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#include <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdvxPlhTjDU>
// Actually a really crappy doc, no name tags on the interviews and
// they interpret the interviews with distracting CGI animations.

I've been seeing a lot of "remote work" listings on job boards and in adverts. It reminds me of what was said in this documentary, link "People will get dressed put on their data suits and they'll go to work, but they won't be living their home and polluting the world with their cars. They'll say let's go to Hawaii and they'll look at a file of Hawaii. Maybe some one will have a better file, they'll look at that." This is actually true now. Only instead of cyberspace suits, it's zoom meetings and Skype calls. Instead of putting on a data suit on it's putting on a top and maybe a tie, but leaving out the pants. The cyber-world is here. Only, it's the much shirty-er low-rent version that every one could have had just working from home 40 years ago and doing everything over the telephone.

I in-vision that in the next 20 years most white collar jobs will be eliminated. Since all that people do are interacting with a website from home now, in the future there will be even less need to have humans around to choose form a list of menu items on a webpage. Then, users will direct all the actions that have been programmed behind the scenes to remove the need for humans to be employees all together. Any job that at any level has a database component: banking, scheduling, programming, vending and probably more I can't think of will all be replaced with completely solid-state internet software. Solid-state in the sense there will be no human manipulating anything; just software compiled or in hardware that never changes.

"But what about all the middle class people who once had those middle-man-database-monkey jobs will go?", you may ask. Sadly they will go extinct. In 40 years or more we will be looking an Idiochracy. Much like the loss of literacy and the fall of Rome resulting in the Dark Ages. Us too will find our selves in the Cyberdack ages. Why do middle class women wait until their almost menopausal to have kids (ages 38 and up)? Why are so many men turning into women or at least pretending to be women? The middle class birth rate going to zero. There just aren't the same needs for intelligent people around as there once was, and naturally this is reflected is the economy and what people choose to do with their lives. What's even scarier is that Nuclear Power plant's and other infrastructure will also decay. In the next lifetime jobs will go away, computers system will louse their maintainer and manufactures and digital documents will become like clay tablets of old.

But what do you think?
 
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Haha Neet is comfy, NEET is cool NEET is free from work or school!

In all seriousness i literally sit about & do nothing while i shitpost on here or play games while at work so could defo see my job being made redundant so im just miliking it for as long as i can.
 
I just read Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber and found it really interesting. His premise is basically that this has been the prediction for a long time but hasn't happened, and that actually we already have a form of UBI in the form of these bullshit jobs, jobs that don't really need to be done or can be done in significantly less time or automated and yet companies hire for them anyway. He does address that it doesn't really make sense why companies would do this with several theories. So basically, this is already happening, but instead of the jobs going away, companies actually continue to hire more people for increasingly bullshit tasks so that nothing really changes except the people hired to do these things have a deep sense of futility when in the past they might have had actual work to do. I think these kind of jobs will only really go away if we get government UBI or something.
 
#include <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdvxPlhTjDU>
// Actually a really crappy doc, no name tags on the interviews and
// they interpret the interviews with distracting CGI animations.

I've been seeing a lot of "remote work" listings on job boards and in adverts. It reminds me of what was said in this documentary, link "People will get dressed put on their data suits and they'll go to work, but they won't be living their home and polluting the world with their cars. They'll say let's go to Hawaii and they'll look at a file of Hawaii. Maybe some one will have a better file, they'll look at that." This is actually true now. Only instead of cyberspace suits, it's zoom meetings and Skype calls. Instead of putting on a data suit on it's putting on a top and maybe a tie, but leaving out the pants. The cyber-world is here. Only, it's the much shirty-er low-rent version that every one could have had just working from home 40 years ago and doing everything over the telephone.

I in-vision that in the next 20 years most white collar jobs will be eliminated. Since all that people do are interacting with a website from home now, in the future there will be even less need to have humans around to choose form a list of menu items on a webpage. Then, users will direct all the actions that have been programmed behind the scenes to remove the need for humans to be employees all together. Any job that at any level has a database component: banking, scheduling, programming, vending and probably more I can't think of will all be replaced with completely solid-state internet software. Solid-state in the sense there will be no human manipulating anything; just software compiled or in hardware that never changes.

