhile the company just opened its 8th store with plans for two more in the next year. Service workers are being paid LESS than MINIMUM WAGE because of corporate greed.

Service worker here. We use to have to kiss everyone's butts, but now we are generally allowed to tell people where to shove it and at what angle. So that's improvement I suppose.

@potapotapotapotapotapota

Ай бұрын

yeah most places where you aren't allowed to establish boundaries with customers lead to the business going out of business

@rainbowdragon1872

Ай бұрын

Ans whats funny is that it starts to solve the rude customer provlem. One day working at walgreens like....something snapped and i had enouvh. Anx i sfarted telling people to shove it. Not only did those customefs either stop or just not come.back, i ended yp telling people off lesz and lesz cause they were acting right

I did doordash for a bit during the peak lockdown era as a 19 year old who just got their license and thought it would be easy money. Got bored and fed up pretty quick. Only 1 in every 10 orders would be worth it. I spent nearly 20 minutes in a burger king drive thru plus another 20 minute drive just to pick up a smoothie for some 12 year old for the equivalent of $3. I dont know how people do it like a career tbh

Blake seems fun to hang out with. I'm of the opinion that we all need to have at least one friend in our circle that's agreeable and kind, but also really really dumb.

I refuse to use these apps until delivery companies start paying their drivers a livable wage instead of relying on customer tips.

''The death of empathy'' that's a good one

People who complain about being broke and then using Uber eats piss me off to no end.

What's really heartbreaking is Pizza Hut outsourcing to Doordash for their deliveries. Costs went up significantly. Large pepperoni pizza will be around $40 when it was advertised for $19.99

@dontmisunderstand6041

Ай бұрын

Pizza Hut turns really good ingredients into mediocre pizza. Raise your standards, get good pizza instead.

@Epic_C

Ай бұрын

We need to go back to the 80s

@jamesvanitas

Ай бұрын

They also used to have buffet style restaurants, but they got rid of that too😒

@HylianFox3

Ай бұрын

All chain pizza is disgusting. I can't believe I ever used to like Pizza Hut or Domino's etc as a kid. Always order local. There are two pizza places near me that I frequent instead, so much better.

@Ottobon

Ай бұрын

reminder the person who delivers it on doordash specifically only gets 1 to 2$ base pay before tip with no mileage pay if outside cali, before any tip assuming there is one. yes you read that right. And funfact its 1$ if its a stack (2 orders at same time to two locations), which is if anything twice as much work and puts the driver at much higher risk for bad reviews, all because they are forced to take orders or earn almost nothing ("acceptance rate".) all those fees and upcharging you payed just go into the ether

McDonalds famously chose to open up teh barrier between kitchen and serving food to build trust and safety. By showing people how their food was prepared in a passive way, the customers trusted the food more, and the restaurant received better retention.

"but then you're in your 30s, and you have basically the same body." - I wish I had the same body I had in my teens and 20s.

Wisecrack ten years ago: wacky videos analyzing books and movies. Wisecrack today: most depressing channel on KZread

@azorahigh3218

Ай бұрын

the daily show effect. comedy is the only way social issues can be exposed without it being chewed to shreds by traditional media, which sold its soul to the corporatocracy decades ago.

@henryreinhart

Ай бұрын

Welcome to getting older.

I’ve never used food delivery because I’m not so lazy I pay 2x to not leave the house, but this year I have not spent any money at Amazon or Starbucks. I’m sick of these shit corporations.

I think it has alot ot do with entitles drivers. I have done 215 deliveries over the past 2 weeks resulting in 34 positive customer reviews and 3 positive reviews from the stores. I earn on average $110-150 for a 4 hour dinner rush and $90-110 during my 3 hours breakfast rush. I have also found 100% of the other drivers I talk to are extreamly rude, entitled, dont handle the food with care and I refuse to order food from the app Ia drive for due to meeting the other drivers who would be delivering my food. Its no wonder I keep having customers thanking me like I just saved their life as they tell me they wish they could request to have me each time as they are sick of the other drivers unprofessionalism.

