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Isn't the real development that automation and efficiency improvements move more and more people into bullshit jobs? So instead of becoming entirely obsolete, w
by timkam 5y ago
Isn't the real development that automation and efficiency improvements move more and more people into bullshit jobs? So instead of becoming entirely obsolete, we continue working, not knowing what value we contribute, if any.
That's why my intuition (and fear) is that in such BS jobs, the rewards will become more and more skewed. So instead of a 9-5 corporate BS job, one gets a highly competitive BS job (evaluated using metrics that are poor predictors and assessors of individual quality of work) in a high-pressure environment.
- 6510 5y agoAnd if we ever manage to overcome that we will not have jobs at all and our mind will be full of things not relating to what sustains humanity. The longer we then embrace unproductivity the more horrific a single incident will be.