Good: pointing out that the 5 day work week sucks
Bad: his entire plan sucks. Having 2 seperate days off means that there are no days for yourself, only constant work or rest
CGP Gray remains utterly trapped in liberalism
“Here’s my episode about how to more efficiently board passengers on a plane, cause this is the most pressing problems we have in society now.”
I can’t watch that channel anymore, it’s like listening to any of the other white tech bro’s in media discuss life inside their bubble.
Yeah right he’s a smart guy, used to like his videos, but fuck normalising plane travel, the 40-hour neolib work-week and overconsumption in general
Love to never be able to leave my city for an overnight trip…
Here’s an idea. How about we keep Sat and Sun, but then also take Wednesday. While we’re at it, let’s chop those 8 hour days down to 6 hour days. And let’s pay people the same (more, ideally) annually.
That is, if a workers’ revolt isn’t a possibility.
This dumbass thinks split weekends aren’t a thing. Motherfucker for half the service industry, our days off are whatever boss man feels like giving us that week. Half the time I get Wednesday and Friday off. It’s mentally fucking exhausting. I’m always a day away from having to go back to work.
Eat shit CGP Grey, and maybe think about getting a real fucking job before you tell us how split weekends would make us more complacent to be robbed.
This fool must not have any friends or social life either. The two day weekend should be a 3 day weekend.
Yeah, like, why would you want to split up the weekend? It’s such a weird idea, having one day off doesn’t give you enough time to do anything, it only gives you time to rest a little bit. But forget about taking a trip, or meeting with friends, or having a party, or even idk getting drunk and falling into a coma for the next day.
I like when he goes “this schedule won’t work for everyone but that’s okay. It’ll actually make my life easier when I have the day off but you all work”. No wonder reddit loves this dude.
To get a little controversial, this also extends into how Covid-19 has turned into bourgeois privilege. My friends were at a party and advised by contact tracers to quarantine for 14 days. When you’re living paycheck-to-paycheck, taking time off work isn’t going to cover income +tips. So I didn’t feel it was my place to judge them. (This was months ago, she turned out not to have Covid.)
Same bourgeois privilege with Andrew Yang’s proposed 4-day work week. You think field, service, or factory workers will be granted that extra day off? Nah, this is PMC poppycock.
It’ll actually make my life easier when I have the day off but you all work
It’s this casual disdain for humanity that shows where extreme introversion can lead you where you start thinking the presence of other people is an abrasion to your quality of life and they have to be culled and managed with half-baked neoliberal concessions. Sometimes it’s good to be around other people and in touch with society.
pretty much ye. I remember him using the “but the royals produce so much tourism money for the UK”-argument like it isn’t dwarfed by France’s tourist income - with their well-dead royals and all.
No it’s worse than that, it’s because they “own” a bunch of property that is entirely managed by the state and generates a shitton of revenue, which the state gets in exchange for all their royal privileges. So in the liberal mind, this is the same as the royal family generating all that revenue, since they can’t imagine a world in which we both stopped giving them special treatment and kept the money.
CGP Grey being accosted by gangs: “Paying protection money is good, because its cheaper than the damage they would do to my store. There is no alternative, im glad i picked the right choice”
I don’t understand this argument. Like, is there someone who’s like “I can’t wait to visit the UK so that I can be in the same city as some rich old hag and the pedos in her family”? Is there someone who’d say “I was planning to go to the UK but now they got rid of the monarchy so fuck it”? Well I’m assuming there’s at least 5 people like that but I doubt they are very important for the tourist industry.
Yeah this feels like tech bro nonsense. Just take Wednesday off and keep the weekend. So it’s 2 work 1 off 2 work 2 off.
Checkmate libs.