@mueffe1357

22 күн бұрын

2 weeks? Try 2 years. You will developed a thousand yard stare and questions your life choices.

I wholeheartedly support Michael in making a video teaching these strange creatures known as humans about movie attendance etiquette! 🙋🏻‍♀️

Well done. This is very validating for me as someone who thought after the pandemic lockdowns eased and people returned to restaurants and such, where they could once again sit and have a nice meal while others served them with hospitality, that people would be grateful. ON the contrary, they were even more entitled, impatient and as a result, unbearably rude. I have long thought that the catering to peoples every whim and desire through fulfillment apps like door dash, amazon and uber eats, etc, contributed to peoples inflated sense of entitlement. They could have anything they wanted delivered to their front door and never have to interact with a human. And when people went back out into restaurants and stores, they thought they could be shitty to real humans when things didn't go exactly as they would like. I feel like the level of narcissism (not a psychologist BTW) has risen to a level that will become self perpetuating given the continuation of these conditions and nothing short of a catastrophe will bring things back to a place where people appreciate one another. Sebastian Junger describes this in his book TRIBE. Fuckin' bleak man. Total bummer. I just try to not be like that and keep good people around me. I have no time for people who treat service workers like shit and who never even consider the mail delivery person or amazon worker.

This video was BRUTAL to your social credit score. I recommend doing some unpaid volunteer work to help get those numbers up!

In customer service you not only have to be "happy" with customers, but you have to be "happy" at every moment of the day with co-workers. "Lift up the team, show your support, be fun!" is the new bullshit emotional labor.

Unusual way to do a Black Mirror videos essay, but it's good.

My mom tried working as a waitress and she quit after two weeks because she wanted to strangle one of the customers to death. Service jobs be tough.

But we can't have workers thinking they're people! If they do, they'll think they're entitled to things like decent pay or dignity, and that would just be absurd.

Worked in the restaurant industry for close to 18 years. Quit after mandates started lifting. Upon return I was nearly in 3 physical altercations. One involving a customer throwing his take away box at me. Also had an old lady ask me how far my apron went down and went to physically grab my junk. People became unhinged for sure, everyday there was something crazy going on. Not to mention my coworkers that suddenly decided to buy into qAnon conspiracy theories. Was happy to leave and have never looked back since.

i worked at a bestbuy in ottawa canada during the trucker antivax convoy if you remember that. The best buy i worked at was right next to a big hotel where many of the folks from out of town stayed. I had a number of people complain about wearing masks (boring) but 1 in particular had a sweater with justin trudeau being taken from behind by fauci and suprisingly this customer wore his mask properly but made sure to let me know that he wished the employees werent forced to wear them. I told him I didnt mind

+1 for the idea of making the series "Micheal teaches you how to go to the movies like a human" I'm still having difficulty with that :(

It's pretty hilarious hearing him complain about his task rabbit contractors while also distressing about leaving a negative review

recently a uber driver was killed because she was used by scammers to pickup ransom from an old man who thought she was one of the scammers

@nannywhumpers5702

Ай бұрын

I just looked that up, that is tragic all around.

Death Stranding, yes, we're in hell.

@internalizedhappyness9774

Ай бұрын

Of course Kojima predicted the future… 😮‍💨

Instead of everyone pleading we tip servers, why don't we just elect someone who will demand they are paid more? This is silly.

@Dave_of_Mordor

Ай бұрын

You won't elect that person that's why they "beg" you to tip.

@Sephiroth144

Ай бұрын

Trump vs Biden- how much choice did you have in picking the two options available the rerun?

@loke5052

22 күн бұрын

Bernie was too woke, he was perhaps their only hope

Hey Michael, just wanna say, I'd have given you 5 stars, but there weren't enough references to Baudrillard, so I had to dock you a point. Also, perfect service is impossible, and I only ever rate at most a 4.9, so it's a 3.9 today.

Zero mention of Producer Henry, 1 star.

@henryreinhart

Ай бұрын

As a fellow Henry who can’t bear to see another Henry feel slighted, I’ll also rate this 1 star.

I'm realizing I am slowly but surely becoming the trucker in that black mirror episode.

