I watched about half of it (which is all I could make time for since I have a ‘useless’ job of my own that limits my time). Maybe that wasn’t enough to understand the point, and if that’s true then my bad for posting a reactionary reply. Oops.

But, if the first half is a representative slice of the whole video, then I don’t think my response is unreasonable. To summarize, the guest runs a non-profit that aims to pay Ivy League grads who have high-prestige “bullshit” jobs to switch careers and go work for NGOs, charitable organizations, etc. (I’m actually a bit confused about this point because he says he wants to pay them, but also acknowledges multiple times that they’ll be taking a pay cut? Maybe he clears that up in the last half, I didn’t know.)

I didn’t go to an Ivy League college. I do have a soul-sucking bullshit job that I only keep because it pays my bills and allows me to support the people who depend on me. I suspect the vast, vast majority of people who interact with this content will either be in the same boat as me, or will be people of even less privilege. In either case, we’re the ones who are gonna be served this video, but we’re not the ones who would ever benefit from this plan. Do you wanna bribe Harvard grads to quit their job at McKinsey and go work for Habitat for Humanity instead? Cool. Great. But the millions of us who don’t have fancy diplomas and six-figure jobs — the people this content is served to — get to continue slaving away and dying inside a little more each day while the most privileged people in our society get to be taken care of while also being given the moral highground? Forgive me, but I don’t really see what problem this is solving. This feels like a vanity project to make rich tech bros and lawyers feel better about themselves while the system remains fundamentally broken and the same toxic incentives that created this corporate hellscape remain just as toxic and just as incentivizing as ever.

Anyway, for people like me, the moralizing title of the video is really frustrating. Yeah, I would quit if I could, man… but who’s gonna be responsible for what happens when I do? Not the guy in the video, that’s for sure.

Cool, yeah. While I’m at it, I can get rid of my useless house and stop eating all this useless food. Thank God I don’t have any useless kids — that’ll save me a ton of trouble having to get rid of them too.

Fake news, his hands are way too big

At least Jim Jones was heavily involved in charity work before the whole, uh… cult-of-personality murder-suicide stuff. Trump’s never done a charitable thing in his life.

True, but revolvers also don’t litter the ground with shell casings that could be used against you as evidence when you have to defend yourself against, just as completely random examples, a healthcare CEO or oil exec.

Back in the 90’s, I was in a very famous TEEEE-vee show…

To be fair, most Western religious traditions also treat death as taboo — they just aren’t as explicit about it as they are with sex.

Alexa, call 911. OP is having a stroke

which should web you browser use

More.

In just 10 more years, it’ll only be 40 more years!

Only ten more years, and we’ll have it!

Okay, maybe a little evil…

Oh shit, a Blame! reference in wild…

To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld: You don’t run for office with the electorate you want, you run for office with the electorate you have.

Do no harm (to quarterly earnings)

Basically just another way of saying a cubicle

bundled a game pass subscription

Most of the money MS gets from Office365 is from business users, not home users. I have a feeling that trying to sell game pass to corporate clients isn’t going to be a huge hit…

Is there any case where cynicism is helpful?

There are insufficient funds for a meaningful answer.