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I "worked" as a technician- essentially a scientist who does the actual work of senior scientists. I worked at many different companies, and the job was almost always the same. I did the work, year after year, and the senior people got paid for it. If something didn't pan out, usually due to the insane ideas some of those who handed ME their work to do, it somehow was MY fault, not the fault of those passing on the actual labor of their work. Because I and my fellow coworker techs were on the low end of the totem pole, we were watched like prisoners in a jail. We weren't in charge of our own work, and we weren't allowed to do anything ourselves, so we played the 'busy' game about 3 out of every 5 days. Meanwhile, the upper level scientists- many of whom had the same education the techs had- usually walked around all day talking about bullshit, not doing much of anything or maybe watching YouTube most of the day, and they were paid at least 5X as much as we were. I was so disgusted with it that after I was laid off- again- due to 'economic conditions' I changed career paths entirely into high-tech manufacturing, thinking it would be different. Now, its the same thing, but instead of scientists its engineers and low-to-mid-level management. I hate the US job market, and the only thing I now have to look forward to is going to sleep every night.
Do yourself a favor and NEVER EVER work for anyone else. Start your own company and NEVER look back. Modern employment is slavery, pure and simple.
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See, this is why I think Brave New World is, in concept, a better book than 1984, and I've read both of them, like, twenty times a piece. But Huxley feared we would be controlled through our pleasure, not our pain, and look what's happened even here online. I consider myself intellectually free because I am actively anti-Capitalist, and I think Chomsky is sexy (intellectually, for God's sake), but I'm just as much a slave to this technology as anyone else. How do you start a capital-R Revolution nowadays when the pervasive mood is a collective "Meh"? And I'm also about to start a Master's degree in media and communications to hopefully become a journalist, and I want the ENTIRE CONCEIT of my degree to be about minority rights, but...I do fear being corrupted.
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I dont even know where to start, nor do I know if there is a conclusive "point" to this comment.
This video hits hard. I left a BS job, taking a big paycut, to return to a meaningful job. Here, I help veterans, so these examples you use are strikingly familiar; I hear these things every day. And I get it. There is substantial utility to these stories and examples, I promise.
My best friend makes almost twice as much money as I do. But his job is soul-crushing and meaningless. He envies that my job comes with appreciation, respect, deadlines, and purpose. But I would be lying if I said I didn’t envy the money he makes. Neither of us would be willing to sacrfice our current position, even though we desire aspects of the other's.
I don't know what else to say, but thank your for making this video. Im glad I stumbled upon it.
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i think this was the most depressing thing ive watched in a while but you said much that reverberates in my silly little brain that it doesnt know how to put into making sense words. very interesting commentary, gives one a lot to think about. a good kind of depressing. a pleasant change of pace from every more serious topic having a pleasant, uplifting, but ultimately empty call to action at the end.
though, im not entirely sure that there is nothing to defend. even if the world is fucked, its the only world i have. there is beauty to be found even in suffering. even in our dystopian, consumerist world humanity can be really cool sometimes. even if the 'zombie apocalypse' comes, i still think even the zombie warrants a continued existence. it seems scary, but i think once you've grieved your death and the inevitable slow death and decline of all things it stops hurting so much. the presence never leaves but its effect is..less . hero myths are just the stage of denial . avoiding the problem because it seems like too much to confront, so you never learn to truly accept it as it is. of course, i'm not naive enough to think what works for me works for all people, im sure others need a grand meaning for all things and the hero myth does serve its purpose if it makes others go through this life a little happier, no matter how lifeless the world can be.
the thoughts of a person with very little experience in the world aside, very good video . i like it.
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We tend to forget, or deny, that this species of bald ape was exactly the same 300,000 years ago as it is today. They were just as clever, had similarly complex chatter, and were just as capable of conceiving and making instruments to help them do things they wanted to do.
Those "primitive" nomadic groups weren't simply wandering around randomly hoping to run across a berry patch or a lame deer before winter comes.
We are social animals. We had to be because individually, we're blind, deaf, have almost no sense of smell, are weak, slow, and have almost no weapons. In short, the prototypical "rugged individualist" went extinct long before we came along.
One of the biggest problems I've found in teaching people about this is in decoupling the concepts of money and currency. In the people I've known, they are the same thing.
Didn't you do this topic before?
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