recently I've been having this reoccurring Nightmare and always starts the same way I wake up and I force myself up without knowing why it's still dark outside I missed the bus and I have to wait for the next one the city is lifeless faces blur past me Shadows of people I don't recognize I see the workplace as the Sun appears and my heart aches I walk through the office Corridor I feel a bit lightheaded at my desk time slows down as I'm crunching in meaningless data the seconds ticking louder in my head on my lunch
break I go for a walk trying to clear my head trying to make sense of it all eventually the horror ends with one weight slay bus ride home and as I go to bed every part of me is drained but the exhaustion isn't physical at something deeper a kind of numbness staring at the ceiling and then I realize this isn't a dream this is my life [Music] now let's address the question on everyone's mind why am I still making these wage slave videos why can't I just suck it up and accept reality for what it
is yes I have to work 8 hours per day 5 days per week yes this is normal yes this is how Society works I'm going to tell you why because it's wrong because people need to wake up from The Matrix this is the brutal truth about work we're trapped in this nightmare that never ends and for what your company will tell you hey we're family but the moment the profit tip they will drop you in 2023 Google fired 21,000 people and Facebook or meta fired 12,000 people now they called it layoffs as it's not personal
but come on there's a technical difference sure whether or not they're fired for personal reasons or let go due to economical downsizing but for us the employees the outcome is the same since HR actually picks who gets to go and who gets to stay I would argue that it's actually very personal as they're letting go of people whose performance isn't as good as the rest also is the layoffs because they couldn't afford to pay them really like Google and Facebook made several billions in net profit last year everyone just accepts this reality sure most people
think it's shitty of these big Corp corporations but everyone still sort of accepts it well I don't and that's why I never ever trust companies this is why I make these videos about weight slavery it's time to say no it's time to say enough is enough maybe the commercial landscape is what it is and Society needs these layoffs but stop pretending stop the gimmick slogans like it's all about the people it's all about the planet no no you're nothing more than an asset to them [Music] it's time to flip the script and regain control companies
are making record profits they throw parties and upgrade Furnitures but when was the last time you saw your paycheck reflect those profits don't waste your loyalty to a company that will fire you for profit any day it's better to invest in yourself not in them don't live to work work to live prioritize your energy and time for what really matters you see the truth is that your boss's dream car is paid for by the hours you traded for a paycheck and every hour you sell to someone else is an hour you could be investing in
yourself remember the biggest mistake you can make is thinking that a job is a security true security is only in your own hands the 40-hour work week wasn't created to give us freedom it was a system to squeeze productivity are we just cogs in a machine and a financial system it's designed to keep people desperate and trapped in order to work living as a wade slave has completely drained my spirit I've mentioned it in several videos but I refuse to give up because we deserve more than this endless cycle and I'm going to do something
about it and I'm going to shout from the top of my lungs until they hear us I'm going to cry kick scream until the system collapses the haters are going to call me a whiner but I don't care because I see the truth the biggest chains in life are the ones you can't see like a steady job that steals your freedom don't confuse a paycheck with a purpose trading hours for dollars isn't wealth it's a slow surrender of your life's potential and if you don't build your own dreams someone will hire you to build theirs
the salary is the drug they give you to forget your dreams the weekend is just not enough especially if you're too tired to enjoy life after work and vacation that's a joke it's time to rethink your priorities there is a quiet realization that most people will eventually experience that you have worked more days than you have actually lived there is a silent Warrior within me that refuses to go quietly I'm going to escape weight slavery or die [Music] trying in my final year at the University I was writing my Master's the pieces and this one
day something happened I fell into a deep depression and I was very unexpected nothing really happened or didn't happen I just woke up one morning and I lost the will to I got into therapy and medication and I talked to my therapist for years about this life just felt meaningless and I never finished the thesis and therefore I never got my Master's Degree today I'm in a very different situation despite my problem with wage slavery I'm actually very happy I'm healthy I have a beautiful person to share my life with and I have a passion
for making videos so when I look at that period of my life I have a very different perspective so here's what I think happened the purpose of my life at that point was to get a degree from the University I got my bachelor's degree so I really didn't need the master's degree I didn't have a purpose anymore because I never had a vision of anything beyond getting a degree in a sense I felt my life was over so when it came to my career I just saw the very early in my life I understood the
