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If you can’t picture your job being done by a pig wearing clothes in a children’s book, it’s not a real job and you add no real value to society. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Eh.

During World War II, secrecy required some jobs to be performed where workers didn't understand the context of what they were doing. For instance, a worker would wave a wand over a set of clothes. If the wand beeped, the clothes went into one pile. If the wand didn't beep, the clothes went into a different pile. The worker was checking to see if the clothes were irradiated, but they weren't able to know the context on why they were waiving wands over clothes.

I suspect that a lot of jobs are at that level of abstraction. There may be value in those jobs, but the affects of the job not getting done aren't immediate and it takes a higher level understanding of the work flow to understand why that job is necessary.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I love that your counher-example is also just casually a violation of workplace safety and employee consent.