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TheMercilessEye
October 24, 2023 at 4:21 pm
One of the most neglected inevitabilities of living, is the eventual need for care. Caregivers receive, almost inconceivably, even less regard than teachers.
Светлан Рендаков
October 24, 2023 at 5:30 pm
Yeah being a teacher is an actual job though. Caregivers don’t need to receive “regard” because they receive the benefit of having a loved one in a better condition in exchange for their labor.
L V
October 24, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Caretaking and domestic labor is a major subsidy of work that takes place out of the home which is usually paid. The former is seen as natural duty and the latter is a result of merit. More should recognize this and the implications of this on our society.
Chris Graham
October 24, 2023 at 4:25 pm
Men do this too!!! Just saying!!!
a
October 24, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Of course men do this, but statistically women do it much more throughout the world. Also in the most equal countries, women spend much more time on unpaid work in the family. They have less free time than men, but fewer paid hours.
🔴 LISA LIVE
October 24, 2023 at 4:29 pm
6:19:51 *Let’s appreciate the hard work she puts into these videos for our entertainment🧡*
Khaim Gulkovich
October 24, 2023 at 4:30 pm
Populistic demagogy…
Andrew Pyrah
October 24, 2023 at 4:32 pm
That’s like people saying being a mother is a job. Sorry but definitions are important
Not Jokic
October 24, 2023 at 4:53 pm
If you want to dedicate some of your work week to caregiving, then you should be paid less at your job.
TheMrmoc7 James
October 24, 2023 at 4:57 pm
My wife is a stay-at home mother for our 1 son. She definitely considers this real work as she regularly pays herself from my bank account.
Светлан Рендаков
October 24, 2023 at 5:14 pm
lol
YSA
October 24, 2023 at 4:59 pm
돌봄노동이 인간을 생존하게 하는 필수 업무임에도 정작 직장업무에서는 배제되었다는 것, 맞습니다!
누군가를 돌보아야 할 사정이 있다고 관리자에게 당당히 말하고 동료를 돌보는 방식으로 프레임을 지정.
한국에서 니가 연차 쓰면 내가 손해 본다는 생각이 얼마나 한치 앞도 못 내다 보는 것인가? (이거 누군가의 교묘한 선동이라 보지만)
나도 곧 그 돌봄 노동이 필요한 순간이 있는데, 이 필요를 비난하면 너도 죽고 나도 죽겠다는 것 아닌가?
많은 무급 돌봄 노동에서 얻는 기술도 업무능력에 포함시키면 경력단절이라는 말도 사라질 것
돌봄 노동이 어디에서도 얻을 수 없는 기술과 지식과 삶의 지혜를 가져다 주기 때문.
우리 이전 세대 엄마들을 보면 알죠. 인생에 늘 해답이 있었죠. 이 지혜는 무급돌봄노동이 준 인류의 생존 가능케 하는 신의 선물!
이 무급노동에 실질적인 가치와 급여를 부여해야 할 때가 왔다!
한국사람들이 늘 하는 밀. 이게 다 먹고 살려고 하는 것인데, 즉 다 가족이나 주위사람들과 함께 돌보고 돌봄을 받으려고 하는 것인데
특히 현대 한국 직장은 오히려 먹고 살기 위해 나간다면서 가장 본질적인 것을 등한시 했다!
이제 돌봄 노동이 인간 사회의 본질이고 원동력이며 인간에게 어디서도 얻을 수 없는 지식과 기술과 지혜를 얻게 해준다는 것을 깨닫고 직장업무에 포함시킬 때가 왔다!
인류를 살리는 날카롭지만 따뜻한 통찰이 넘치는 좋은 영상입니다!
srcarranza
October 24, 2023 at 5:01 pm
I was my mother’s caregiver for the last decade. In my case, it was a mistake to take on that responsibility as a ‘second job’ like it is here proposed. It should have come first and only. Now I regret it so much that I cannot live with myself, literally. I miss her so much. Caregiving has to be treated by families and society as a priority or we will lose our humanity and life will not be worth living. It shouldn’t be that hard. Goodbye now. I wish you find the right way.