brutal truth about jobs I was really smart back then compared to the imbecile I am today because trust me way stavy has made me stupid and slow I never fell for the career path I just wanted that degree and and partially to please my parents and especially my grandfather I wanted them to be proud of me but deep down inside I knew that once I start working my life would be over and here we are I've arrived I'm standing at the beach confused and more lost than ever what Shores are these what world what kingdom
is this when I started my first office job I was very proud of the achievement of getting there but I wasn't really happy at all I remember my first meeting thinking this is the first of thousands of meetings I remember getting home exhausted and feeling used I would have cried but the anti-depressants kept the tears on the inside now the reason I come down so hard on the 925 rat race is because my mind is wired to question the societal Norm I've always been that way but there is something very PE iiar about wage slavery
and the more I talk about it the more people I encounter that have the same thoughts about it when you think about work itself it's a it's a very pointless exercise I mean you work to live in order to work it's a paradoxical situation where people just do it not because they love it they do it because it's expected of them they do it because they are programmed to do the work without questioning it but if you really think about it it doesn't make sense you work so you can have have money to buy food
to keep working working is the purpose your entire existence on this Earth is to work for some greedy company now you know I see these posters at work it's all about the people it's all about the planets it's it always was if the posters were honest they would say it's all about the money it's all about the profit we don't care about you money gives people purpose it's a brutal realization that most people actually know but don't want to say out loud for me personally I've always questioned parents teachers and bosses whenever I hear just
do it I cannot let that slide I need to know why so here is an example that will rub some people the wrong way the planet is dying we have to save the environment from climate change everybody knows this you know this Greta knows this can I say something here why is it so important to save the planet or just organic matter like moss on a rock flying around in space what's so special about us anyway but no we should not question the status quo and we should just move on without asking questions this is
ridiculous this just don't ask don't tell and as I look through my own content my own I noticed that there is a red thread that unfolds a much bigger question it's a question that demands an answer that unfortunately can never be answered when people at work discuss the weather or Sports I pondered this difficult philosophical question about purpose and then it Dawns upon me the brutal truth about wage slavery is that we work because we have no purpose it's all just a twisted version of throwing cards in a hat it's pointless but it keeps us
busy keeping yourself busy so you never have to stare into the bottom of the Abyss because doing that you will come to realize there's nothing staring back as always thank you for listening do me a favor and tap that like button to share your support subscribe if you're interested in more content like this until next time stay hungry Relentless and strong in your journey of escaping wage slavery bye oh you're still here oh that's right it's the behind the scenes Vlog this is more for the subscribers where I share personal stuff so if you're interested
stick around so this is my last video of 2024 and I'm going to explain more about it in a minute or two but first a couple of other things as I look back on 2024 I'm truly proud of most of the videos that I made so I'm grateful for everyone watched them and I actually also feel gratitude towards YouTube for making it possible for someone like me to share content online now yes they do have their ad Revenue agenda but without them you would not be watching this video my purpose on this Earth seems to
be to suffer and to share my thoughts about it and maybe that's like the quintessential definition of the word artist I don't know I've always found the word artist a bit pretentious I prefer the term creative in the beginning of 2024 I made a video called something like 2024 is the last year as a wage slave unfortunately I'm just not there yet oh and recently something very interesting happened to me I fell in love it's true I got my first drone I got it mostly to get more interesting shots for my videos but it turns
out that it's just so much fun to fly around and film things from above you get a very different perspective so I'm just having a lot of fun also I'm not if I should mention this but I also got the latest iPhone and I actually made a review of it I'll put a link in the video description and Below it's a good iPhone like it's got really good cameras it was super expensive and there is a part of me that feels a bit disgusted uh with the feeling of money just being wasted but like I
said in a previous video of mine being cheap is not a way to escape wage slavery figuring out how to earn more money is the right path because there is a limit on how financially Frugal you can be but when it comes to making money there is no limit so like I said this is my final video for 2024 um for some of the newer subscribers you may not know it but I always take a break from social media from November to December it's a way for me to get perspective on things and to get
new inspiration for next year you see YouTube is a very creative outlet for me it's a passion but it's like a fire yes it keeps me warm and happy but if I'm not careful I could get burned there is something I also want to mention before next year starts you know I struggle as a content creator for two reasons first one being the split Road Paradox you say there are these two paths in front of me one is about creativity and being authentic and the other one is about making money and it's kind of difficult
