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Well, I'd have to say that a good job is one which pays you a lot to do comparatively little. But you know, that's because unlike most people giving career adv
by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
Well, I'd have to say that a good job is one which pays you a lot to do comparatively little. But you know, that's because unlike most people giving career advice, I actually expect workers to have a sense of self-interest and economic rationality rather than investing their entire emotional well-being and identity in their job.
> I certainly don't expect that we will ever reach a future in which jobs will be all about deep internal fulfillment, with a few giggles and some comradeship tossed in. As my wife and I remind each other when one of us has an especially tough day at the office, there's a reason they call it "work," which is closely related to the reason that you get paid for doing it.
Good. So let's just get rid of work to the greatest degree we can. What is even the point of increasing productivity if it won't buy us more stuff for less work?
- DaveWalk 11y agoI often think about this Russelian argument about work, specifically via In Praise of Idleness.[1] Sometimes to me it feels dirty to contemplate doing nothing, being idle, without direction as a lifestyle choice. To your point, what can be done? On one hand, some argue that we've come a long way from Russel's era, and that work and life is much better off and closer to his philosophical goal than we credit. On the other hand, this discussion clearly shows a desire to look for the essense of what make a job "good." [1]http://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/?single=1 http://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/?si...
- pasquinelli 11y agoi wonder what a policy platform would look like if it had as its first premise that work is undesirable.