Posted: May 26, 2019 12:42 pm
There are multiple threads intertwined in the conversation so maybe I should break it down.
1. Jobs may be menial but it doesn’t mean they aren’t worth doing as a human being if you are getting paid to do so especially if they are a means to an end and not a means in and of themselves. I’ve worked at so many jobs and different kinds of jobs. I have found that experience formative and informative while at the time I may not have seen it. Could be a good topic for a thread.
2. Automation of menial tasks to “free up” humans for more worthy pursuits. There is so much value judgement loaded into this statement that I think it is where things started to go off the rails. Who decides what a worthy pursuit is? Why should you get paid by someone else for something you deem worthy of your time? Which leads to...
3. Post work society and Universal Basic Income. It’ll be a long time before we see any of this implemented as the powers that be love their wage slaves. UBI is a great ideal and I support it, but Capitalism needs a rework in its current form before anything moves towards that. I’m more pragmatic in that sense.
1. Jobs may be menial but it doesn’t mean they aren’t worth doing as a human being if you are getting paid to do so especially if they are a means to an end and not a means in and of themselves. I’ve worked at so many jobs and different kinds of jobs. I have found that experience formative and informative while at the time I may not have seen it. Could be a good topic for a thread.
2. Automation of menial tasks to “free up” humans for more worthy pursuits. There is so much value judgement loaded into this statement that I think it is where things started to go off the rails. Who decides what a worthy pursuit is? Why should you get paid by someone else for something you deem worthy of your time? Which leads to...
3. Post work society and Universal Basic Income. It’ll be a long time before we see any of this implemented as the powers that be love their wage slaves. UBI is a great ideal and I support it, but Capitalism needs a rework in its current form before anything moves towards that. I’m more pragmatic in that sense.