to talk about but I'm trying to be as authentic as I can be and I still don't know how I'm going to figure out this dilemma as some of my favorite authentic YouTubers have crossed to the money-making side of YouTube you know selling courses and books like I don't have a problem with it you know there's nothing wrong with people trying to make a living there is just something icky about the commercial side that I can't quite put my finger on the second thing I wanted to talk about is my content itself so this year
I feel I've made a lot of videos about wage slavery and there is this voice in my head that tells me that I should just keep on doing it because this is what my audience likes and while I do care about this topic a lot I'm not certain that I want to spend the rest of my life making videos about wage slavery you know since the passing of my dad it's been an emotional roller coaster for me like initially I wasn't shocked then came the realization that I'll never see him again and then you know
his death reminded me what matters in life and the truth is that as a content creator I have been obsessed with numbers statistics like views and subscribers comments likes it happens to most YouTubers but de has a way of reminding you that none of that really matters very few things actually matter while it might sound depressing at first it is actually about capturing the essence of everything we experience in life to find a purpose you can live with so for example if I died today I'd like to think that my life mattered and so it's
important to find a purpose Worth Dying For if you will now that's how I feel about my content I want it to matter but honestly what's the point of living if you don't see value in it and so I want to go where inspiration takes me and hopefully that will bring some value to people's lives that's all I want like I said I don't want to sound pretentious but I do need to take some time to be distant from content creation you see my life has been a bit of a struggle since I was a
small boy and maybe it's the same for everyone you know that's just life they say but I can only share my experience I've struggled with depression and existential anxiety and while I often feel I got it under control I often feel that I was put on this Earth to struggle and more than anything I struggle with this inner voice that has tried to put me down whenever I do something or buy something or try something you know you might know this voice this is the voice that tells you that you don't deserve to be happy
this is the voice that tempts you to do bad things some people call it the devil other people say that is what makes us human now as a content creator I struggle with being original because the voice tells me that I'm not good enough that it's better to just copy successful strategies you know and so I fell into this trap of trying to do whatever seems to work instead of doing my own thing but this one day I slipped up I made a video called wage slavery broke my spirit where I was very honest about
how I feel about work and you related to that you related to the authenticity of that video so thank you for it for reminding me not to listen to that voice but now I find myself asking how many wage slavery is bad videos can I make because the voice tells me that I need to keep going I was lucky stumbling onto this wage slavery topic but these wage slavery videos they're not really about work itself there is something deeper beneath the surface it's about living a life to be proud proud of about following your dreams
and inspiration and if you don't have that you might as well give your life away to some greedy company after all if you don't have the soul of a dreamer how can work be Soul crushing and so this is where my inner voice goes tell what the hell are you doing you see this psychological battle is never truly won you know I always hear that voice I will always hear it but I I think I just need to calm down take my time and I'll be able to be all I need to be which is
authentic true to myself and hopefully proud of who I am my plan for next year was to create a second Channel where I could be myself because the voice told me to not risk alienating my subscribers on this channel so it's safer to start a second Channel but I come to realize that I don't want to hide my authentic side from the world and if that means losing subscribers so be it you know it's not about the number it's about making content from your heart now no offense to Mr beast and has billions of subscribers
but I can't believe that he's actually proud of the videos where he locks people in rooms just to get millions of views it's just a twisted version of big brother or maybe it is something that he's proud of I I don't know I just know that I don't want to do whatever it takes to get views and clicks and if making authentic videos means that I only reach 10 people that's still genuine because it comes from the heart that it mean something it matters to me it's it's worth it now I get this authentic inspiration
from time to time but being human means that I also slip up so I'm hoping that you will let me know when that happens tell me the truth even if it hurts my feelings Tom that clickbait title was beneath you Tom that last video you're better than this finally I just want to say that I'm so grateful for my wife my dog and my cat life would be unbearable without them we still go out on walks every Saturday with the dog we us usually go to the beach we walk for a while then we have
some coffee and this is the highlight of my weeks it's not enough but it reminds me what I want and why I need to escape the 9 to5 so until next year stay safe and healthy and truly from the bottom of my heart I wish you all a great Christmas holiday when you get there see you around bye [Music]
