I like this term.... Bullshit Jobs (Am I doing one? ^_^ Are you???) strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ (some excerpts) Ever had the feeling that your job might be made up? That the world would keep on turning if you weren’t doing that thing you do 9-5? ... In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour work week. There’s every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn’t happen. Instead, technology has been marshaled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless. Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. ... The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger ....And, on the other hand, the feeling that work is a moral value in itself, and that anyone not willing to submit themselves to some kind of intense work discipline for most of their waking hours deserves nothing, is extraordinarily convenient for them.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 07:55:09 +0000
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