History of Education and History of Prison would be really great!

@ozzyfromspace

4 жыл бұрын

I agree!

@eldonjamesnebriagabrownii2502

4 жыл бұрын

I don't it needs to remain history

"The career crisis." I feel better knowing there is a term for this terrible feeling.

@sergioramos3437

8 жыл бұрын

same

@sergioramos3437

8 жыл бұрын

same

@dsarrach

7 жыл бұрын

Same feeling here. I'm going to google the shit out of that. Specially with a humanities/art degree under my arm, I had this feeling for the most part of my life.

I love the advert line: "You'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984." It gave me a good chuckle.

@SenhorAlien

3 жыл бұрын

W-was it?

Eden: Work is an unpleasant punishment. Aristotle: Finding fulfillment and doing spectacular things is impossible when you're poor and have to earn money. Early Christianity: Work is terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible but we gotta do it anyways cuz God said so. Renaissance: Money, ambition, joy and creative genius are best together. Martin Luther: We shall use our talents for good. Even small ones are important and please God. Ordinary jobs are sometimes even better. Enlightenment: The Encyclopedie, explaining things about different everyday jobs. Marks: Boring, uneducational work that doesn't develop one's talents and personality is the worst capitalism does. Veblen: rich people are lazy assholes. 1945: MBTI YAAAY! Also people make a cult out of work, which is not good. Cults aren't good as a whole. But it's great that they choose people by their talent and personality. Now: We have very high expectations and are often unfulfilled by our work. (don't mind me, this is the most convenient way to take notes)

@TeKeyaKrystal

4 жыл бұрын

Aristotle wasn't too far off

@denverdean2663

4 жыл бұрын

Great! thank you for this. It's Marx btw

@molotovmafia2406

4 жыл бұрын

@@denverdean2663 what a mistake lmao.... Especially for a person who is now a communist and has read some marx

This video is bang on. I'm at work, in the office now, watching this, because there is nothing else for me to do here.

@jamesbaker9677

7 жыл бұрын

Theres always the vacuuming to do!

@WhatYaReading

7 жыл бұрын

Pornhub??LOL

@jalexseva4190

5 жыл бұрын

saaaaame

@cdelize

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@alexisaragones

3 жыл бұрын

Same. I mean, there is "something" to do, but nothing creative, dynamic that fills the soul. Then it's better to inform and enrich our souls on a Friday afternoon through high quality videos like these.

Watching this at work.

@K0ragg

9 жыл бұрын

Vaibhav Gupta Amusing.

@fadi77fadi77

8 жыл бұрын

+Vaibhav Gupta That's a job I would like to do.

@vaibhavgupta20

8 жыл бұрын

parasiticjustice well lot of my friends wants do my job.

The amount of research and work that goes into these videos is absolutely amazing.

@mikeharrington2793

4 жыл бұрын

that's the beautiful irony of this particular video's topic.

@peaceleader7315

Жыл бұрын

Within our communism philosophy is work will be reduces to as choices.. hmmmm..

lol Apple. So much for not becoming like the 1984 commercial. I'm sure the Chinese factory workers would have something to say.

@TeKeyaKrystal

4 жыл бұрын

:-(

@joelhc9703

4 жыл бұрын

If they have something to say is because they have a work that gives them that posibility. You can't speak for them since you're not in their situation or background.

@SenhorAlien

3 жыл бұрын

@@joelhc9703 slaving away for low wages and long hours... and in case you watched the news recently, sometimes not even getting paid in time or full amounts... if you think there's no problem with this and "they have an opinion because they're given this privilege", you're seriously wrong in the head.

I'm meant to serve my McDonald's employers as if they were my kings, for the glory of their logo and to feel that sense of community and pride when I work 10 hour shifts feeding the ever-whining maw of the customers outside. My job is to churn out fatty foods and sugary drinks that actively damage my community, but make money for the CEO who doesn't get out of bed. All in pursuit of the necessary number in my pocket that keeps me from being filthy, hungry and ignored.

@muhammadhalwashi4512

Жыл бұрын

It is very sad to read this. It is the modern slavery. Yet, there is no way out.

I recommend reading "In Praise of Idleness" by Bertrand Russell. It's a brilliant, short essay of only a few pages.

@valon18

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bernie, I looked that up great read, eye opening.

@TeKeyaKrystal

4 жыл бұрын

ou , thanks ! listened to the audio version on here

I'm terrified that I won't enjoy my work, that I won't make enough money to live comfortably, that I won't be able to meet the demands placed on me. I don't know if I'm fit for living in this world.

