O FUTURO DO TRABALHO

- Since I started producing all your videos, doing all the research, researching the content of your classes too. -Adapting the texts to publication format. - Yes.

Booking all your tickets so you can travel to teach your classes I usually start working on it on Monday and stop on Saturday. Sunday is when I either collapse because I can't handle it anymore or I deliver orders for iFood. - Did you stop selling cakes?

- I had to stop. I could't manage it all, Miss Rita. - What a shame Roxelly.

Don't you go to the theater on Sunday? Don't you go out, or take some classes? - I can't.

For instance this Sunday I have to work so I can pay the bike I rented from you to go to work last Sunday. - I remember. But at least you are self-employed.

- Yeah, that's right. - It's great, an amazing legal entity for you. But look, if things are difficult for you, for me they're impossible.

What day is it today? - Wednesday. - Ok, just so you have an idea of all I have been doing, type more quietly, on Monday I had lunch with the girls from my cricket, then I rushed out of there because I was running late for my massage.

Tuesday was also crazy, just like Monday. Today, I woke up and came here. I woke up around 7:15 or 7:20 am and came over here.

So I'm exhausted. It's as if my time I can't do much with my time There is too much I have to do. - So much so that I didn't prepare a topic for today's video.

So I will just move my mouth and you dub me, okay? - Well, I think I can manage. Alright, let's start.

THE FUTURE OF WORK Well, as you have probably already seen somewhere in this screen The topic of today's video is: The Future of Work. Look, despite the conspicuous exploitation of Roxelly's labour, we start this video with a joke that isn't quite a joke. Us, working-class people, are used from early on with this reality, where work plays an integral and constitutional role in our lives.

By the way, today I will talk about the philosophical economic manuscript from 1944 by Mr Karl so grab yourself something to take notes because if someone leaves a comment on this video: "Rita, can you please write down your references? " No, angel! We show right next to me the person's face and name.

You pause the video, there is a button for that. Look, Roxelly will pause the video. Then you take notes!

Get it? On a great technology called paper and pen. So today we will talk about several books.

You know, at the start of the 20th century, 1899. . .

20. Nineteen plus one, twenty. So at the start of the 20th century, Thorstein Veblen publishes an economic theory book but specifically on a social criticism called "the leisure class".

In this book he makes a sharp critique of this old type of aristocracy and upper bourgeoisie, Who are people as those I joked about at the start of the video who have a veeery busy day. Who had lunch with with the cricket girls on Monday, then went to a massage. So Thorstein points out that this conspicuous consumption, conspicuous as in obvious, the conspicuous consumption of leisure this class has causes revolt among the other classes.

He also says that this type of rich, millionaires, would very soon disappear. I'm not saying he could see the future. [That's So Raven theme song plays] But if we press forward in the clock to the start of the of the 20th century, we are soon faced with an upper bourgeoisie class in the USA of the people in Wall Street.

These gazillionaire investors who wear suits, who wear working clothes, and who cosplay as workers. Who pretend to work so that you have a lesser sense of hate for them. Also so that you look at your entrepreneurship coach or investment coach and think: "Wow, he works so much.

" In the Rita course there is a class about labour theory. In this class we talk about capital, Mr Karl, value, price, goods, etc. To kickstart, I'll bring Mr Karl - who was still very young at the time, a heartthrob.

Put a picture of him here, Roxelly. Thank you. - in Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.

In the manuscripts, there is a marvellous idea about the double alienation of being. We, who are in the working class, produce everything that exists in the world. We work and produce what is then taken from us, so we are alienated from our production.

Our production will be circulated, sold, profitted, the more it is valued and we are paid a fraction of what we produced. And if we want to have access to what we produced we will have to pay for it. Mr Karl here points out something that shocks me the most.

That's it, that for us to constitute as human beings we must first constitute ourselves as workers. So let's go to the first citation of the video. Wow, I even materialised my laptop because this citation is long so I didn't write it down.

Come with me. "The less you eat, drink and buy books go to the theatre or to dance parties, or to a pub. The less you think, love, theorize, sing, plant, exercise, etc.

The more you will be able to save up - and the greater will be your treasure. which neither moths nor dust will devour - your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life.

