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How they had it wrong. Instead of robotics liberating mankind from bullshit jobs, we create imaginary bullshit jobs for those who aren't suffering from one. Am
by sakri 11y ago
How they had it wrong. Instead of robotics liberating mankind from bullshit jobs, we create imaginary bullshit jobs for those who aren't suffering from one. Amazing. Pretty soon people will pay for these oppportunities.
- kokey 11y agoThey will also have to borrow money to pay for these, and these loans will add up.
- redblacktree 11y agoWe'll call it "University!"
- rwmj 11y agoYou wrote what I was going to say, but better. If there is a good thing about all this, it's that the nakedness of the emperor is fully exposed here.
- pjc50 11y agoPeople have already been known to pay for internships.
- stephengillie 11y agoYour perception is that a job is somewhere you go to be productive, work, and get things done. For a lot of people, a job is - in Starbucks' marketing phrasing, a "second space" - a different physical space to occupy, and different people to interact with. A way to occupy their day. I've said it before: a large part of the reason I'm in IT, and not automotive mechanics or environmental conservationism, is because I can spend my days in temperature-controlled office buildings, instead of on the cold and muddy ground or cold and damp forests. Some people grudgingly leave their warm beds to stay in an office building in exchange for currency they can use for food and shelter. I feel as though this is a type of modern autarky, and it gets shamed by those of us whose dreams and ambitions involve building useful or cool things with available technology.
- sakri 11y agoMy perception is that a good job is one that doesn't feel like a job. I remember a French vineyard owner say : "I want to teach my children how to run this place, because then they never have to work again".
- stephengillie 11y agoYes, what denotes a good job lay in the eye of the beholder!
- existencebox 11y agoI'd take another angle to why I generally look down on "useless jobs," as just another worrying trend. As is oft cited here, we're rapidly reaching a point where the basic needs of all people could be served by a vast minority of the populous, and there is a wide array of options that can be taken to still ensure everyone can support themselves. One of these options is "useless jobs", build out the job market so that everyone can still work for their pay. As you say, your goal is to be comfortable in your other space, but in the above trend, the fact that you MUST chose the other space from within a potentially limited set, and then conform to whatever constraints it demands on you, should demonstrate why I think "useless jobs" are a worrying outcome compared to alternatives such as a global minimum wage, such that you can truly chose your other space freely, as well as what you fill the time there with. To bring this tangent back to the point, if useless jobs become the norm, and we continue a society that puts the emphasis on _jobbing_ and not enabling each person to live their life however they wish, I worry the more Utopian outcome is an impossibility.