Re:What I Learned From Making Hot Sauce at Scale in China
by ethbro on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:39AM
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Or, you could simply pay everyone a stipend and then drug them into barely functional stupors for 10 hours a day.
Same result.
The missed point in "someone spending time on a meaningless job promotes social stability" is that you're forcing (via money and requiring same for sustenance) an individual to spend most of their life in a meaningless way in order to survive.
Is it a solution to resolving social unrest? Yes.
But let's not kid ourselves about what's actually being done.
* To say nothing of the argument that by artificially depressing wages you make your economy dependent on manual labor, limiting re-investment in automation, thereby eventually dooming yourself when other countries have cheaper labor / cost-effective automation
Same result.
The missed point in "someone spending time on a meaningless job promotes social stability" is that you're forcing (via money and requiring same for sustenance) an individual to spend most of their life in a meaningless way in order to survive.
Is it a solution to resolving social unrest? Yes.
But let's not kid ourselves about what's actually being done.
* To say nothing of the argument that by artificially depressing wages you make your economy dependent on manual labor, limiting re-investment in automation, thereby eventually dooming yourself when other countries have cheaper labor / cost-effective automation