The more you have, the greater is your alienated life - and the greater is the store of your estranged being. " Basically, this is what Mr Karl is telling us. The working individual, in order to configure themselves as human beings, - for example, by going to the park, have a picnic, have a dinner with friends, go see a movie, - in order to discover who we are we first need material access to our subsistence.

And this access comes through the exploitation of our labour, from the sale of our working force. That is, to be HUMAN, you need to be a WORKER first. This idea present in Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts is also present in many other works by Mr Karl and Mr Engels One of these works is The Condition of the Working Class in England.

When I made that video about rethinking prisons, I talked about this work. And the idea is that if to be a human we need to be a worker, then what happens to who's unemployed? What happens to who is marginalised, who lacks access, who lacks opportunity?

What happens is that the actual opportunities for these people to configure themselves as human beings are smaller. So what is left for them is dehumanization, is brutalization, is animalization. Then we can start thinking about Brazilian statistics.

Last year in 2019, IBGE statistics showed us that Brazil has approximately 12. 6 million unemployed people. We know that the actual number is much higher because this statistic fails to count who's living off side hustles and who is unemployed already for so long that has stopped looking for jobs.

Could it really be that we don't need more doctors, teachers, electricians? The answer is yes, we do need more. Maybe you would not need to work as many hours if there was another employee with your same function and without having to decrease your salary, that's important.

But we can discuss this in another video. There is not a shortage of things to do in Brazil. We have all this idle labour force of people who could be employed, could be working and who could be making our lives better as a collective, as a country, as identity.

But they are not. One of the reasons why - besides inflationary data - is an idea coined Mr Karl in Das Kapital called reserve army. Did you ever hear that argument that "If you are nor happy with your job, working conditions or your salary, then you can find your way out of the door and there are other 200 people who want to have your position.

"? In a society with full employment, or in a society without a reserve army this type of blackmail does not exist. And a high rate of unemployment is a reflection of this.

Unemployment is a project. Now we'll start bashing the CEO of the bank ITAÚ. Still looking at 2019, the CEO Candido Bracher - a person - gave an interview to the newspaper Folha de São Paulo where he said two statements that startled me and upset my intestines.

The first statement was that he did not see Bolsonaro's political inability as a threat to the economy. Stop everything. You didn't hear me wrong.

How funny that apparently when Dilma was president there was a threat. . .

The "political inability and inefficiency of president Dilma was taking the country towards economic ruin". Funny how by changing presidents and changing who is serving the interests of our bourgeoisie their discourse magically changes overnight. His other statement was that unemployment is not problematic or aggravating.

Because for his business, for investment banks and unproductive capital, the less people are employed, the smaller is the possibility of inflation. So in the interview he celebrates growth without impacts on inflation. It's also worth remembering that on August 1st of last year, after reaching a new record in net billing in the second trimester of the year Mr Candido Bracher, ITAÚ's CEO, starts something known as "Voluntary Termination Program" which fired an absurd number of employees in the bank.

So when we start thinking about the future of work we need to think about the past and the present, and think about things such as: If there is record profit, why is there also unemployment and firing? This is the story behind the workforce specialisation, the story behind "technology" and the wonderful productive capacity of capitalism. Technology developed and implemented.

From that point on, with less working hours you are able to produce the same amount of goods. But do we actually start working fewer hours? No.

Do we start earning more for producing more goods? No. Do we start retiring earlier since we are working the same amount of hours and producing infinitely more?

Will we have more free time to rest? Also not. Then what happens with all our labour that is alienated from technological advancements and generates a productive capitalist wonder?

Nothing. What happens is that we nowadays have the technology that could make it possible for people to no longer live in the streets, have nothing to eat, have no education. .

. . I say this in all my videos, Rita videos are all the same However, the open market comes and says: "If you can't pay for it, you have no access to it.

" Thats why we make sure to always bring up in this channel things such as class consciousness and class hatred. Because if you are not conscious about all of this and you don't have feelings towards organizing and fighting then the other class is already organized, fighting, and approving the reforms that they need. Speaking of which, now in Brazil we are in the process of approving a package of basic sanitation services as a good.