Here are so many bicycle delivery persons just loitering and waiting for orders near the food places that in many locations they're no longer allowed to wait inside, which looks pretty miserable when it rains and they desperately huddle under every nearby cover. I can't really blame the business owners because some of the drivers are really rude and entitled to the staff and regular customers.

@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield

Ай бұрын

Umm, just a suggestion for someone that feels inclined, a good picture of that sad rainy scenario could be a good poignant art thing.

@0gham

Ай бұрын

Add to that that Uber incentivized car delivery over bikes about 2 years ago. I went from being overbooked and busy to getting maybe 1 order an hour so I just stopped doing it

we are the real monsters

@TreesPlease42

Ай бұрын

Like in Scooby Doo, the monster is always a person

Seems like this is more of a US problem than anywhere else and I think it is largely down to the tipping culture that makes service employees totally dependent on customer satisfaction - even when it is unreasonable.

This reminds me so much of Superstore. It’s actually quite impressive how most series simply ignore the pandemic, but a series about service workers not only acknowledges it, but shows what a big deal it was for their day to day (considering it’s still a sitcom ofc)

Good video, have a 5-star review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Amazing commentary and provocative topic!

I worked in a movie theatre 20 years ago - people have always been emotionally unhinged or ready to blow when it’s time to sit in the dark and watch something enjoyable with some snacks. 50% more if they have groceries that are perishable that they would rather grip in their greasy fingers for 2 hours than let teens store for them in industrial freezers so no one trips and dies from falling down many, many stairs.

Fantastic commentary and provocative topic

Legends say he is still trying to get his rating back up.

Thanks a lot Blake...

Any time someone rated me negatively I always replied with a review of what kind of customer they were along with a 0-5 out of 5 stars as a response and for really hardass problem asshats I would post to their social media with links to their reviews so their friends and family could see exactly how they treated service people. I was fired from 2 delivery jobs and kept at one for far longer then I planned because my boss loved my up front honesty, work ethic and not allowing myself to get pushed around by customers.

this was s pretty cool and dynamic long video, I think the idea of putting the "rating points" Michael was winning and losing in the video was pretty cool as it was an example of concepts discussed in the video, a critic to the system and also a way to make the video more interesting! I encourage you guys keep it going! love you!

And people criticize me for not doing business with Amazon

Loved seeing you on the Breakroom today!

I was working at starbucks during masked mandate, and a customer ordered a cup that said President Trump. She was upset no one was upset.

I worked as an online CSR for 3+ years during the pandemic. The only medical plan we had was 10 minute bathroom breaks or a 5 minute cry break when a customer abused us. No HR to turn to, no way to advance. I once toyed with the idea of trying to echo- proof my bathroom so I could work while taking a crap to cut down on time away which would count against you.

So I am supposed to be infinitely patient and infinitely compassionate with constant late/wrong orders, too many high delivery fees, and a healthy tip that I cannot afford, no matter the quality or timing of service? Not likely.

Love the sound mixing on this video

Its strange. And maybe it's because of my retail work. But I'm hyper aware of the weather and general conditions. I've not ordered food because of bad weather. And I even will call Amazon to delay delivery of my packages so I can at least pretend I'm trying to keep one of their drivers safe, from bad weather. Much to the shock of their phone reps

I feel it shows just how precarious we all feel life is (I'm assuming no one here is a 1%er). That everyone is a lukewarm burger away from an assault charge is probably something Governments should be paying attention to rather than actively making it worse.

Fuuuuck, surveilled by AI sounds very dystopian

I’m an Amazon DSP driver. When people see me show up at their door when they happen to be home, they look at me like some kind of alien or something. There’s the nice person that will talk to me here and there but it is funny to me that people think their packages “magically materialize” on their doorstep, lol

Aren't we getting worse to everybody nowadays? Society is full of arrogant entitled a-holes. And we are so focussed on cash. We admire rich people and despise poor ones. Thus, the "pettier" your job is, people will be worse and feel superior.

I'm from Denmark, and hearing you speak Danish made my day! Good job, Michael 😊🤜