@MuathGhrouz

9 жыл бұрын

Objects need need to be fit.. Humans adapt, change and create No worries, you gonna figure it out ;)

@baronborric

8 жыл бұрын

+Jake Whiten I'm getting my second bachelors degree right now, just for that reason. I know how you feel.

@edwardcarlton2645

8 жыл бұрын

+Jake Whitton Firstly, don't worry about earning "enough". All that means is that you don't spend more than you make, and that doesn't have to be a lot - all depends on how tightly you budget yourself. Secondly, I'm thinking of enrolling on a second degree course when I've only just finished my first - and that's because I think I'll enjoy it more. Don't worry about these things, instead think about what you might like to do most, and see where that leads you.

@slartibartfast426

5 жыл бұрын

I feel you

@johnathanoneal9

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like weakness

Please don't hire an American narrator. I love your voice!

@GodDamnit7711

9 жыл бұрын

***** Thank you kindly!

@pseudonym4893

9 жыл бұрын

***** Will you at least work with additional narrators? It would be nice to have some variety.

@rafalpotasz

9 жыл бұрын

***** Has he ever considered renaming himself to Alan The Button? I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT ABOUT THIS.

This video was really interesting. It reminds me of a quote by Mark Cuban. Cuban says something like "Don't bother yourself too much with finding a job you love right away. Just work hard enough that you become great and your job and therefore love to do it from then on."

@discospider4120

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget that Mark Cuban is one of the richest men in the world, and would be more than happy if he can convince the peons who work for his companies to simply settle for what they have rather than seek truly gainful employment.

This concept of meaningful work is beautiful but very hard to apply in real life for most of the world. While I currently have such a job, I achieved that by lowering expectations on other aspects of my career, like money and prestige. For me it's a very good trade off that I found after years of struggle to identify successful combination. I also remember how ok I was with being a waitress in my teenage years before having ideals of fulfilling work. What I find worrying is that there are a lot of people with a lot harsher jobs which they chose on the basis of making a living and how deeply disturbing it is/will be for them to consider their situation from this "meaning work" point of view. In truth, this criterion is still hard to apply as a general rule. However, we are the closest we've ever been to that possibility due to the prospect of robots taking over the repetitive and mechanical jobs and thus leaving mostly fulfilling options. I'm very keen to see what new kinds of occupations people will take on when the current industrial revolution style 8h work day will (finally) become obsolete.

@imbispo6037

Жыл бұрын

Another really important point is the spectation and the desire it leaves on us, seen such a possibility, even if hard, possible, have a surprising power of leaving us feeling like we are in a bad situation and wasting our lives; All as a perment background feeling. Even if our jobs are really ok, or even good, the desire this idea can generate, causes it to be experience as much worse than it would be, if we had no desire of achieving a improbable meaningfull job. This for me, went unoticed as one of the biggest causes of my disstisfaction with my current job. when i was able to rid of this desire, i found i could be very happy staying at this job for the rest of my life. Im not saying we all shouldnt persue such jobs, it can be great depending on who you are and your situation, but we should be very aware that our main reason for wanting to do so, isnt our situation, but the sofering this idea can generate

I made my own work. I love it. I flopped around from job to job for years and I finally realized I would need to make my own work. Best decision I ever made.

@sanderbrust

4 жыл бұрын

What are you doing?

why is this the best channel on youtube?

@K0ragg

9 жыл бұрын

Alice Banaszewski Who said that?

@abanaszewski985

9 жыл бұрын

K0ragg i did

@K0ragg

9 жыл бұрын

Alice Banaszewski Ok, I'm confused. Was it a rhetoric question or were you genuinely baffled as to why people think this is the greatest channel? Or...something else?

@abanaszewski985

9 жыл бұрын

K0ragg haha my bad, it was rhetoric

@K0ragg

9 жыл бұрын

Alice Banaszewski Thought it was, my bad as well. Thanks for clarifying. I concur, though I have this feel somewhere within the depths of KZread there may lie even something greater...

Great video! My thoughts: work has become the standard way to become useful to our community. Most of us would find great satisfaction in being useful. The problem is that most of us think of work as a personal struggle to survive, we fail to see how our work benefits others. A probable reason for this might be the "division of labour" and globalization. If I'm in charge of pouring plastic pellets into a machine that makes plastic buttons which in turn will be sold to another company which will assemble it into an electronic component which then will be shipped to a car assembly plant, then, it will be very hard for me to "feel" the value of my effort, and my job might feel useless.

