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diff --git a/content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md b/content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md index 1c3b4ca..746e82a 100644 --- a/content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md +++ b/content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Automation is another important topic that ties into all this. I remember having Again, I can't contest the fact that pointless work creates jobs people survive on and I'm not pretending that's not the case. But in a potential future where survival doesn't rely on employment, automation seems good in the sense that it frees people from miserable labor. -In a sane economic system, less jobs would be good news. It would mean there's less work to be done which would mean more leasure time for everybody. Only in today's backwards economy do people worry about not having enough work, even if that work is pointless. +In a sane economic system, fewer jobs would be good news. It would mean there's less work to be done which would mean more leasure time for everybody. Only in today's backwards economy do people worry about not having enough work, even if that work is pointless. It doesn't seem to add up that after rapid technological progress which automated much of the labor humans used to perform, here we still are with a forty-hour work week. Predictions a hundred years ago said we'd have a fifteen-hour work week. So what's preventing this? |