Meaning, if you can't pay for it, you won't have access to. Still on the topic of technology, I'll leave you an invitation to research Industry 4. 0 and leave google with a look of desperation on your face like the painting "The Scream".

I'd like to ask you something quickly: Could your current job be performed by a machine? If you answered "no", you belong to less than 30% to 40% of the Brazilian population. A study recommended by the journal Valor Economico in the Institute of Consultancy and Data revealed that more than half of the formal and informal jobs in Brazil, 58,1% precisely could already be automated today.

Meaning that they could be replaced by machines. Here we are talking about supermarket cashiers, store assistants, bus ticket conductors, gas station assistants. In the article where I took this data from there is an interview with Antonio Detsi one of the people responsible for the fast-food chain Bob's.

He tells us that since 2014 the chain has been implementing automation in their stores with a type of totem where the client comes, chooses their order, pay and pick up their food with the kitchen crew that can't be replaced with machines. Not YET. Very content as he explained this, he reveals to us that removing people from their workplace and their replacement with machines increased sales by 25%.

When we think about the future of work in the 21st century, and if we manage to control an environmental disaster, perhaps also the 22nd century, we can't have this scenario in mind that we finds ourselves in and walking towards. This plutocracy of oligarchy in power. Billionaires dictating that all labour force will be automated and that jobs will be removed from workers and that they will find a way to not die of hunger.

It's important to be organized, unionized, and fighting for another working reality so that this doesn't become our future. This apocalyptic type of feudalism. No.

But so that we can look at the future of work as the so called "developed nations of Europe" - that in reality turned us into colonies, exploited us, made us pay for their wars, and consume their goods - and the image they have of work. So I will start telling you about some news that circulated at the start of the year and that when I read, girl, gave me a sense of hope but you know that the hope of a poor working class person only lasts about 10 minutes. But it said the following, Sanna Marin who is the current prime minister of Finland gave a statement that Finland would start to live with 4 working days and three leisure days.

These working days would then also be reduced to 6 hours per day. In other words, she advocated that people should produce less. The famous deacceleration, that us who worry about the environment talk about so much.

So then Sanna is telling us that the working population of Finland will redefine what they understand by quality of life. They will have free time to spend with the people they like and the activities they wish to do. It is not a coincidence that I bring her up in the same video I talked about the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx.

Because look at how relevant it is. The less you go to the park, the less you exercise, the less you kiss, the less you love. .

. This is exactly what makes us one of the unhappiest generations in history. We don't have material condition, and when we do have it, then we dont have time or energy to constitute ourselves as human beings.

This statement by Sanna was given when she was the minister of transportation in Finland and now that she is Prime Minister and that this news came up now in 2020 The official Twitter of the government was quick to inform on social media that this was not really the case and that this would not happen. The commotion was such that they released an official announcement saying that this is one of the plans but there is nothing concrete being done for it to happen. Besides Sanna Marin, I want to talk about the company Microsoft in Japan of 2019, when they also proposed 4 working days per week for their employees.

Therefore giving them 5 consecutive Fridays off. As a result, the company's productivity increased by 40%. What we need to do, as the working class, is to fight so that this does not become a privilege for a minority of people whose job can't be replaced by machines.

But so that this becomes the reality of most people. We need to fight for a reform and for a future of work in which our labour serves a purpose. In which we don't have to work so much and there aren't as many unemployed people.

Instead, we need to fight so that more people have jobs, non-alienated jobs and that these jobs take us to better places and that we have free time to constitute ourselves as human beings. It's also worth revealing to you that France already succeeded to approve a reform of 35 hours of work per week and that the city of Gothenburg in Sweden already works 6 hours per day. My intention with this video is that we understand the fact that we are going through a crucial period, so much so that several authors are discussing this - Roxelly will leave a list of book recommendations here - (CHECK THE DESCRIPTION) we are going through a crucial and the decisive moment of the future of work.

And we need to fight here in the outskirts of capitalism and as a working-class, so that the future of work is more connected to emancipation instead of collective serfdom. That's it. I hope you enjoyed this video and that you join us in the fight for a better and anti-capitalist future.

Hugs and kisses, bye!