when you are served by human, it just brings certain je ne sais quoi.
i'm baffled both by the angle of attack and choice of an image (is this retweet of musk?)
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There's so much more to the job than carrying things and putting them on tables though. What if you have questions about the food? What if you want them to give your steak another touch on the grill? The system you're describing is fast food, which is fundamentally something else (while it certainly has its place).
Read the menu? Or ask the person taking your order at the counter?
Tell that to the order taker?
Sorry but I work retail and I find it so inherently degrading I don't think it should exist at all. It's breed a class of completely impatient, helpless people who refuse to do any basic problem solving and so torment minimum wage servants cuz they can't get their treats. Learn to read a fucking menu!
If we're automating the waiter out of existence, how on earth do we still have an 'order taker'? Surely you can just order on the app, or better yet reheat your own slop at home.
There isn't a job that can't/won't be made degrading by wage slavery. I mentioned this elsewhere, but teachers are treated like shit in most places, especially outside of the public sector. It doesn't make the work itself inherently degrading.
The thing about jobs is that they stand between us and our work. They keep us from being useful to each other until we convince ourselves that in an ideal world we'd all be watching TV and writing fan fiction. But we need work imho — just not as defined by capitalism
Writers are workers though, similar to artist they are just artisanal occupied. Its called fan fiction and is deemed by capitalistic hegemony as lesser due to copyright and "non-profit" motive behind those works.
I'm not denying that. But compare serving someone a meal to writing a story no-one will ever read. One of these acts is profoundly alienating. People should have the freedom to write just for themselves tbc, but I wouldn't consider that 'work' in the same way.
And I write btw lol