If you’re obsessing over work-life balance, your problem isn’t the hours—it’s the job, says Bupa’s CEO. And some of the world’s most powerful people agree.
Yeah, nobody wants to do those jobs, but we all rely on people doing them, the obvious answer would be to automate the jobs people don’t want to do. Instead you see modern capitalists automating away the jobs people do want to do, like white collar work.
Yes that sounds more fulfilling than working in a coal mine, obviously most jobs are bullshit. Recently I’ve been wondering wtf is going to happen with all those skyscrapers once AI takes every ones white collar job (if it even can) one of the main reason of trying to get people back into the office was that commercial property owners.
I’m obviously aware that our economy needs to fundamentally change.
Did I say that? I’d say socialism isn’t attainable without some kind of civil war. Also there are lots of different ways a society can be built and organised and how it interacts with technology.
Who says you need to organise a society in a way that needs toilet cleaners, and who says cleaning toilets is such a God awful job that nobody would do it. I clean my toilet at home and have cleaned toilets at work. Who says cleaning a bathroom isn’t something that every one in a firm can be involved in?
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
No. What I’m saying is that I haven’t seen it work in reality. I can imagine a society where it might work. I can imagine anything. That doesn’t mean it’s attainable.
Yeah, I’m sure those workers in the slaughterhouses and coal mines will be happy to work there once they’re un-alienated.
Yeah, nobody wants to do those jobs, but we all rely on people doing them, the obvious answer would be to automate the jobs people don’t want to do. Instead you see modern capitalists automating away the jobs people do want to do, like white collar work.
People don’t want white collar jobs because the work is fulfilling. They want them because the jobs aren’t physically demanding and they pay well.
Yes that sounds more fulfilling than working in a coal mine, obviously most jobs are bullshit. Recently I’ve been wondering wtf is going to happen with all those skyscrapers once AI takes every ones white collar job (if it even can) one of the main reason of trying to get people back into the office was that commercial property owners.
I’m obviously aware that our economy needs to fundamentally change.
So socialism isn’t obtainable with current technology?
Did I say that? I’d say socialism isn’t attainable without some kind of civil war. Also there are lots of different ways a society can be built and organised and how it interacts with technology.
And who’s going to clean the toilets?
Who says you need to organise a society in a way that needs toilet cleaners, and who says cleaning toilets is such a God awful job that nobody would do it. I clean my toilet at home and have cleaned toilets at work. Who says cleaning a bathroom isn’t something that every one in a firm can be involved in?
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
Yeah, that’s totally how it works in real life.
What? You think there is no way that we could organise a society that doesn’t require a permanent underclass to clean up your shits?
No. What I’m saying is that I haven’t seen it work in reality. I can imagine a society where it might work. I can imagine anything. That doesn’t mean it’s attainable.