Mike Hart
October 24, 2023 at 5:46 pm
It is sometimes for some people impossible to take it on as the first and only job. If you have to work at a paying job to make money to live on, you have to continute that paying job whether you are a young mother with young children or a middle aged adult with an aging parent.
srcarranza
October 24, 2023 at 6:53 pm
@Mike Hart
Providing safety and justice is the primary role of government. The most extended, costly and recurring national disaster is the caregiver crisis which at any given time amounts to 7% of GDP and hurts one in every five persons. Simply put, other than war or a pandemic, there is no greater personal, family or national disaster.
Governments have an obligation to put into effect public policies that take care of this reality, either paying a living wage to family caregivers or professionals, like the US government is pursuing or putting into place filial obligations law like Singapore has done or a good mix of the two that point towards caring for the caregiver.
This cannot be left to or relied on changing corporate culture. I don’t agree with that. This needs a change in societal culture and that can only be achieved by law. Anything else is a distraction at best or a waste of resources at worst.
Ken Otwell
October 24, 2023 at 5:04 pm
“Real work” requires an employer who has the funds to pay for the services of an employee. If a parent or loved one could afford a paid caregiver, they’d hire one. So how do we fund this need? It has to be public money.
KarMa CañQuints
October 24, 2023 at 5:08 pm
I hope some people in middle eastern countries understand this bcoz some especially who hired workers from some Asian countries. They think work is part of slavery. 😔
Jeff H
October 24, 2023 at 5:23 pm
I caregive for my mom with Parkinsons and I only get paid minimum wage 3.5 hrs a day. It’s rough..
HexerPsy
October 24, 2023 at 5:30 pm
I think the demand has always been there, but it was overlooked.
Some examples:
Teachers face growing responsibilities, get bigger classes and parents show decreasing respect towards their teachers. We need more, but those are hard to come by.
Nurses are needed. However in my country, due to night shifts, admin work and overtime, 1 in 3 nurses quits their job within 5 years after graduating. We need to retain these people somehow…
Elderly homes are increasingly strict with who they admit. Your independence must be significantly worse than it was several years back. As a result, elderly stay home or under family care longer than they should. Elderly spend shorter time in elderly care (closer to death upon entry). And the care they require is more intense, further limiting the number of available rooms.
Care at home services, are running low on personnel, but have rising number of clients (since nobody can find a spot in the elderly home). Sometimes visits are unseasonably short for the amount of care planned. Sometimes care is skipped: one wash per x number of days – sometime once a week or worse… This makes the work harder and less enjoyable, making it even harder to attract new people into the field.
The care done by relatives and friends falls in between these types of care. There are always people in between these categories that cant manage on their own and need help. Its a growing number, demand is increasing and the number of providers is decreasing. At the same time we are often unwilling to accept and invest in these rising costs.
Savanna Duplisea
October 24, 2023 at 5:33 pm
This is for EVERYONE. Structuring our eniroment and culture around those that are not full able and their caregivers is expanding everywhere from policy and design, and we’re discovering it benefits everyone. Its like making a ramp in a public place- it can benefit parents with strollers, people in wheelchairs, or someone just carrying something heavy. Whatever your lifestyle, having flexible work hours, a supportive work enviroment, and long periods you can take off for your health or urgent matter, all of these are great things to implement. You don’t have to be a caregiver now or need care in the present, but everyone will at some point need some type of care, and we can build around that reality to better it.
Gem
October 24, 2023 at 5:39 pm
One of the most exhausting but rewarding job
Ricy013
October 24, 2023 at 5:40 pm
So? Should the govermant pay an hourly rate while cooking for the family? Wake up😂 life can never work like this
emily Barrett
October 24, 2023 at 7:45 pm
That is the most uneducated comment. And you can’t spell government.
ryan schultz
October 25, 2023 at 8:43 am
What about a universal basic income that allows care workers to be financially supported
ryan schultz
October 25, 2023 at 8:45 am
Normally, when you provide economic value you get paid. Seems pretty natural to me to pay careworkers
emily Barrett
October 25, 2023 at 11:18 am
@ryan schultz there are rules where if you’re a carer for a family member you get a certain allowance but its something like £86 a week. I care for my nan who has vascular dementia, but because i also have multiple sclerosis, and was a student studying medical science at the time i started caring for her, i wasn’t entitled to any pay. It’s a very unrewarding job alot of the time because of the nature of some tasks, and the fact you get abuse sometimes. And fyi @ricy013 its not just cooking dinner. Its taking care of the whole house, washing the patient after toilet accidents, doing the washing, administering medication, going out and doing the shopping, having to deal with nasty things a loved one with dementia says.
