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There are some days when I just look around and cry to the sky, “Could I just deal with a different set of assholes today maybe??!”
In other words, let’s try it.
i’d love some new problems, new problems would be a breath of fresh air
Me, getting home from work after working a grueling two hours pressing The Button.
Yes, a big plot point in The Jetsons was that he felt overworked by being expected to work a couple hours a day where he sat at a chair mostly not pressing The Button.
I’m pretty sure that gif is him arriving to work, not getting home from it.
Correct, it starts with the bed folding up and popping George out like a toaster.
Possibly, I don’t remember the intro very well, and just went off a gif I could find. I never particularly liked the Jetsons but I was left alone with cartoons as a babysitter way too much as a kid.
In another episode Jane went to the doctor because her fingers had “button-itis”.
Rofl well at least they predicted the rise of RSIs from hitting keys
“But how would anything get done?”
Well, a surprising amount of work can get done when you remove managers from the equation.
It drives me crazy that there are people who think us humans are inherently lazy. It’s silly to think money is the ONLY thing that incentivizes us to work. We build shit because we want to. Did the native Americans build Tipis and expect to get payed? No! They built another Tipi because they fucking needed another Tipi. Imagine the type of shit we could build in the future if capital wasn’t a thing and budget wouldn’t be a barrier.
We are lazy! But that’s an evolutional advantage to save energy. We don’t necessarily need money, but let’s not act like the path of least resistance isn’t a thing.
I mostly agree with you, but we shouldn’t leave anything in our blind spots.
Turning every meeting into the email it should have been will also speed things up
A surprising amount of work is utterly useless.
1900s Utopians: “In the future, we’ll have so much food that we’ll never go hungry. Our days will be easy and we’ll have lots of time to spend with family and friends. We will devote ourselves to art and culture, when we are not exploring the cosmos in our star-spanning spaceships.”
2000s Utopians: “In the future, our bullshit jobs won’t eat up our entire day, which will give us more free time to go to debate club and call one another dumbfuck loser bitchasses. We’ll find an alternative to plastic so filling our houses full of bobbleheads won’t cause a looming ecological catastrophe. Someone will post an image of a woman with regular colored hair waving a sign that says ‘Cellularly grown meat is still murder, you assholes!’ and it will be the subject of every YouTube channel and podcast for a generation.”
I love a midtopia.
15-hour weeks? Man! I’d make a killing teaching guitar to all those bored office workers!
This is the world we should be aiming for, where labor is performed by machine, while humans seek higher purpose in art and culture
This would only work in an economic system which can accommodate it, where the average person could be unemployed without consequences
That’s what UBI is for
What do you charge right now?
For online lessons I charge £10 per hour for complete beginners, £15 for everyone else
Nah, I got useless shit to learn and practice and music and software to make; no time for arguing.
I would rather insufferable communists than likeable fascists. (Not saying these adjectives generally apply.)
As a kid I read an old sci fi story about a post-scarcity world where everybody just hung out and goofed around. A few people start crafting little items by hand and trading them, first by bartering and then using little tiddly-wink tokens as money. They get a huge slapdown from authorities because commerce is illegal. I forget how it ends. Wish I could find that story again.
I think it’s weird to believe that bartering would vanish (or be illegal in the case of this story) in a post-scarcity world. Resources are plentiful; what a person can do with those resources is still rare or even unique. They might not exchange money but I would imagine, for example, artists might trade their works to each other. Like a painter trading a portrait to a sculptor for a statue.
It wasn’t the bartering that bothered the government, it was when the people created a monetary system using little plastic tokens that were normally used for meaningless bets on sports. I really wish I could find the original story.
The South Park with the space otters and time kid? Atheists at war over what to call their club?
Science!
We create this future by never letting a single person horde wealth or power.
We have equal wealth and we perpetually redistribe all excess wealth. Every single important decision is made by a representative democratic system and everyone is required to participate in the political process.
Hey I’ll probably be alive in 2050 so I hope so.
https://epdf.pub/frederik-pohl-the-midas-plaguedbb0fd38b8a8558fcb28f08e2f590a093413.html
The Midas Plague.
Unlimited recycling, free fusion energy, and robot labor have given the world all the wealth anyone could want. That’s the problem…
Topia
Imagine you miss an HOA meeting and a vote lets a bunch of Tankies move in on your street so you have to find a new HOA with monthly payments equal to 1/50th your income who defederate from the Tankie communities including the one you’re currently in.
