Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "Companies Announce Why They Don't Want YOU Working For Them Anymore..." video.

At least you get to retire. In Australia, anyone born after 1975 will basically work till they die as the retirement age keeps getting pushed up 5yrs or 10yrs depending on which party is in power. What annoys me is that women get to retire 15yrs before men - what sexist BS - it should be the same for men and women. Oh yeah, anyone born after 1975 will also likely never see their retirement money (Superannuation) as they'd have to otherwise qualify for a pension and then their super would be made available as if it were a pension. Note that Superannuation is a decent chunk of what would otherwise be your wage - its literally your money but the govt want to take it and use it because "there's better things to spend it on than holding it as superannuation". Also, said Superannuation is capped at $1.5 million for anyone born after 1975 - simply put either due to the normal mandatory contributions and/or as a result of inflation, once that amount is reached the money that would otherwise go to your Superannuation goes directly to 'General Revenues' for the govt to waste how they want - you're not allowed to keep it as your wage.
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@ianxyoutube Rubbish. Minimum wage means nothing as it hasn't been a livable wage for anyone since 1998. You really sound like an employer who wants the equivalent of a highly qualified engineer with decades of experience who's wage is $250,000 but you want them to work for $45,000. Simply put that's what most jobs are after, they want the world but refuse to pay accordingly. I don't know anyone who'd work for less than the industry rates yet every job listing is well below the industry rates. The reality is people know what wages should be (yeah everyone talks about wages these days) and many can see better options abroad. You claim to have lived in a dozen countries and reckon they're all the same - clearly they were all high tax, high regulation countries. There's plenty of countries with low or no tax and fair regulations where its easy to make heaps of money. You're saying everyone is whinging simply for pointing out truths yet you expect them to stay and work themselves to death for nothing. Are you worried about losing govt handouts when the taxpayers leave?
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@ianxyoutube Its got nothing to do with being entitled. Its called a wage that reflects your qualifications and experience if that's what the job requires -which most actually do. Only fools work a job for less than the industry average rate for that type and level of job. Its simple, they want skills, then they need to offer a fair rate - otherwise they won't get the skills made available. Good luck starting "at the bottom" - clearly you no longer understand how the world works. The days of being the janitor and "working your way up" are long gone. Laws, regulations, the legal requirement for qualifications and vast experience have made that old way impossible. No one is "learning on the job", they are required to be qualified, experienced, professionally licenced and insured. That requires a heap of time, effort and money, thus the wage needs to enable and reflect that. No one expects to be fresh out of uni and be paid the wage of a senior engineer, they expect the industry average entry wage of $64,000 (BEng(Mech) - theory/design/scientific) or $80,000 (AdvDip EngTech(Mech) - practial side of things/CNC operation, etc.) and to build from there with time and experience. Yet companies want to pay less than that, knowing full well that anything less is effectively slave labour and actually illegal. The only place where the old "work up from the bottom" system still exists is some parts of the USA and the entire 3rd world. You can thank all the "won't someone think of the children" and "everything in life must be 100% safe" people for the excessive over regulation and excessively expensive professional licencing, insurance and over-the-top experience requirements that are required in basically 90% of industries these days. Here's a fun fact about wages in the EU - they're significantly higher than in the UK and the cost of living is much lower than in the UK.
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Simple - take away the govt welfare and they'll be either stealing to survive or they'll starve to death. Australia is horribly over taxed because its a 80% welfare state. Taxpayers are sick of being robbed of their hard earned money just for it to be given to the bludgers, the illegal immigrants and wasted on stupid unnecessary govt projects or "foreign aid". Australia forgets that this whole "pay your fair share" isn't an endless money pit, that people are sick of it and leaving in droves - why do you think the govt have limited the movement of money out of Australia to $40,000 per year? Because a lot of people are moving from Australia.
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But its not just wages - many of us are sick to death of always having to jump through new hoops, "refresher" courses, new courses, redo work experience because its never "enough", just to do what we're qualified in. I for one am over it all. Many of these illegal immigrants are happy to work for nothing and to break the laws because they're criminals - they rock up to the country illegally, are 99% of the time violent and think they're entitled to everything and that they matter more than locals. How many of us who were born in the west are criminals? Very few because we were taught to always "be good, don't break the law", etc. This is why so many waste their time, their weekends and their money that would otherwise be savings, just to hoop jump and forever do these stupid pointless courses and "refresher" training that the regime made mandatory, just to stay in work. Its honestly not worth it anymore, yet they wonder why we refuse to work for peanuts.
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