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I said this a few times here. Tech is never to make the life easier for the worker. It is to make the worker more productive and product more competitive. Movi
by zkmon 9mo ago
I said this a few times here. Tech is never to make the life easier for the worker. It is to make the worker more productive and product more competitive.
Moving from horses to cars did not give you more free time. Moving from telephone to smartphone did not give more fishing time. You just became more mobile, more productive and more reachable.
- xnx 9mo agoHow we use efficiency is a choice. It's possible to work a lot less if you accept quality of life from an older era (no phone, Netflix, etc.)
- zkmon 9mo agoIt's not a choice. For example, Windows XP is no longer a choice, because the context around it made it unsafe now, though it didn't change. Life style from an older era is no longer the norm, which means your relative life quality degrades automatically and it actually becomes unsafe.
- SoftTalker 9mo agoWhen I retire I plan to have no phone, no computer, and no TV. These are by far the biggest time sucks in my life and I want to see what I can do without their distractions. I might keep a tablet or old phone with no service so that I can still do email.
- zkmon 9mo agoIt depends on the place where you go to live, and what it expects from you. Some people tried that a bit and they had to retreat back to the usual connected life. What happens is, that old non-digital disconnected world is no longer there waiting for you. It may pretend to be the old world you desired, but it is looking at you and judging you. You become an animal in a zoo, instead of an anonymous part of the old-time world.
- AstroBen 9mo agoI think you're way over estimating the cost of a phone and Netflix. Even the latest iPhone pro max is going to cost you an amortized ~$20 a month or less. That's completely dwarfed by my housing, food, utility and other unavoidable expenses Oh how I'd love to just use an old android with graphene os and work half the time. Unfortunately the math doesn't work
- iuufuri 9mo agoIf it was truly unavoidable to pay as much as you probably pay for housing, food, and utility, wouldn’t a lot of people be dead? On the other hand an iPhone is an iPhone anywhere in the world, and sometimes multiple times annual salary.
- johnnyanmac 9mo ago>It's possible to work a lot less if you accept quality of life from an older era I can throw away all my worldly possessions and post up in a cardboard box. My old bosses would still probably expect me to respond at 8pm to a message. Giving me a company phone if necessary. It's very well supported that efficiencies have gone up in the workforce over the decades, but hours worked have also increased. We're being squeezed.