Hi, Mike Rowe the Corporate Hoe here, with a very "Dirty

>>82554047
we should make a N.E.E.T pledge

>>82554072
>the NEET pledge:
>be as much of a useless piece of shit on other people's dime as possible

Pretty sure most of the posters here have signed that one already.

>>82553161
Mike is a very, very dirty guy!

>>82553161
Look at those tiny girl hands

As a rich media guy of course he'd think that, it's the fact regular proles actually slave their lives away chasing this ideal of "hard honest worker" that's astonishing.

>>82554072
How about a common sense pledge, e.g. I actually see work not as an ideal but as mundane exchange of labour and wage in order to pay for consumer goods, and that unless I'm a fucking idiot I'll want to get the best deal possible always and to increase my means of bargain?

>>82553161
I thought of Mike Rowe when my mom forced me to clean my room recently. I even started blasting the Faith No More Song from the show but got yelled at

>>82555517
>I see work as mundane exchange of labour and wage in order to pay for consumer goods
That sounds really fucking depressing

>>82555549
It sounds lucid. What's depressing is to see someone lose track of that and deluding himself into thinking that working 10 hours a day under shitty conditions for a wage that remains stagnant makes him a spartan or the embodiment of le #hardworker values he saw on TV.

>>82555531
kek

How many GBP was that worth?

>>82555613
Some people actually enjoy working you know. It provides meaning to their lives. Doing a good job reflects back on them as a worker. It's not all about the fucking wages.

>>82555714

Aristotle said some people were born to be slaves, so perhaps he was right

>>82555714
>Some people actually enjoy working you know.
The people you work for probably enjoy their job as well, do you think they're usually deliberately giving up luxuries for your well-being? Do you think shareholders are forfeting their profits for you? Where is their S.W.E.A.T pledge? Where's their ascetic, puritan ideal?

I love what I do for work, but you're fucking crazy if you think I'll ever stop asking for higher wages, better conditions, shorter working hours and so on. Both on a political and personal scale.

>It provides meaning to their lives
Oh boy and you thought what I said sounds depressing.

>Doing a good job reflects back on them as a worker.
Doing a good job reflects on them as a worker, doing a good job for a good wage and a good deal reflects on them as sane people. Of course that's not always easy to find, but at least organize to demand for it. If you see any worth in what you do increase what you do it for.

>It's not all about the fucking wages.
Then do it for free you self-emasculating moron.

>>82555733
Actually, anon, not being a slave is the biggest slavery of all, because you're not fulfilling your potential.

>>82555733
>hurr slave
What's better than doing something you like for a living? You do something you don't like for a living and have to get payed to be able to do the things you like. If anything you're more of a slave than me. Unless you're NEET which just makes you a parasite.

>>82555907
>What's better than doing something you like for a living?
Doing it for a good pay. If you actually internalize work as some happy exercise in self-expression and self-improvement instead of a service made for a pay, then holy shit I have no words for you. You're the sort of citizen governments and corporations dream of.

>You do something you don't like for a living and have to get payed to be able to do the things you like.
So you perceive work as "doing things you like" in the way you think the things we PAY for are "doing things you like"? You think a eight hour-shift is like, I don't know, going to a bar?

>>82555887
I'm pretty sure if you look 'slavery' up in the dictionary you wont find "Not fulfilling your potential" as one of the definitions

>>82555863
Man there's a lot of #8 going on in this post. You definitely have not signed Based Mike's pledge.

>>82556045

Mike's pledge sounds like some corporate propaganda created to shame plebs for complaining about their working conditions.

Meanwhile Mike Row is a communications major and theater guy that pretends to be salt of the earth and pays lip service to plebs on TV for a few days before going back to live in his Hollywood mansion.

If you really believe this shit you're the kind of idiot corporate America wants to make more of. It's fine to take pride in your work, but this is verging on some literal "Freedom is Slavery" doublethink shit.

>>82555549
Yeah, that's what real life is like. You'll find out when you're older

>>82555863
>>82555978
Stop dissecting my posts you fucking autist. I am perfectly capable of following the trail of the conversation without you slicing it up into pieces.

So you get more pay. Then what? You get to consume more shit you don't need? A nicer looking car? A bigger house? That's all bullshit, at best it provides you with the illusion of happiness. The truth is once you have the basic needs covered there is no more ladder to climb. You're done. Get married, have kids, grow old, die. If you want to experience real progression move to Alaska and struggle to survive like those living below zero people.

>>82556150
>Mike's pledge sounds like some corporate propaganda created to shame plebs for complaining about their working conditions.

Because that's exactly what it is. I don't get why the pledge isn't more transparent to most people. A lot of Americans have just swallowed whole the corporate kool-aid.

>>82556159
>what is mazlow's hierarchy

>>82556159
You've never worked a day in your life, have you

This guy shilled for fucking Walmart. He is obviously on the corporations' side.

>>82556192
Something that has been experimentally proven wrong?

>>82556150
Just because the corporation you work for benefits from it doesn't mean anything is taken away from you.

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>>82553161
Motherfucker is wearing makeup in this pic and he wants us to deadend wagecuck jobs?

