It’s almost as if we don’t need this many workers but capitalism provides no other way for people to feed themselves, so we end up making bullshit jobs to keep

It’s almost as if we don’t need this many workers but capitalism provides no other way for people to feed themselves, so we end up making bullshit jobs to keep people alive. If jobs were a thing that not everyone had to do, and it drew in passionate people who really just want to do that work, not only would we have more efficiency and creativity. We’d also have more job satisfaction and probably even faster absolute progress. This situation is only going to get worse. Our economic system is very sticky and the expectation of everyone has to work makes people “feel good”.