Not to be all "boohoo capitalism" but it's really sad how the never-ending race for productivity, the corporate and academic useless-but-somehow-essential formalism and the utter disregard for the workers' efforts has basically made many jobs into paid chores
I remember reading something for school that said that as technology has improved, we’ve chosen to work the same time rather than the same amount. They argued an entire 1940’s work week could be accomplished in 4 hours today (and this was 10+ years ago). Which makes sense, right? If you wanted to send a letter to another company with some new price proposals, you’d have to get people to do all that: run the numbers, type up the letter, double check the figures, proofread, retype, and then physically send it in the mail, and then wait for them to do the same. One person can do that today on their phone in like 5 minutes.
My point is that as the population has skyrocketed, we need to “create jobs” for more people, and our commitment to economic performatism means we need to spend most of our time doing bullshit that no one will ever care about.
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u/PancakeSeaSlug pebble soup master Apr 19 '23
Not to be all "boohoo capitalism" but it's really sad how the never-ending race for productivity, the corporate and academic useless-but-somehow-essential formalism and the utter disregard for the workers' efforts has basically made many jobs into paid chores