>>82553161
>I believe
reads like a cult pledge

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>>82553161
>proud to be a prole
wagecucks are pathetic

>>82556159
>dude we don't NEED money, we don't need quality of life, we only need to work harder and harder for nothing! THIS is happiness!

I'm done with you, honestly. I think if the government actually tried to brainwash someone into becoming the most submissive working individual in the world they still wouldn't get such results.

>>82556259
This oughta be good. Go on...

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>America is THIS Classcucked
Fuckin hell guys calm it down, I thought we were bad.

>>82556345
For some reason for American "libertarians" being a slave to a private corporation is seen as freedom. As long as a literal government entity is not involved its okay be cucked by the "free market."

>>82553161
>Hey Mr. farmer, give me some food
>okay but you gotta give me something in return
> but I don't waaannnnnaaaaaaaaa

>Hey Mr. carpenter, build me a house
>okay but you gotta give me something in return
> but I don't waaannnnnaaaaaaaaa

>>82556440
Whom are you quoting?

>>82555714
It appears someone has finally found a way to properly articulate what the sucking cock sounds like.

>>82556295
Good job misunderstanding him, faggot. Slaves and people on the lower end of the caste system are the backbone of society. That janitor that cleans up after you, well you need him, because he does the job that YOU nor anyone else wants to do. That same janitor isn't too smart to move on up on the job ladder. Cleaning up after people is all he can do. So he's perfectly fit where he needs to be, this is what Aristotle was trying to say.

>>82556275

If the corporation is suppressing wages, disposing of people before they get retirement benefits, raping pensions, et cetera, then they are definitely taking away from you. And it is always in a corporation's interest to try and get away with doing these things when they can, because these things lead to a bigger bottom line for them.

Believing companies care about you is naive. The only reason they might is because you've got something they can't find anywhere else for cheaper. THAT'S IT.

>>82556540
And it's fucking autistic as a response to "some people actually enjoy their work".

>All these good goy faggots

Jesus, you people must either be shills, or the most worthless apes on the fucking planet.
You shame great men who actually put forth effort to make us more than just animals and you just go right back to cucking it up for big government and big corpa.
I hope you fags die alone and empty.

>>82556627
I agree, people who would sign that pledge and take it seriously are scum of the earth ruining society. No dignity or self-respect in them at all. Pure slave morality/mentality.

>>82556576

And saying "some people actually enjoy their work" is an empty truism in response to the shit conditions workers put up with. If you think the answer to abuse of labor is "suck it up and take pride in your slavery" then you're probably meant to be a slave.

>>82556627
>it's an 'anon can't be fucked responding to anything specific but has to inject himself into the thread for attention so he makes a generalisation without replying to anyone to avoid having to contend any actual point' episode

>>82556717
Obviously the faggots who think we shouldn't have wages because the enjoyment is merely in having the job itself, which is pure and utter bullshit because 99% of people fucking hate working but do it because they don't want to hang out on street corners selling ass or begging for change.
And a lot of these same fucks are always the ones shitting on NEETS for being "leeches" and are opposed to raising the minimum wage/a unversal basic income for when robots put the majority of people out of work.

>>82553161
Whoever believes there is no such thing as a bad job has never broken a sweat working in their life.

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>>82556378
You are getting the booterang!

>>82556440
I don't get it.

>>82553161
How the fuck are Americans okay with this blatant corporate propaganda?

>>82557588
Because their entire culture has been meticulously crafted from the top down to make people idolise their oppressors. Temporarily embarrassed millionaires, tipping culture so businesses don't have to pay minimum wage, passionately defending the "freedom" to pay 14 times more for healthcare, all that.

>>82557797
don't forget the ardent vilification of any kind of social service including healthcare under the guise that soft socialism is just a step away from communism, even though a litany of countries who have these services have a much better standard of care and quality of life

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>>82555887
>ACTUALLY, if you're not a slave you're a slave!
okay, bud

ITT: People who don't understand the point Mike Rowe was trying to make in his show

>>82558759
Care to enlighten us?

>>82558797
Mike Rowe never pretended to be a tradesman or blue-collar. He went to different "dirty jobs" and attempted to do them, often badly, to promote the people who do the kind of jobs that are hard, dirty and need doing. His goal was to raise awareness of the jobs being done by people in American life who never get any exposure in the world but can make good money and used his considerable charm and charisma to do it.

>>82556823
Explain why NEETs and old people/pensioners are some of the most depressed and lonely people in western society if having no job to go to is so much fun

>I just sit at home all day doing fuck all never talking to anyone never doing anything productive but hey at least I'm not a slave to big corp right guys?

>>82555907

But being a successful parasite is true freedom, if being in a basement is your desire. You can't apply your values and desires on to everyone. We don't all want the same thing in the same manner.

What a crock of shit that (((pledge)) is. Would have to be a good goy to fall for that garbage.

You see, /tv, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't even care.

It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and my company ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's another thing, I have eight different bosses right now.

Eight, /tv. So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, /tv, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

>>82553161
No thanks.

*goes back to bed*