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
"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
Yeah I mean most people can't afford it so it's not normal for them but they see that it is the norm for long distance travel, true, but what I meant was it shouldn't be even more normalised as in more used and accepted
It's super weird how his voting system videos (which are good, btw) frame it as the queen choosing a new voting system.
He is a typical techbro, but with a little bit more introspection than most techbros. Most of his videos present a theoretical/technological solution to a systemic problem.
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.
"Extreme introvert" sounds more like a future mass murderer than "loner" tbh...
Hey now, I'm a total extrovert but a loner. Sucks to get older as I drift further left but all my old friends drift right. And a lot of younger people are immediately weirded out when an old person tries to talk to them, so I try to stick to my cohort, but they're all managing jobs, mortgages, and children. We're all becoming atomized.
Thank God I'm a Zoomer. My friends will never get mortgages and children
Nothing wrong with preferring your own company, but there are people that extrapolate that preference into viewing humanity as nothing but mindless automatons to be sated and managed. CGP Grey probably doesn't think literally in those terms but isolating yourself can lead to this kind of neoliberal thinking. Plus it's a good idea to get out of the house and try to make acquaintances with people with similar interests.
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.
That is, if a workers’ revolt isn’t a possibility.
Honestly, the revolt seems more likely than shortening the work week nowadays, at least in the USA.
How about we keep Sat and Sun, but then also take Wednesday.
This is where I thought the video was going to go, logically - I did a double take when I saw Saturday disappear on the graphic. I suppose I should have expected it from OP's title.
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.
Its actually good when people have nothing in common. I actually love working during my friends' days off, so convenient
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.
It was pro-royalty. He argued that britain profits off the crown lands the monarchy leases, while shaun just says "take the crown lands too, they didnt earn it" I bet Mr. Grey literally didn't consider this argument thanks to his lib-brain
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.
I clicked on the video hoping that was the plan, very disappointing
He has a point like "ask your boss what he thinks about this" as if workers have any say in
their schedulesanything they do
I actually do work basically his schedule with my day off being Monday and Thursday and it sucks
I bet he thought he was a genius when he "invented" this schedule
17 year old libertarians going to state college for computer science.
What if we work just three days and that's enough to live your fucking live?
For all these guys jack themselves off over science and data they all mysteriously seem to forget how productivity has skyrocketed so much we could probably cut down to 2 or 3 day long work weeks (or maybe even less) and still be able to provide enough for everyone.
No, he was a teacher before, and now a youtube edutainment grifter.
Just checked a few of his videos out, got some real LessWrong rationalist vibes. Yeah, not wasting my time with that shit
When I saw this video, I thought he was going to conclude by advocating for a 4 day work week. I was most disappointed.
lol i dont get this video at all. "2 days off is bad cause it makes it feel like only 1 day off, so make all days off just one day off so it feels like you have no days off" ???
I guess his idea is that 2 days off feel like one only when they arrive after 5 days of continuous work. After only 2/3 work days, you can enjoy your 1 day off much more efficiently because you do not need to rest as much.
Literally anyone who's worked split weekends on a 5-8s schedule fucking hate it. The only thing that makes a split weekend remotely appetizing is doing a 4 day 10 hour workweek where you keep your weekends and split your 4-10s with a day off in between. And even then that's rough because 4-10s also fucking suck.
The guy who uploaded a hugely viewed piece of pro-monarchist propaganda has shitty takes? NO
Thats why i think hes the perfect example of liberalism. Hes a smart guy, but his limited mindset holds him back from seeing the big picture and coming up with any meaningful solutions
Jesus, I knew his thinking was limited but... "Technology put horses completely out of a job, so this idea can be directly applied to humans." Like, I'm pretty sure to write that section, you have to be repeatedly hitting yourself in the head with a baseball bat to keep the idea of "society functions the way that it does because of decisions humans have made about how to interact with each other, and under a different system of human interactions, society would function in a different, better way" from entering your thoughts and getting in the way of your youtube video
Hes informative with a lot of his videos, he just lacks any imagination
But he reaches dumbass conclusions and has a dumb ideology.
So basically the same thing as any other dumbass like Boogie. You can have all the factoids and research in the world and still be a complete dumbass who thinks the British Royal family is good.
I forget the exact numbers, but if workers kept the productivity gains from the last 50 years instead of the capitalists, we'd have something like 50% less hours worked and 50% higher pay.
