PickVidsBest Labor, work & inequality Videos
The 92 Labor, work & inequality videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 6 introductory, 1 intermediate, 85 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include LastWeekTonight, TED, LibertyPen.
Adam Ruins Everything - Why You Should Tell Coworkers Your Salary
A four-minute Adam Ruins Everything segment on why employers discourage workers from sharing salaries.
Driving For Uber, Sleeping In Her Car (HBO )
A VICE News segment following Uber driver Terri White, who drives 83 miles from Stockton to San Francisco and sleeps in her car between rush hours.
What Happened When This City Banned Housing Investors
Oh The Urbanity!
The magic washing machine | Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling makes the case that the washing machine was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.
Isn't the purpose of work just making money?
A five-minute clip in which Erich Fromm asks whether the purpose of work is just making money.
Union Busting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on union busting that explains the tactics employers use and why they face few consequences.
Dr. Michio Kaku America Has A Secret Weapon
A short clip of Michio Kaku arguing that America's weak education system leaves a shortage of high-skilled tech workers, so H-1B visas bring in talent.
Rutger Bregman tells Davos to talk about tax: 'This is not rocket science'
A short Guardian clip of historian Rutger Bregman at Davos telling attendees that the real issue is tax avoidance, not philanthropy schemes.
PERM Fake Job Ads defraud Americans to secure green cards fo
A 2007 clip in which immigration attorneys describe how they help employers run classified ads designed not to find qualified American applicants, so they can secure green cards for H-1B workers.
Up in the Air (3/9) Movie CLIP - How Much Did They Pay You to Give Up on Your Dreams? (2009) HD
A clip from the film Up in the Air in which George Clooney's character fires a man and urges him to return to the dreams of his youth.
Inequality: Why are the rich getting richer?
A three-minute Positive Money UK explainer arguing that the commercial banking system, where banks create most money as debt, redistributes income from the bottom 90 percent to the top 10 percent through interest.
George Carlin - The big club
A short George Carlin routine in which he says the owners of the country run a big club and ordinary people are not in it.
I Became The World’s Richest Man For 7 Minutes
Comedy YouTuber Max Fosh stunts his way to briefly becoming the world's richest man by selling a tiny share in a company at an inflated valuation.
On Bullsh*t Jobs | David Graeber | Meaningless Jobs | Royal Society of Arts | Lecture
David Graeber's RSA lecture on bullshit jobs, expanding on his essay about why so many people do work they believe is pointless.
Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality
Thomas Sowell speaks at the Hoover Institution about economic and racial inequality and what he considers myths about poverty.
Margaret Thatcher - "They'd rather have the poor poorer."
A short clip of Margaret Thatcher in Parliament in 1990 arguing that economic reforms benefited everyone even as the rich-poor gap widened.
Bernie Sanders: "Open borders? That's a Koch brothers proposal"
A short clip of Bernie Sanders in conversation with Ezra Klein of Vox, where he rejects open borders as a proposal that serves the Koch brothers.
Cadillac ELR Coupe 2014 Commercial
A short, ironic Cadillac ELR 2014 commercial celebrating long working hours and the American dream, which has been widely mocked.
Working at Amazon Fulfillment Center - SOUTH PARK
A South Park clip in which Butters' dad takes a job at an Amazon fulfillment center to make ends meet.
Eric Dale is fired – Margin Call (2011)
A scene from the 2011 film Margin Call in which risk head Eric Dale is laid off by HR and hands a USB stick to a young analyst.