Watching this ,sitting on a overcrowded bus ,on your way home from WORK...... Really transport you to a whole new weird place of introspection and self pity !

Germany 1990s: "Work is stupid."- slogan of the German anarchist party. It's not so much that I mind work, but often it is merely the mindless bidding of idiots. Even the slaves in Egypt could look upon the pyramids and say "I helped build that".

@afasia2341

5 жыл бұрын

No slaves built the pyramids though !

@iseeu-fp9po

4 жыл бұрын

@@afasia2341 And who did?

@jiggersotoole7823

4 жыл бұрын

@@iseeu-fp9po they weren't slaves. A little bit of research h will confirm this.

@iseeu-fp9po

4 жыл бұрын

@@jiggersotoole7823 I was asking, not being sarcastic.

@jiggersotoole7823

4 жыл бұрын

@@iseeu-fp9po Sorry. I take that comment back.

These videos are great. I really do enjoy this channel. This is so true. Work is a challenge in so many ways.

This channel is extraordinary - you bring complexity to concepts I often took for granted. Thank you

Great and thoughtful video, as always. I can't get enough of your style of graphics. Turning the apple logo into the forbidden fruit in the hands of Eve was an incredibly strong, symbolic feature. Mighty clever.

Love your guy's videos. Keep them coming!

Another wonderful video from TSoL. Especially when I'm currently struggling to find employment in the creative/design industry in London.

Great video-- with that last thread about technology liberating/complicating contemporary work, I couldn't help but think of the rise of automation, especially *"Humans Need Not Apply"* by CGP Grey. Creative (Renaissance-like) freelance work will likely be the only human jobs in 100 years.

@anorangutan511

9 жыл бұрын

Paul Keefer Haha! I took too long writing my comment. We are like minded.

@JBinero

9 жыл бұрын

Paul Keefer Not as long as governments and unions keep doing everything to stop automation. Automation is already cheaper but often robots are made artificially expensive or workers artificially cheap, or companies are simply forced to keep their workers that automation can't expand as fast as it could otherwise. Instead of stopping progress we need to change the economic model to allow for this automation.

@jimadams3623

9 жыл бұрын

Jeroen Bollen If we allowed automation to grow, majority wouldn't work, people would live a leisurely, inactive life. The machine owners would send everyone a portion of his profits to pay for their lifestyle. Work is in our DNA so i don't think we'll adapt.

@JBinero

9 жыл бұрын

jim adams DNA changes, evolution. Anyway, we don't have to stop working, we can just do more enjoyable work.

@anuragkapale

9 жыл бұрын

Paul Keefer The same thought came to my mind. I was searching through comments if anyone else also thought the same. Glad to see your comment.

Great video, I am exited for the rest of this series!!

One of the most important episode that touches our very livelihood.

I loved this one, you've outdone yourself ! Lots to think about...

Christian tradition does not say the punishment was to work, but to work WITH EFFORT. In fact the Bible says "God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and take care of it". So the difference was not Work but suffering: "Painfully will you get your food from it [the soil] as long as you live.".

@jakeself1911

9 жыл бұрын

You beat me to it, and said it more eloquently than I would have.

@K0ragg

9 жыл бұрын

***** Fine chap! We must be grateful he allows us to live!

@K0ragg

9 жыл бұрын

***** I was being ironic?

@K0ragg

9 жыл бұрын

***** I know right, they sure are. I kind of agree with what you said, even if I prefer not being so agressive about it, since they tend to just get even more stubborn. It's the sad reality. Either way, no worries, take care yourself!

@K0ragg

9 жыл бұрын

tonyfalca I guess in the given contenxt, I was rather sarcastic, true.

I only work to earn money, for one day I can work on something I really like and love

I suppose that is why the Sabbath is soo helpful. Amen and Shalom :)

Believe it or not the thing that brought you the most pain in life, and the creative alleviation of that type of pain in others is a great place to start for fulfilling work. The money will just be a plus. Dig deep there for the soil is rich!

Great short overview of something that we have completely lost sight of as modern material consumerists

Keep up the good work (Y) Loving these videos!

Amazing job you're doing.

"The cult of working hard and be very very busy all the time. Soon only the unemployed are idle, everyone else is working away furiously. The richer you are the more you keep working, to show that you are good and serious. Being idle is the new taboo."

