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Published: 2017-09-13
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Q_jf98D18
%HESITATION I am in the last few decades a multibillion dollar industry has developed I call it the escape industry I'm talking about the best selling books that tell you to eat prior and love your way around the world we got a ways in the sky packages white sand beaches in Bali base two weeks of rest relaxation we spend the rest evaluate raining about the skate industry
thrives because of a culture of overwork its products a band aids for the stress loneliness exhaustion I'm constant consumption that have come to dominate our lives it wasn't always like this for older generations a good job is one that let you build a life my stubs were in manufacturing and there was pride to be found in making things that were useful but that real sense of
belonging came from your family and your community you what to live but for my generation generation Y. and for those younger well it has taken on a whole new meaning we are just one a steady job we wanna do what we love we want a career we want to belong just like our parents did but we've been told that the whites who express who we are
is throughout Korea and this means taking just one tiny part of ourselves intending it into a whole identities it means multiple jobs which require extensive training often in places that mainly have to move away from the communities that we grew up in well living to what countless studies I've the last decade have revealed the harm that this causing us public health researchers have identified what they've
tend an epidemic of loneliness with I attain to thirty four year olds the likeliest group level polling company Gallup tells us that any thirteen percent of people happy in that job and the economist and politician entry lady has found that Australians have stopped joining thing I'm not joining churches sporting clubs unions or political pot and he's also I found that we have fewer friends the way
less connected with our neighbors and that way less likely to volunteer it's no coincidence that in this culture filled of living to whack the escape industries blaming because even if like me you're one of the lucky few who do you like your job is to train at a skate not because the things that make life worth living Scott be found in work if you read the
accounts of staff in nursing homes have sat at the bedside of thousands of people they tell us that no one ever wish is that they'd worked more it's less precious hours we've family and with friends that make life meaningful it may also be a creative idea project to spil something outside of the narrow confines of what we've translated into a career with limited ourselves because of
a belief that the only valid way that we can contribute the only way to belong in our society three a job expensive life coaches and well wind backpacking trips around India I'm going to break us out of this culture of living to what what we need is freedom from what and to a tape that we need a movement this isn't a new idea Riley was once
governed by the masters and servants that and under that act an employer could send the police to hunter after their employees if they were gone from work for even an hour without me and then when the place brought the employee back they can present the employee could choose to imprison them or even to talk to them we changed our society through movement for freedom we went
from the sixteen hour to the twelve hour day and then it was a Strela wet his who at the fest in the well to win the eight hour day with no loss of pay within a hundred years we hopped a wet quake yeah and our day was was not suppose to be the end point the movement was never supposed to and that all of the great
leaders and and think his I'm calling marks to John Maynard Keynes all thought that as we develop technology would liberate ourselves fed the from what in fact canes even for that by twenty twenty we have a sustained now wet quake but then just when Jen wise like Mabel being Bowen the movement for freedom to stole by trickle down economics the belief that exponential wealth for the
few will somehow and up benefiting all of us as a result we grew up in a culture that says that productivity is next to godliness that describes human beings as human capital or human resources without the faintest trace of irony manifest Tring jobs are gone and in their place we've got corporate consulting and investment banking it's not normal for young people to buy straight from university
into court fans but I'll spend the rest of their twenties working sixty hour weeks noise of the the good jobs my generation a working harder than ever we've cut down on the part of life that makes us happy and keeps us healthy and for what so that we can generate profits for executives who ran a hundred and fifty times the average worker's salary to create a
world where eight men are Richa then the poorest three point six billion people where only the tiniest fraction of any of the swell that we've created ever comes back to us three tax and with those freedoms that our parents and grandparents one in full full around the cons so what happened to the moon freedom well it's been my sleigh abandoned by many of the unions I
focus on jobs as ends in themselves which leads us to this absurd position where technology that could liberate us from what we could make our lives better is seen as a threat and when failing industries have to have billions of dollars of government spending pumped into them even industries that are destroying our environment so people can hate the dogs instead of presenting another way people could
live so I how can we change the nature of the game well you don't have to pay a full on communist revolutionary to see the fans in Matz's vision of wet his owning the means of production and by the means of production I mean factories energy supply land equipment tools all of the things that we need to make what we need at Morton technology for the
S. and paints is fifteen hour work week actually is a terrible today thank you both for example it has made sixty eight billion dollars by taking a cut of each transaction I'm not so sitting in the pockets of a few rich people but if it were a web client platform every year the driver could and a lot more home while working a lot less Barrett cooperative
versions of a about already springing up all around the world along with cooperative actions of eBay ad aimed a anything consulting fans we can absolutely afford to invest in the eighties make them into credible alternatives our unions are super funds are governments can afford it it only cost fifty million to bring a bit of snow a universal basic income is critical society that truly values human
beings is one that supports everyone no matter the job status and basic income trusts are already underway in Finland in Canada right now we also have to consider and that's a moral choice but working less will will help us because with less wet there's a lot less need for things like pre package the takeaway expensive clothes demanded ships petrol dog walkers house clean as nannies list
goes on and that intent of course means that we're creating less wet for others to have today with automation and massive job losses around the corner it's gonna be a lot of suffering if we could hunt right out of this culture of living to what now environment which much like how lives is being destroyed the profit isn't going to hold up item when I suggested a
just a few of many many options that we could consider the fundamental choice that we have to make is one of values we can spend our lives continuing to generate protest profits for the few all we can build a real sharing economy we can be a line land exhausted in them mansions and on you because well we can really take the time to care for ourselves
and for a Tampa we can eat joyfully we can pray or dream often and we can practice love for ourselves for our friends for a family friend communities daily because when it comes to deciding how to spend the majority of this very short time that each of us has Fiona there's no such thing as a good job but we can choose to live good lives and
