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If it cost $150K to replace a $50K/year truck driver then VCs would fund it. They'll then sell the solution to the publicly traded companies. > We are very goo
by Atheros 9y ago
If it cost $150K to replace a $50K/year truck driver then VCs would fund it. They'll then sell the solution to the publicly traded companies.
> We are very good at creating bullshit jobs[1] to fill the gradual innovative automation.
Midnight pizza deliverymen and administrators who decide how to spend resources are not bullshit jobs. They are both helpful and useful.
> The entire global movement towards isolationist nationalism and totalitarianism is centralized on the obsolescence of people and the rise of bullshit work. People feel abandoned, unfulfilled, or forgotten.
Your post doesn't make sense. The people doing the "bullshit work" aren't the ones feeling abandoned and unfulfilled. The ones promoting isolationism and nationalism are the ones lamenting the loss of their coal mining and steel production jobs, for example, which employ workers who are confident that what they do means something. Perhaps you mean that they lament the loss of these jobs? That would make sense but it doesn't seem to be very highly connected to the "bullshit jobs" argument- only the loss of satisfying jobs.
- LoonyBalloony 9y ago> Midnight pizza deliverymen and administrators who decide how to spend resources are not bullshit jobs. They are both helpful and useful. I appreciate the recognition as a pizza deliveryman. It's actually my dream job. It took me a decade of searching for work that made me happy to find it, and I was as surprised with were I found it as you (and my friends and family) are. Every day its like I'm food Santa Claus bringing joy and happiness to the whole city. Every day is food Christmas. Everyone is always so pumped to see me when I show up, and that pumps me up. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Every other job I had I had this sense of dread going to work. Hating being there, hating a large portion of my life and wishing for my life to go faster. Granted I'm still a corporate wage slave, don't have health insurance/care, and prison is my retirement plan (healthcare/housing/food all free, and its not like the old folks home lets you leave whenever you want when you're old and senile anyways). But at least I can be a happy pizza wage slave.