In pre-agricultural times there was no difference between work and leisure. The distinction only came about after trade and money was developed

I read all your books with the narrative style of your videos

I absolutely love this channel

Thank you. Great video!

1984: "You'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984." 2018: "You'll see why 2019 will be like 1984."

Thank you for making this, great job

According to the Bible, Adam had to work even in the garden, however, the work was enjoyable, and not slavic

@HawkK

5 жыл бұрын

It wasn't relating to or denoting the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian ( East Slavic ), Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Sorbian ( West Slavic ), and Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovene ????

@schlorpnavekapitalismam8546

5 жыл бұрын

@@HawkK what are you on about?

@jaymindmusic7397

4 жыл бұрын

You mean slavish? 😉

@theflipkartelcom

4 жыл бұрын

Im sure Slavic is not the word maybe u should sayok im very sorry

@ladybayside7547

4 жыл бұрын

I believe some people try to interpret the Bible without actually reading it. Adam was indeed to tend the garden because humans need creative employment just as God is a creative worker. We are created in His image. Sin made work hard.

A lot of work went into that VIDEO..Well done

i really like your videos and your on the right track i remember when i was on that point one time ^^ but i believe soon you will go even deeper in the "spiritual world" and then you will see the connection between almost everything in almost all your videos :) keeo going my friend

Great video! I know it has been done on other KZread channels, but I would love to see a follow up of this. It would be taking off from the Macintosh portion of this video and would examine the future of work - in relation to the impending automation boom. The video could include the effects of events that are happening right now, such as vehicle automation, would bring up the threat it presents to capitalism in general (how will we make money? UBI? Negative taxable income?) and bring up several options of people returning to more creative and meaningful work. Additionally, you could compare how people reacted to the industrial/analog automation revolution vs how we will handle the upcoming digital/electronic automation revolution. I have a ton of ideas, but even more blanks to fill in. I realize it's not exactly your cup of tea as you mainly examine historical figures in your videos and this is more of a "future unknown". Some figures still apply Herbert Marshall McLuhan, Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. has good quotes, Karl Marx again and some futurologists. I don't know, what do you think? FUTURE - Work

Got it! Working on this.

Fascinating.

Rất hay, bức tranh nói lên nhiều ý nghĩa, minh rât thíc video nay!

You guys are awesome!!!!!!!

just lovely your best in a while

Love this! thanks!

Please continue like that, maybe ship your ideas to corporations or national institutions, they need such well-created explanations about life in general

One of the biggest things I think makes work so terrible now vs even just a couple hundred years ago (or in some places now) is the disconnection between work and reward. We disassociate our 9-5 from our biweekly paycheck, and the work we do doesn’t directly affect us or anyone we know (particularly when working for large corporations). If you lived in 1750, had a farm, had a small village and community who all know, care for, and love each other, and the food and supplies you were making were directly fueling your community and your family, you would likely feel much more fulfillment watching your hard work mean something because it’s on a smaller scale.

these are really good! well done!

What I didn’t hear mentioned about the challenge of the future of work was the continued loss of meaningful employment through automation and efficiency.

Excellent presentation.

It is not only the longings for creative work over menial work, but also non-authoritarian workplaces vs authoritarian ones; authentic connection/cooperation with others; and not having the value of one's work exploited.

Could you do a video on Existential Depression please...I do really love these videos, I put my medicine degree on hold to do a semester in philosophy because watching these videos opened my mind to another side of life and death.as well as existence.

work work work work work work work- rihanna

I love how this video about work in real history opens with the Bible story

thank you for the information.... very useful. 💕

I bloody love 'the school of life'

Mind blowing video

6:43 HOLY MOLY! No WONDER why I like MBTI so much. It was made to try and figure out what kind of talents a person has through their natural, individual behaviors and traits.

Love the initial bit

Great topic!

This is good work!

One cause of the unemployment/misemployment problem is britain's abysmal education system. All it does is make children memorise information based on a syllabus, and their "intelligence" is based on how much they can remember. Of course this doesn't work. An A student may not be as intelligent as a D student, because their brains work differently, but the exam boards don't work in way that recognises this. If getting a job only awards people who are able to score As and Bs in their exams, then what are the people who score lower supposed to do? Rot in unemployment, getting by on welfare? This puts a burden on taxpayers. It was reported recently that 75% of school leavers do not have the skills necessary to get a job. Once again, the schools have failed the very basic task to prepare young people for the world of work, let alone life. These same students have been told for years to go to university because they'll get a good job afterwards, but employers demand 3-5 years "work experience". Degrees are now worthless, and all that time and money is wasted for nothing. This is why there are so many out-of-work graduates. The solution is simple: At a young age, children need to be enabled to develop their personalities so that they can be taught according to that test mentioned in this video. There are plenty of ways to educate people with different personalities. That's why so many people are in the wrong jobs and dissasitsfied. I'm so glad it was mentioned in this video. It's not too late to get this implented into schools and job centres, so that it will get people into the right jobs, and content workers. A happy workforce is a productive workforce.

