So how do you propose that would (pun coincidental) work? Who’d build and maintain roads and railways, who’d build houses and install plumbing, who’d build cars, robots and other goods, who’d grow produce and who’d transport it to the cities where people live? Who would do all the work?
I don’t have an entire solution for it, and for a while some work would obviously be necessary. But it’s important to have a goal so we work toward it instead of just working forever.
I share David Graeber of the opinion that we could eliminate a third of jobs - the Bullshit Jobs - immediately, and with a small increase in our standard of living. And I think that if someone can automate their job they should be given their salary in perpetuity, because now people don’t have to do this one thing.
For me, antiwork is less a clear political goal than it is an ethos. Find ways to eliminate drudgery so all of us everywhere can retire and live comfortably.
So how do you propose that would (pun coincidental) work? Who’d build and maintain roads and railways, who’d build houses and install plumbing, who’d build cars, robots and other goods, who’d grow produce and who’d transport it to the cities where people live? Who would do all the work?
I don’t have an entire solution for it, and for a while some work would obviously be necessary. But it’s important to have a goal so we work toward it instead of just working forever.
I share David Graeber of the opinion that we could eliminate a third of jobs - the Bullshit Jobs - immediately, and with a small increase in our standard of living. And I think that if someone can automate their job they should be given their salary in perpetuity, because now people don’t have to do this one thing.
For me, antiwork is less a clear political goal than it is an ethos. Find ways to eliminate drudgery so all of us everywhere can retire and live comfortably.