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    1 year ago

    “…an economy based on hobbies…”

    The new jobs you mentioned, social media managers and animators are unnecessary bullshit jobs. To the point they’re as good as hobbies. They’re trivial, and there’s no reason for those jobs to be compulsory or high stress at all. Our treatment of those kinds of jobs is ridiculous.

    It’s time for UBI, a decent baseline, and then good compensation for actual important work.

    People like yourself are responsible for the destruction of our life support system for trivial reasons.

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      The new jobs you mentioned, social media managers and animators are unnecessary bullshit jobs.

      That’s not up to you to decide. Your personal tastes on what a “real job” has no bearing on whether or not it is a job. There’s clearly a demand for it, there are people who get paid for doing it, and there are people specializing in it. It’s an actual job.

      They’re trivial

      Social media managers are basically the new generation of PR. They advertise, spread awareness, and do community outreach. These core responsibilities have been a part of jobs for a very long time, it’s just this job is adapted to a new medium where people gather.

      there’s no reason for those jobs to be compulsory or high stress at all. Our treatment of those kinds of jobs is ridiculous.

      If you want to argue for better working conditions, protections, and rights then I would actually agree with you. But this brainless idea that jobs aren’t necessary or that there will be a point where they’re all going away is stupid. Societies can only function when their members contribute, and the current wave of automation is NOT going to put everybody out of work. Old jobs will automated away, new jobs will be created, and people will adapt to the advancing economy. This is the same it has been for the past automation waves. The idea that automation will do all the work and people have nothing to do anymore is literally nothing more than a pop culture sci-fi idea.

      It’s time for UBI, a decent baseline, and then good compensation for actual important work.

      I’m not opposed to a UBI or better compensation. But this boomer mentality of “real jobs” is as myopic as it is ignorant.

      People like yourself are responsible for the destruction of our life support system for trivial reasons.

      I’m not responsible for shit. I’m merely pointing out that you’re delusional fantasies about what automation and the economy don’t actually reflect reality.