Re:E-Commerce as a Jobs Engine? One Economist’s Unorthodox View
by a_imho on Sunday July 23, 2017 @05:05AM
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Most people in the West shouldn't need to work but instead of coming up with UBI and taxing rich shareholders more, the government prefers to invent increasingly narrow and meaningless jobs to keep the masses busy.
Reminds me of David Graeber On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. It strikes a similar chord [1]
[1]http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ (need to click 'here' to access)
Re:E-Commerce as a Jobs Engine? One Economist’s Unorthodox View
by notahacker on Sunday July 23, 2017 @06:28AM
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> the government prefers to invent increasingly narrow and meaningless jobs to keep the masses busy.
Even if one considers all public sector jobs and public sector jobs involved in areas like compliance and tax to be "narrow and meaningless", I don't think you can blame governments for the more recent growth in salespeople, management consultants, web-front-end-library-stitcher-togetherers or social media managers...
Other than that it has mostly served to give people options that they don't really need.
If technology is not freeing up people from their jobs, then I think it isn't delivering the real progress that humanity needs.
Personally, I feel that the jobs have gotten worse especially in the last 5 years. I used to be an all rounder software engineer and these days I find myself more and more being either a front-end developer or a back end developer depending on the company... And the job is becoming increasingly tedious; that's why I change jobs every 6 to 12 months. I get paid more but the job gets more boring.
Most people in the West shouldn't need to work but instead of coming up with UBI and taxing rich shareholders more, the government prefers to invent increasingly narrow and meaningless jobs to keep the masses busy.
I think that's why Bitcoin is so valuable, everything in our system has become so extremely inefficient and low in value that now the only thing required for something to actually have value is the fact that it can get people's attention.
If something can get people's attention and keep them busy, then wealthy people and big companies will poor some of their infinite money in it.