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> but it is not at all clear that it needs to be always the same guy grinding, while next door someone else is dying of boredom and watching netflix until he p
by FanaHOVA 4y ago
> but it is not at all clear that it needs to be always the same guy grinding, while next door someone else is dying of boredom and watching netflix until he passes out
Unemployment is 3.5%
- serverholic 4y agoI’m of the opinion that a large chunk of jobs are made up, pointless BS. They exist because jobs have to exist. Because our society requires us to do SOMETHING so we make up large social structures to prove we have the right to exist.
- whstl 4y agoThis is not an unpopular opinion and I've also been thinking about it. A lot of people theorize about what's gonna happen if/when we reach very high levels of automation. Who's gonna consume things after the robots take most jobs? UBI is often the answer. I'm pro-UBI, but I'm also of the opinion that we should prepare/self-correct by collectively working much much less.
- hutzlibu 4y ago"by collectively working much much less. " Or we can change our definition of what work is. There is work and there are (money paying) jobs. The world is full of problems and full of work. Problems on the planet, problems on the mind, problems on the hearts. And the universe is big and waiting, so I am really not afraid, that robots will steal me a purpose in life.
- jonsen 4y agoThe percentage of employed unproductive is way higher.
- FanaHOVA 4y agoSurely, but what makes you think they are unhappy with their unproductivity? The OP makes it sound like there's a ton of people who aren't working who'd love to give you free time and do the work for you, but that's clearly not the case.
- hutzlibu 4y agoHave you spoken to some people who do a bullshit job and asked, if they are happy? I have met quite some and zero who were happy with it.