Work is the labor that makes the moving of matter or information in one direction in order for money to move around in the other direction and matter to transform from raw material to trash, or to be recycled until it eventually turns into trash.

Anyone know the name of the Voice Talent? I just love his work! And ofcourse the research team does a great job always. Great storytelling! Keep creating!

I would love to see a video on the History of Human Rights!!!

“Anyone has to earn money to live is a slave. The pursuit of money and good intellectual work is impossible.” - Aristotle

Well I pressure wash sometimes it is fulfilling. get tips occasionally. The other day a past customer actually sent a thank you card to our boss. I guess outside work is pretty gratifying sometimes. Def dont want to pressure wash my whole life, hopefully i can keep learning while eventually finding my own work.

Ok here it is then. I want to watch these videos for a living. I found my passion. SOMEBODY HIRE ME!

great posts. a top channel

Wow... I'm really surprised from accuracy of automatic caption. it's really great for me 'cause I need it to understand this video completely.

Workers of the World Unite!

B Awesome video...

For another perspective, see Thoreau's chapter on Economy in "Walden."

I don't know it's relevant or not but this video just clarifies to me that being lazy and being idle are two completely different things. A lazy person is the one not willing to work or not putting enough effort to his/her work, but an idle is someone who is temporarily unemployed.

APPLE. GENIUS. WOW!

Well done. And a nice inclusion of Veblen.

Thanks a lot ADAM "lOOK WHAT YOU MADE US DO"

Christian doctrine does not say that work is the punishment for Adam & Eve, but rather that work would become difficult. Christian doctrine says that Adam and Eve were placed in the garden to tend it, which is work.

Luther's ideas seem to resonate with those of the Bhakti philosophers of 12th century Indian Subcontinent- It would be a nice idea to present a comparative study of the evolution of concepts all over the world, and not just the christian-dominated West.

I really enjoy watching all of these videos, you should consider to put subtitles in spanish, it'll be wonderful ♡

I love all th School of Life videos. This one though, surprised me as a little simplistic, as it only proposes that the work should be enjoyable. But it does not bother to look into the causes of the alienation in modern work. Mothern work alienates because its conversion into a commodity, its mercantilization.

Some guys in the comments already pointed out that the video is about "our" western view of work and is hence missing a broader perspective. Apart from that I would recommend the book "Brave New World" to anyone who wonders what work looks like in a perfect world. The book really takes things to the next level.

Can you please make an Art and/or Philosophy video about Leonardo da Vinci? I would love that!

2017 - Sweden makes job day to 6 hr a day.

@Komnenit

5 жыл бұрын

G Man Way to go :)

@honkhonk8009

3 жыл бұрын

Breaking news, Sweden's GDP gets fucked

I hope one day i find a job that is both fulfilling and well-paying.

@phatrickmoore

5 жыл бұрын

You might have to create it yourself

As suggested, please make a video on history of education

I, as an atheist, enjoy that the garden of Eden was presented as a historical date. I thought it emphasised the importance of Abrahamic values in Western concepts. This channel never ceases to teach new lessons.

@K0ragg

9 жыл бұрын

Daniel Singh How...depressing is the fact that certain atheists resent any kind of value from religion and disregard it completely...they aren't being any less fanatic than the believers they pity or hate, or both.

I find it sad that we humans have the technology that could reduce boring work to a minimum, and yet all you hear on the media is that unemployment is a negative thing, being idle is somehow wrong. Politicians keep playing the same record, growth, jobs, market "forces", (fake) debt, etc...

Off topic:I like the move away from Euro-centrisim in this video; not that there's anything wrong with Europe. Its the emphasis on great minds that's important to me, not where they come from. That doesn't mean you can't recognize they all don't come form one place. I'm an American, and even I am unfamiliar with most of the figures this video mentioned.

Nice.

Nice summation you classy Brit

It's impressive how Alain De Botton has a perfect diction. I just love to learn while I'm hearing him.

I love how it ended where it started....with the apple