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That's the issue, for me. Mind-numbingly boring. Plus concrete slab standing is whole body punishment, especially combined with looking down all day. Ford gave USians the assembly line, before workers were connected to the whole production process.The best experience I had in factories was repair, because then I had to go various places in the factory so I could not only see how individual components fit together but also understand why. Next was QA. BTW sewing or cutting various materials all day is also horrible for the body.
Maybe people could be cross trained and offered the opportunity to work position A for a month, position B another month, position C the next and so on.
Even stuff like a 3-4 day work week, unionized mandatory lunch breaks, pay progression tied to skill and such would make factory jobs fine - like imagine you're only going in 4 days a week and working 2-3 hours at a time with breaks and you're back home before 4pm as well as making enough money to raise a family by yourself.
Would be absolutely fine.
The issue is that the pays shit because its seen as a desperation job.
Also places that have mass industry like this tend to have a higher amount of people who own a house, so the need to work insane hours just isnt there - if you owned a house you could easily work less than full time (2-3 days a week) just to pay for your living costs and savings.
At that point, why not just automate everything that can be, and let people persue more fulfilling work, for lux life? Money is really an arbitrary thing, survival isn't dependent on it other than bad actors hoarding it and the power it affords. Beyond that, let people paint, cook, create clothing, transportation, pottery, tea rituals, whatever to fulfill higher level needs?
Failing that, sure.
Im all for full automation within a communist ideological framework that gives the fruit of this to the workers rather than putting them on the breadline.
For what we have right now though, if it needs done it should be rewarding and it shouldnt be seen as a 'lesser' job that should only be done by the less desirable sects of society as it is at the moment.
Without factories we dont have any goods, its the backbone of industry and should be seen as a high status job, as all jobs should.
I don't see it as lesser. I just see it as I described. Yes I could do it for a couple or three hours daily, but if it's paying my necessary expenses at that level, it means it's already unnecessary, unless I'm missing something.
Oh yes no mistake here I get you don't believe that, I was more referencing the person I was discussing in my OP - the attitude described is downstream of the class system of course.
Ah my mistake, thanks for clarification.