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I think the intelligentsia do better when they have some manual labor in their lives too. I posit that the gig economy is just a modern take on classism and in
by postmeta 12y ago
I think the intelligentsia do better when they have some manual labor in their lives too. I posit that the gig economy is just a modern take on classism and indentured servitude. We would be better served to improve robotics, automation and efficiency rather than grow a servant class (again).
- ForHackernews 12y agoAmen. America would be a better country if even richies had to scrub a toilet now and then (or alternatively, if robots also scrubbed poor peoples' toilets for them). We could use a good dose of humility.
- zem 12y agowhenever i read articles like this, i can't help but think how much beneficial pressure a basic income would exert on a system like this. when no one has to do your unpleasant/tedious tasks because it's that or starve, there's suddenly an incentive for those jobs to pay much more, or be automated as efficiently as possible. i can see a post-basic-income equivalent of instacart, for example, being the one person who goes out and does grocery shopping for an entire building, but gets a lot of their other chores done for them as a quid pro quo.
- Dirlewanger 12y agoThe parallels between the gig economy and the increasing specialization in the First Industrial Revolution are sickening, and it's only going to get worse.