I honestly have no idea what the solution is. To me the issue is that with technology where it is, only about 20% of us actually have to do any work to keep all the wheels turning and provide for everyone. So far, in the western world, the solution has been to occupy people with increasingly-bullshit jobs (and, for some reason, not giving a lot of people who do the actual work enough to live on), but as technology keeps getting more and more powerful we’re more and more being faced with the limits of “you have to work to live” as a way to set things up.
The solution to both bullshit jobs and no life could have been to downscale work time not amount of people. If 20% of people is enough to do the job, maybe it’s better to keep everyone but let them work only 20% of time?
That won’t pass the shareholders’ vote, of course, because optimization must only mean “money optimization”
I honestly have no idea what the solution is. To me the issue is that with technology where it is, only about 20% of us actually have to do any work to keep all the wheels turning and provide for everyone. So far, in the western world, the solution has been to occupy people with increasingly-bullshit jobs (and, for some reason, not giving a lot of people who do the actual work enough to live on), but as technology keeps getting more and more powerful we’re more and more being faced with the limits of “you have to work to live” as a way to set things up.
The solution to both bullshit jobs and no life could have been to downscale work time not amount of people. If 20% of people is enough to do the job, maybe it’s better to keep everyone but let them work only 20% of time?
That won’t pass the shareholders’ vote, of course, because optimization must only mean “money optimization”