"But what about all the middle class people who once had those middle-man-database-monkey jobs will go?", you may ask. Sadly they will go extinct. In 40 years or more we will be looking an Idiochracy. Much like the loss of literacy and the fall of Rome resulting in the Dark Ages. Us too will find our selves in the Cyberdack ages. Why do middle class women wait until their almost menopausal to have kids (ages 38 and up)? Why are so many men turning into women or at least pretending to be women? The middle class birth rate going to zero. There just aren't the same needs for intelligent people around as there once was, and naturally this is reflected is the economy and what people choose to do with their lives. What's even scarier is that Nuclear Power plant's and other infrastructure will also decay. In the next lifetime jobs will go away, computers system will louse their maintainer and manufactures and digital documents will become like clay tablets of old.

But what do you think?
This has an easy solution. Just tell people to take their new vaccine. Except this time it's a free sterilization. Solve it in a single generation. Drink scotch while and watch the world go all children of men for people without their private doctor.
 
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I just read Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber and found it really interesting. His premise is basically that this has been the prediction for a long time but hasn't happened, and that actually we already have a form of UBI in the form of these bullshit jobs, jobs that don't really need to be done or can be done in significantly less time or automated and yet companies hire for them anyway. He does address that it doesn't really make sense why companies would do this with several theories. So basically, this is already happening, but instead of the jobs going away, companies actually continue to hire more people for increasingly bullshit tasks so that nothing really changes except the people hired to do these things have a deep sense of futility when in the past they might have had actual work to do. I think these kind of jobs will only really go away if we get government UBI or something.
Wow, I looked David Graeber up. A truly exceptional individual. The longer he speaks the rate that it devolves into communist clap-trap increases exponentially. If UBI were enforced, then most people well off would probably stay well off even if their jobs are bullshit. But for poor and destitute who are drug addicts and now a have consistent free money to shoot-up with, UBI would a disaster. This commie is a fake liberal who just wast guaranteed personal monetary security and must not care about the unintended consequences of what he claims. Graeber even goes so far as to say, "The reason I'm a professor is because they never forget to pay you. Where is other fields like writing and making music, you need an agent to make sure you get paid." Graeber transparently only want's to have UBI for purely selfish reasons he only tastily admits to believing. How this tard is not compared to Valerie Solanas is beyond me.

It's funny because obviously the humans think and organise themselves into feudal structures where you have a king and then some loads and then some people for the loads to boss around; it's everywhere. The leader of the government must be selected by God, in the US it's either the republican god or the Democrat god, but the side the louse thinks that they were betrayed by their deity and make up excuses as to why the other god was playing evil tricks. The purpose of capitalism is just what people did in power in Soviet Union and also in the US's mixed economy, which is to meet peoples egos so they want to have lackeys and the like. When I started my businesses I was constantly told that I would want to be a sole-proprietorship and that I should hire employees. I did neither and my companies survived past 5 years and have been successful. So, the culture around capitalism in the West is just as backwards everywhere else. Which must make it endemic to Humans.

It's frustrating that this guy is such a tard, when he says some few actually not bullshit political crack-pottery. It makes me feel under threat living with a mob of over-employed retards who want vote themselves free money. All these people from Graeber's books keep their pointless jobs, even though they are highly educated and could just find other things they want to do. His question really is a litmus test for whether or not you like feeling sorry for your self. The lawyer could have joined a real law firm or gone into private practice. Teachers usually tutor on the side. Have that board phone-call lady trade places with a homeless man. Try it! They never will. Anyone actually suffering would much prefer a bullshit job over suffering. Never believe that a liberal ever wants people to be better off. They only want you to be better then them, so they get to whine about how shitty their own life is and it would be over shadowed by your life if it were worst . To do that, they need you to be closer to them in earning and social class, but it's just so they can turn things back on to their own problems and be the center of attention.

My guess is that bullshit jobs will correct them selves. The longer people live in a capitalist society and young people discover that most "work" is done by a computer, the premise of having all these employees around will start to seem bizarre. Like maybe it'd be a good thing to not have any extra W2s around suckling on the teet of the company. Boomers and X-ers probably feel this work ethic, 'capital comes form labour' thing the most. My bet is this problem will be gone is 40 years.
 
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But what do you think?
I think your post reads like someone whose first language is not English even though I'm relatively certain it is.

I also think that the overwhelming majority of people go fucking crazy if they don't have constant contact with other humans. Anyone who has ever worked in a service job has witnessed the phenomenon of the same old people coming in over and over for no real reason other than so they can talk to you.

Even if the jobs become obsolete, society will keep them because most people lead sad, lonely lives and being the Office Funny Guy is the sole outlet they have to socialize.

Consider how many jobs out there have already been obsolete for decades. We could literally cut 90% of government and managerial positions right now and nobody would even notice. But we don't, because if I fire Bob then I have no one to talk to while I'm being one of the sloths from Zootopia.
 
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