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> work is what we do for the betterment of collective This is going to be unpopular but I'll plow ahead regardless: no it isn't. Work is what we do to support
by lagadu 7y ago
> work is what we do for the betterment of collective
This is going to be unpopular but I'll plow ahead regardless: no it isn't. Work is what we do to support our expensive hobbies and because we like nice things.
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoThat too but the work itself serves the general public. The cutting edge tech is all for what? It’s for everyone to have a phone in their hands..find directions..listen to music..swipe for dates etc. today a farmer in India has a smart phone. It’s democratization of tech. The world benefits. It’s a form of service where you get paid. As opposed to being a butler for the queen of England. It’s actually a beautiful thing. I hear a lot of grudges against tech workers in Bay Area from those who aren’t..I always point out that the world is better because a hand ful of people make lives better for 8 billion by making tech accessible. Of course, there will be a cost for this. A price for this. A heavy one sometimes. But the goal is for everyone to live better. Imagine we didn’t have computers 50 years ago. How far we have come...
- SaxonRobber 7y agoSmartphone apps and social media are not pushing humanity forward. They are huge productivity drain if anything and cause more problems than they solve.
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoAre you saying the world hasn’t benefited from mobile connectivity devices and humanity being more networked than ever in the history of our planet?
- bearcobra 7y agoI think it's still too early to tell, but it's certainly not that crazy to think that on net the world hasn't benefited from humanity being more networked than ever in history.
- jfk13 7y agoIn some ways it has, but there have also been significant downsides. Whether these things have really been a net benefit to humanity (or to the world) does seem debatable, at least (in my opinion).
- a3n 7y ago> Work is what we do to support our expensive hobbies and because we like nice things. Ask the person cleaning your corporate bathrooms tonight, who doesn't work for that corporation, if that's why they're working.
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoI think the take away is that we have human beings cleaning corporate bathrooms. We should have machines and gadgets doing it.
- krapp 7y agoBut humans are cheaper, that why we don't have machines to do it.