Make a census of the shittiest fucking work on Earth and start automating from there. In 10 years the shittiest job will be feeling ennui smoking a long cigarette under a crescent moon on a little Perisian rooftop

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Agreed 100%. Of course from our perspective within capitalism, the biggest improvements that can be made to almost any job are just like "pay the workers more" and "provide comprehensive medical benefits", but in a socialist country where the workers have adequate representation/power within the system, all improvements to their lives are on the table including changing the nature of the work itself in ways that would be too expensive or would reduce profits under capitalism.

[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

all improvements to their lives are on the table including changing the nature of the work itself in ways that would be too expensive or would reduce profits under capitalism

I think this is a point actually massively underappreciated by people. When you're not chasing "line go up" and only chasing "make world better", there is almost infinite room to make jobs work for everyone.