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I wrote about this a bit on my blog [1] but to add to this idea, > Maybe prostitution to the owners will be the only available job. Pre industrial revolution,
by Wilsoniumite 2y ago
I wrote about this a bit on my blog [1] but to add to this idea,
> Maybe prostitution to the owners will be the only available job.
Pre industrial revolution, labor was in a sense cheaper than it was during the industrial revolution, and one genuinely interesting set of professions that existed then was house servants. Butlers, maids, cooks, under butlers and so on. It would not be inconceivable to see the return of these kinds of jobs? Ones where the value of human labor is so low that working for someone with wealth in their own home is common?
[1] https://wilsoniumite.com/2024/09/09/how-do-we-fix-it/ https://wilsoniumite.com/2024/09/09/how-do-we-fix-it/
- scrappyjoe 2y agoI suppose that house servants performed two functions - menial tasks, and emotional labour. Competence at both was essential. A house servant who was great at making beds but super annoying or had no emotional intelligence probably didn't last very long. The menial tasks component will probably be automated away. Which leaves the emotional labour. Put another way, our job will be to be liked by the people with power. Liked enough to be kept around. The only job left in the future is that of the pet.
- 9rx 2y ago> our job will be to be liked by the people with power. So, for most people, no change from the job they are already doing?
- scrappyjoe 2y agoI approve of this implication
- ashoeafoot 2y agoThey were appliances. a kitchenaid at the farm of my great uncle did one job.. that of a kitchenaid. whisk and kneed all day+ gossip
- scrappyjoe 2y agoI'm not sure if you are confirming or rebutting my argument. In the future, no whisking. Gossip better be saucy if you want to stick around.
- franktankbank 2y agoMaids already are common in barely upper middle class homes. They don't live there but.