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>> “I can’t tell you how much I enjoy working in the prison factory. The other day, when I was complimented on how efficient and meticulous I was, I grasped the
by itronitron 9y ago
>> “I can’t tell you how much I enjoy working in the prison factory. The other day, when I was complimented on how efficient and meticulous I was, I grasped the joy of working. I regret that I never worked. My life would have been different."
I think this is a core human drive and it makes me wonder why so many organizations seem to be fundamentally incapable of leveraging their employees' desire to do good work, regardless of the task.
- dade_ 9y ago"Nothing is to be had for gold but mediocrity." -Arthur Schopenhauer
- mbfg 9y agoImagine as many jobs go away as technology takes over, what this mass feeling will be like.
- beautifulfreak 9y agoThis was a point made in The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Prisoners in Siberian labor camps took great pride in their brick laying. There was little else to give them any joy.
- baursak 9y agohttps://libcom.org/library/phenomenon-bullshit-jobs-david-graeber https://libcom.org/library/phenomenon-bullshit-jobs-david-gr...