If one worked in a care home they would get paid. Why shouldnt a family member who gives up their life to look after a loved one get paid?!
Ricy013
October 24, 2023 at 5:41 pm
Everything is a big skill today.. 🎉 Be proud, be colorfull
GymLeader Jake
October 24, 2023 at 5:46 pm
Caring for children is 1,000x more important than caring for the old.
Jorge Martinez
October 24, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Not really. Everyone is the same
GymLeader Jake
October 25, 2023 at 3:05 pm
@elchila2000 So you would just flip a coin if we had a single heart to transplant and one patient was a 24 year old med student and the other was 100 years old. Dumb
Jorge Martinez
October 25, 2023 at 4:04 pm
Todo Mundo requiere El mismo cuidado.
Jorge Martinez
October 25, 2023 at 4:07 pm
If you don’t what a caregiver is don’t comment
Brotha Buddha
October 24, 2023 at 5:53 pm
S.T.A.R. Skilled Through Alternative Routes.
Jorge Martinez
October 24, 2023 at 5:54 pm
We don’t get paid enough on the minimum wage and sometimes a little bit more when is a hard job
Man man
October 24, 2023 at 6:03 pm
This is seriously dumb, the reason caregiving isn’t paid is because someone would have to hire you. Do you really want that? To be paid and have your ‘work’s governed by some random guy who gets more money than you? It doesn’t matter about ethics at this point, this wouldn’t work, period.
Hi it's me
October 25, 2023 at 1:46 am
That’s not what she’s proposing.
OverAnalyst
October 24, 2023 at 6:16 pm
I’ve been a trauma patient & caregiver (dual-military vet). Caregiving is harder. I get it’s tough from a policy perspective! But for those saying whatever, it’s like being a parent: ok, so maternity/family leave is a thing. For a reason. And the time-intensive part here has no time limits, esp for elderly care; there’re no public school for Alzheimer’s parents. Instead of a child finally sleeping thru the night & developing independence, a degenerative illness will only get worse, indefinitely. It can be a soul crushing amt of work & should be respected. Like parenthood should! (That’s before one even touches “choice” issues, which is too messy to try here.)
cybersekkin
October 24, 2023 at 7:22 pm
I’ve seen this pop up over and over. Even after meetings are pushed all over you can even see one persons caregiving mean three other people have to attend meetings well outside their woirking hours. the answer is not as easy as just allow caregivers to come in when is good for them as that puts undue stresses on the rest of the team. There needs to be a give and take for this to work. The alternative is companies will give verbal support to the idea and then upset everyone on trying to fulfill them or just give up when the whole sisutaiton becomes a nighmare. Yes, caregiving requires a lot of work. In life you have to decide what is important to you and sometimes those choices could mean you give up one thing to have another, or that you have to.
scribbler60
October 24, 2023 at 8:06 pm
There once was a time,not that long ago, when TED Talks highlighted true experts in their field. Science, technology, medicine, climate, city planning, and other true experts, with published papers and peer-reviewed evidence, shared their hard-won expertise with a wider audience.
Now, apparently, anyone with an opinion can conduct a TED Talk.
IvanAndreevich
October 24, 2023 at 9:57 pm
How about not? What has allowed our rise from poverty and backwardness to all of our magnificent achievements is division of labor. You don’t come here and tell me to end the division of labor with your weak emotional argument. No thank you. If you are a highly trained professional who can create a lot of value for society, pay someone else for the care work.
If you want to do it because it matters to you on an emotional level, then lose your own pay and make your own decisions. This is a personal decision but from a macro perspective, it’s not one we should subsidize or encourage.
