The REAL Reason No One Wants To Work Anymore

It's so obvious why no one wants to work anymore...this is why.

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00:00 Start Here
01:19 People Just Don’t Want To Be Treated Badly
02:42 People Are Sick of Being Treated Like Pieces of Data
04:11 Most Jobs Don’t Have A Clear Purpose Anymore
05:28 Hard Work Equals More Work
06:59 Employee Wages Have Stagnated, While CEOs Wages Have Skyrocketed
08:47 Everything Is Owned By Corporations Hungry For Endless Profits
10:41 Jobs Aren’t Everything

The pandemic of 2020 completely changed our attitude towards work and in the beginning it started out really positive with remote work, more employee benefits because of labor shortages, and pandemic aid gave many people money to change careers. However, more recently, our attitudes towards work has become more negative with the Great Resignation, Quiet Quitting, and companies demanding their worker back to the office. In this video, I share my opinion and give 7 reasons on why so many people don't want to work anymore.

1. People Just Don’t Want To Be Treated Badly

It's very obvious, but when you treat employees with respect and dignity, they will respect and value their jobs; however, when you treat people badly, people will despise their jobs. For so long, employees haven't felt valued, which has caused many people to not care about their jobs and not want to work. Companies, however, often do not understand this and will say that people are lazy and entitled.

2. People Are Sick of Being Treated Like Pieces of Data

In the beginning of the pandemic, the attitude towards work became more positive and one reason was because of the rise of remote work; however, one side effect of this was that companies wanted to know what their employees were doing and began to collect data on them. In theory, this was a good idea, but in practice, human beings are complex, emotional creatures that don't want to be treated like data. As data collection becomes more a part of our day to day work, people don't want to work because they don't want to be treated like pieces of data.

3. Most Jobs Don’t Have A Clear Purpose Anymore

Back in the day, the majority of jobs had a clear purpose and when people know the purpose of their job and can see the impact of it, they will enjoy their work more. Nowadays, however, society has gotten so complex to the point where the purpose of most jobs is to help companies make profit. This has caused many people to not enjoy their jobs because it seems like all they are doing is working for a paycheck.

4. Hard Work Equals More Work

We live in a dog eat dog world where oftentimes when you work hard, you are given more work. Eventually everyone learns this fact, which causes them not to want to work hard. Instead of working hard, many people will just keep their heads down and do the bare minimum. People don't want to work anymore because hard work doesn't pay off in this world.

5. Employee Wages Have Stagnated, While CEOs Wages Have Skyrocketed

In the past decades the salary of a CEO has increased drastically where in 1964, a CEO would make 20 times the amount of their employees; however, in 2021, it is now 299 times. In addition, wages haven't grown much in the past decades as from 1964 to 2018, it has only grown by 11%. Many people don't want to work anymore because we continue to see CEOs wages increase while employee wages are stagnant.

6. Everything Is Owned By Corporations Hungry For Endless Profits

We live in a society where everything is owned by large corporations that are hungry for endless profits. After living and working in a society that is all about helping corporations make larger profits, many people are fed up and do not want to work under this system.

7. Jobs Aren’t Everything

The final reason people do not want to work anymore is because people are starting to put less emphasis on their jobs and more on other things in life. From an early age we are told, "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life"; however, this often leaves people feeling empty and unsatisfied. People are starting to find satisfaction and meaning in places outside of work.

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[Nikkibee]

People don’t wanna work 40+ hours for minimal wages and no benefits. It’s that simple.

[douglasrau]

Don't have a job = can't afford housing.
Have a job = can't afford housing.
So why have a job?

[sunso]

I was suddenly laid off last year. I saved up enough money to live for about 3 years. I just went to the gym, worked on my house, read books, and volunteered at my local brewery cleaning and gather cups in exchange for beer and chat with people. I havent felt this happy and alive for almost a decade.
Then i found another full time job, well back to the grind.

[brittney]

We've completely lost sight of work life balance. Nobody gets to have a life anymore.

[Jim-kq]

When we are young, we are told that if we work hard, we will gain wealth. After some time, we realize we have been deceived and lied to.

[austinbar]

I am in my early 60s and retired at 53. Lots of people gave me pushback because they had difficulty grasping the concept of not working if you don’t have to. I looked at my life as stages. I earned everything I have now through a lot of hard work, but I owe it to myself to “stop and smell the roses” in my final stage of life. In my case I left the country after I retired and live in Latin America. It allowed me to get away from all the negative things happening in America while appreciating my new environment. I have yet to meet anyone who regrets retirement.

[bskinny]

I'm a self-employed house painter. I've blocked many numbers from clients the last 5 years.
I won't stand by customers bad attitudes anymore.
I only return calls from the good ones.

[margaretgreenwood]

Im an 81 year old Englishwoman and worked from age 16 to retirement at 65. During that time I was a secretary for many years and also had jobs as a waitress, cleaning peoples’ homes, as a youth worker for several years and my last career as an Advice Worker for 25 years in a citizens advice bureau funded by local government. I have always loved working, no matter which job I had, I always felt I was achieving something. I grew up in the London Docks where the dock workers were proud men and that is where their identity lay. I really do appreciate your arguments about work today and how disembodied it seems. No chance for creativity, no job satisfaction

[rosymylene]

The number one reason is that jobs do not pay a LIVING wage anymore.

[Abraham.Lincoln]

Dear Boss- Don’t treat your employees like 💩.

[RickTheClipper]

I am fed up working for peanuts to make a company or a billionaire richer

[doingtime]

I rejected a remote job because they install spy programs to see what you are doing. It's so disrespectful, what's wrong with just seeing the results? Isn't that what's important? People have made jobs hellish.

[KurtVogel]

The slaves are waking up and the Matrix is fearful.

[jeffs]

100% agree. Why be loyal to a job that would not be loyal to you?!

[theoriginalDAL]

As a late Boomer (don’t hate on me for that), I approve of this video. After 40+ years of being on the treadmill I see how indoctrinated I was with the entire work-and-consume lifestyle. Had I been able to see through the massive amount of Bovine Scat I was fed since childhood, I’d be happily retired by now. Oh well, that’s my fault, I accept that responsibility.

Those of you in younger generations please don’t be like me: too soon old, too late smart. Yes, we need to make money to live, but treat it wisely and use it as the precious and hard-earned commodity that it is.

[Boolai]

Bad managers, bad pay, toxic work environments. Work place bullies. Under appreciated. Better opportunities doing your own thing. So on.

[dannyboy]

I don't want to work because I'm ''only'' 32 and I'm freaking exhausted! All my life I've been told how smart I am, I was always among the best throughout school, then how come every job I've had so far was manual labour? I'm exhausted of zero upward mobility, of being told I have to ''prove myself'' to people who never intended to give me an opportunity to begin with. I'm exhausted of seeing people do f all and ignore rules with no consequences whatsoever but the one time I step an inch out of line, the whole weight of the law crashes down on me. I'm exhausted of being held accountable for things that are out of my control.

[kallistoindrani]

I work in elderly care and they start seeing us/treating us like robots. Bosses don't have respect for us.

[richardbudzic]

They make us feel like we are 'human resources'.

[barbaracampbell]

People don't want to work because they expect too much at your job