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The signs of the post information revolution world. Most work is automated, even the work of automators. There are simply no more good honest jobs. The competit
by pacala 12y ago
The signs of the post information revolution world. Most work is automated, even the work of automators. There are simply no more good honest jobs. The competition for honest jobs is so fierce, the market has driven the price of these jobs into the ground.
But the automated system keeps spinning! There is wealth to spread around. There is a make believe economy of paper pushers and loud talkers, who promote each other into cushy positions. Nobody dares to speak out. We're all the emperor, and we're all naked.
Welcome to the brave new world.
- auxym 12y agoExcept administration is what should be mostly automated. Or at least, with computers, it should take far less people than when secretaries were banging on typewriters and financialists and accountants were sliding slide rules. I can't see research and teaching become automated.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoIt's funny that it's the "good honest" jobs that get automated, and people are pushed toward unproductive wasting of resources. I wonder if ten years from now, more than half of the working-age people will be employed either in administration or advertising...
- sdenton4 12y agocf David Graeber's 'Bullshit Jobs' essay: http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/