그래이제부터
October 24, 2023 at 10:31 pm
We know how to take care of stray dogs and stray cats, and we need someone to take care of me if I’m abandoned like a dog and a cat. The nation, society, and our thoughts should be the same. Why? Because man is the warrant of all things!
Sally Brunelle
October 24, 2023 at 11:11 pm
As a caregiver I’ve had to cut my 40 hour work week down to 30. Sometimes 25.
I’m not here to complain or to ask for compensation. More than 20% of Americans are over the age of 80. Most live in retirement homes but many live with family. Regardless of location, family involvement is key. Many states do offer compensation for care giving to help reduce the strain off of our understaffed facilities.
If you find yourself in the role of caregiver, it is crucial that your employer knows!
What a wonderful world this would be if we ALL took better care of each other!
Strawberry Dome
October 25, 2023 at 12:27 am
I am an 18 years old girl, born and raised in a patriarchy environment. I spent years feeling jealous because I have to do the chores, but my cousin did not have to. They said, “you are the girl! You have to know how to do the chores”. To the boys they said, “You don’t have to do the chores, your future wife will do it for you”. I always questioned my mirror; Why the girls have to know how to do the chores and survive on her own, but the boys only have to know how to working? This video make me relieved that I’m not the only one who think of this. If the husband can take a day free of working, why pregnant wife can’t take a day free of caregiving?
Big Ed
October 25, 2023 at 1:14 am
People should pay me to take care of my kids that I chose to have because they look like cute little copies of me.
Andrea hodson
October 25, 2023 at 5:20 am
Underpaid overworked or unpaid. None of which appeal to most workers.
Tìm Kiếm Đầu Tư
October 25, 2023 at 5:22 am
Hi❤The video is great. I really like this video. Thank you.❤❤❤
Kashif Shahzad
October 25, 2023 at 6:58 am
No, it’s not; it’s a characteristic. Every human should learn how to nurture it. The world is experiencing turbulent times with many distractions vying for our attention. It’s in moments of engaging in caregiving and other communal activities that we discover pure happiness, making life truly worthwhile. Otherwise, focusing solely on dedicated jobs can foster selfishness and neglect for everything beyond the job itself.
JIFS89
October 25, 2023 at 7:20 am
Work, sure! But not a job.
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October 29, 2023 at 5:15 pm
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Complete in Jesus with Devin and Amber
October 25, 2023 at 2:31 pm
As a disabled adult, I don’t love this video. People already don’t take us seriously about needing paid caregivers, especially family members. Paying a parent of a non-disabled child is very different than paying someone (stranger, friend, parent, spouse, etc.) to care for a permanently disabled person who will need help with almost everything for their whole life. By lumping all care together, this is why people don’t take disabled people seriously. There is regular care vs extraordinary care. It is important to make that distinction.
Lukas
October 25, 2023 at 3:40 pm
But how can these care givers survive? Is there a men involved?
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October 29, 2023 at 5:12 pm
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Ultrasonido y Medicina 24h
October 25, 2023 at 6:40 pm
Unpaid?? So a father should be paid too for being a father?? C´mon, do not have children or home or a car or any if you don´t want a responsibility. I am a doctor, father, friend, teacher, guide and much more and most of this is “unpaid” because i love my family and love to help people, but don´t say poor women are unpaid. Otherwise be single and alone for the rest of your life… even without a pet because it is not going to pay you…
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October 29, 2023 at 5:12 pm
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For An Angel
October 25, 2023 at 6:47 pm
Universal Basic Income will disproportionally benefit women because most of the unpaid work is done by them.
FreediiFree
October 26, 2023 at 5:03 am
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October 27, 2023 at 12:08 pm
I hope caregiving is appreciated and compensated as the valuable and human work it is.💙
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October 29, 2023 at 5:10 pm
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K. M. Hill
October 28, 2023 at 10:05 am
Absurd viewpoint. Familial care is not a job; it is a duty, and qute a different endeavour from professiional, qaulified healthcare. The need for unpaid familial care will last much longer than capitalism and the existence of ‘careers’.
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October 29, 2023 at 5:10 pm
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Craig Nolan
October 29, 2023 at 1:35 am
Great video. Just a note that I’m a male caring for my mother who has low mobility. Men can be carers too!