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A dull, boring job beats the hell out of no job at all.

by cubano 12y ago

nostromo 12y ago
No job is the goal. No money is the problem.
- HeyLaughingBoy 12y ago
  I doubt that to be the case. Many (most?) people are lost without a job. Witness the many retirees that get part time jobs because they can't stand sitting around all day. Some people derive meaning from their work and are lost without it.
  - phkahler 12y ago
    >> Witness the many retirees that get part time jobs because they can't stand sitting around all day. Hobbies are what they need. But after a life of working some can't trasition. I once heard that life expectancy drops 2 years for every year after XX that you retire. IIRC XX was like 55 or 60 but its a fuzzy memory. Of course thats an average.
  - crdoconnor 12y ago
    >I doubt that to be the case. Many (most?) people are lost without a job. Witness the many retirees that get part time jobs because they can't stand sitting around all day. Witness the many retirees that get part time jobs because they can't survive on the income they have without them.
- borkabrak 12y ago
  Sorry for what amounts to a trivial comment, but I would love to see that on a t-shirt.
  - TeMPOraL 12y ago
    I agree. I think I'm gonna order myself one, to continue the tradition of printing out things from Internet on t-shirts. My last one[0] gets quite a lot of questions from people. [0] - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/216352/moloch-rendered.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/216352/moloch-rendered.p...
    - walterbell 12y ago
      do explain :) or point out the origin.
      - TeMPOraL 12y ago
        It's from this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ Long but a very good read, and very relevant in the context of this discussion. The quote itself is a mix of a poem ("They broke their backs lifting Moloch to heaven") and Bostrom's last book ("lousy Disneyland with no children"). It refers to the scenario when our economy/incentives system automates away all humans and we're left with a glorious economical machine with no humans inside, running without a purpose - like a fully automated, self-sufficient Disneyland that is never visited by any children.
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A dull, boring job beats the hell out of no job at all.

by cubano 12y ago

A dull, boring job beats the hell out of no job at all.

nostromo 12y ago

No job is the goal. No money is the problem.

HeyLaughingBoy 12y ago
I doubt that to be the case. Many (most?) people are lost without a job. Witness the many retirees that get part time jobs because they can't stand sitting around all day. Some people derive meaning from their work and are lost without it.
- phkahler 12y ago
  >> Witness the many retirees that get part time jobs because they can't stand sitting around all day. Hobbies are what they need. But after a life of working some can't trasition. I once heard that life expectancy drops 2 years for every year after XX that you retire. IIRC XX was like 55 or 60 but its a fuzzy memory. Of course thats an average.
- crdoconnor 12y ago
  >I doubt that to be the case. Many (most?) people are lost without a job. Witness the many retirees that get part time jobs because they can't stand sitting around all day. Witness the many retirees that get part time jobs because they can't survive on the income they have without them.
borkabrak 12y ago
Sorry for what amounts to a trivial comment, but I would love to see that on a t-shirt.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  I agree. I think I'm gonna order myself one, to continue the tradition of printing out things from Internet on t-shirts. My last one[0] gets quite a lot of questions from people. [0] - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/216352/moloch-rendered.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/216352/moloch-rendered.p...
  - walterbell 12y ago
    do explain :) or point out the origin.
    - TeMPOraL 12y ago
      It's from this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ Long but a very good read, and very relevant in the context of this discussion. The quote itself is a mix of a poem ("They broke their backs lifting Moloch to heaven") and Bostrom's last book ("lousy Disneyland with no children"). It refers to the scenario when our economy/incentives system automates away all humans and we're left with a glorious economical machine with no humans inside, running without a purpose - like a fully automated, self-sufficient Disneyland that is never visited by any children.
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