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Yeah, I guess I'm thinking: although we have the internet (neat!), most of western society is still organized around getting educated, getting a job and working
by turnsout 3y ago
Yeah, I guess I'm thinking: although we have the internet (neat!), most of western society is still organized around getting educated, getting a job and working for a living. It was not always this way, and if the OP was correct, we might expect that 100 years of explosive growth would have dramatically reshaped the structure of society. Basically, it hasn't. In 1923, you might have supported your family by working in a factory putting buttons on coats. Today, you might work in an office putting buttons on webpages.
We have not descended back into feudalism; technology hasn't eliminated the need to work; socialism never took off. Nothing has fundamentally changed.
- stanski 3y agoInteresting that you are comparing a 1923 factory job to one in web development. It's a very delightful stretch of the imagination to put those two in the same sentence.
- turnsout 3y agoAs someone who has done both parts assembly and web dev, I assure you they are not worlds apart.
- ben_w 3y agoI've also done both. Factory (making HVAC) had a truck-sized door open to the elements at all times. And workplace health and safety has changed a lot since 1923, like you're no longer supposed to use bare hands when threading synthetic wool through a mix of acid and formaldehyde: https://youtu.be/O4pVny7NV8E https://youtu.be/O4pVny7NV8E