-VoxIf we suddenly eliminated teachers or garbage collectors or construction workers or law enforcement or whatever, it would really matter. We’d notice the absence. But if bullshit jobs go away, we’re no worse off.
...you... — I like sushi
...very few have anything to do with the production and distribution of sushi, iPhones, or fancy sneakers.
But what happened was that, although the part of work that is actually productive has been reduced, the amount of unproductive work has increased to an extraordinary degree; to the point were many, many jobs do not produce anything. — Banno
But what happened was that, although the part of work that is actually productive has been reduced, the amount of unproductive work has increased to an extraordinary degree; to the point were many, many jobs do not produce anything. — Banno
Parkinson's Law — Bitter Crank
Pfhorrest
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The big hold-up is that the rich aren’t going to pay the workers the same money for “less work” = fewer hours, so if the work can get done in fewer hours, the workers have to convince the rich that they still need to put in as many hours in order to justify continuing to get the same pay (and therefore deserving the same access to the things they need to live).
The problem, as always, is capitalism. — Pfhorrest
FI you can work from home, theres a good chance yours is a bullshit job. — Banno
many jobs do not produce anything — Banno
I'm having trouble thinking of a job that doesn't produce something of some kind. I think you're exaggerating so I have to wonder why you're exaggerating. — ZzzoneiroCosm
that doesn't produce any kind of a "thing" — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Yes. Humans have created bounded institutions to serve as rude speed bumps to reduce excessive boundless thinking, reacting, behaving, etc. One sees this in action all the time, where some spark plug in the organization keeps firing off one bright idea after another. Pretty soon the spark plug is managed, i.e., told to shut the fuck up. Or else! — Bitter Crank
It's a form of suffering imposed on spark plugs that had not consented to be born in the first place, and having been born, have to work to keep body and soul together--though why anyone does that since we didn't want the deal in the first place, is a mystery. — Bitter Crank
The solution will involve getting rid of the "Protestant work ethic"...getting rid of the notion that one must earn one's living. — Frank Apisa
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