I was thinking about this yesterday when i walked past a bloke at the airport trying to sell wine to a disinterested crowd. It seemed so meaningless and such a waste. No doubt he could do just about anything. But our social structures and economy have people doing absolute shit jobs just to get by. And by get by I mean just get by. You know, were used to thinking of the Soviet Union as an economy where they had an ideology of full employment and they had to make up jobs for people that were completely unnecessary and pointless; youd go to a cashier and one gives you a ticket and another does something else and another something else – they were constantly making up these pointless jobs. Its understandable that this would happen in an economy that is based on the principle of work as a value unto itself and full employment and so forth and so on. But in a capitalist society, paying somebody to do nothing is the very last thing youd expect a firm to do, but in fact they do and often you can observe it....
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 06:23:56 +0000
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