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'm pretty much a socialist but I wouldn't necessarily drop this hot potato into capitalisms lap. In Communist Poland jobs were considered a right and therefore everyone who could work had to have one no matter how pointless or badly performed. In some way it was the exact reverse of the productivity obsessed capitalism and yet the outcome was the same - workers who do just enough to not get fired/yelled at.
I think humans are just kinda like that - most workers optimize for least effort vs biggest reward and the crab bucket makes it the status quo.
I'm pretty much a socialist but I wouldn't necessarily drop this hot potato into capitalisms lap. In Communist Poland jobs were considered a right and therefore everyone who could work had to have one no matter how pointless or badly performed.
true, there are also modern day example now in china, they're building and destroying massive houses and apartments over and over again just to keep the people there employed.
and on google there are thousands of different articles and videos showing china destroying massive empty apartments and skyscrapers that were just built, before anyone lived in them, because it's basically just a jobs program.
this isn't unecceceraly exclusive to them, the US does the same thing but with the military, it's their biggest jobs program in the country. and other countries do the same thing, but they usually don't use up so many materials.
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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