[HN Gopher] The Decline of Work
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The Decline of Work
Author : jkuria
Score : 9 points
Date : 2022-11-21 22:08 UTC (53 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.wsj.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.wsj.com)
| chadcmulligan wrote:
| Wow, Housing is unaffordable for young people, education costs
| are rising, many see no way out, why try. Sounds like someone
| dropped their stogie in their whiskey and is a bit cranky before
| bed time, and of course the golf club fees are skyrocketing. Why
| won't the baristas work for free!
| maerF0x0 wrote:
| https://archive.ph/V1uGk
| phone8675309 wrote:
| > Unions are on the rise again, attempting to organize Starbucks
| stores (more money for barista body piercings?), Amazon
| warehouses and every other service-economy job. It's wealth
| destruction.
|
| Weird, the time with the highest productivity, wage, and wealth
| growth occurred during a time when unions were active in both the
| US and Western Europe, yet the capitalist class leeches fought
| tooth and nail to stop it (and are fighting tooth and nail to
| stop it now).
|
| Oh, I guess they only care if they get theirs. Disgraceful.
| DGCA wrote:
| I'm so sick of opinion pieces that are written for people who
| share the exact worldview of the author and are just looking to
| pat themselves on the back for being better than the "other".
|
| Do people really like being pandered to this much?
| phone8675309 wrote:
| It's the Wall Street Journal - the kind of people that read
| that throw a fit when the barista spells their name wrong on
| the cup and then write pages long thinkpieces about it that
| other dorks in their circle read.
| ElevenLathe wrote:
| This barely-an-article is just engagement farming of the worst
| "what's the best state in the US?" type. The author is assuming
| the voice of a caricature of an out-of-touch parasitic
| capitalist. If it weren't in the WSJ, I would assume this is
| left-wing parody of the WSJ.
| Kon-Peki wrote:
| > When you slack off and withhold your human capital, you steal
| from everyone.
|
| But mostly from rich people, which is the only reason they care
| mixmastamyk wrote:
| And articles get written in the WSJ preaching to the choir.
| [deleted]
| ElevenLathe wrote:
| Also, you presumably are redeploying that capital to people you
| care the most about: friends and family.
| TapWaterBandit wrote:
| Teacher's have disgraced themselves and their career over the
| pandemic. It has become 100% clear they prioritise themselves and
| their own needs, not the students they supposedly fight for.
|
| Teacher's unions are a weird beast as well, aren't unions
| supposed to be about about organising labour in the face of
| capital? But if schools are mainly run by the government then
| what is the labour-capital relationship here? Too often this just
| turns into mediocre ideological teachers making demands on tax
| payers with no real accountability.
|
| I'm in Australia and the teachers here are already on excellent
| salaries but you'd never know it from the demands and entitlement
| they frequently show.
|
| Education as a sector can't be disrupted quickly enough (and
| thankfully the internet is doing this and I expect by the end of
| the decade the new AI tools will have educational components that
| will outperform the average teacher).
| phone8675309 wrote:
| > It has become 100% clear they prioritise themselves and their
| own needs
|
| Imagine complaining that a worker prioritizes their own needs
| and calling that 'disgrace[ful]'.
| TapWaterBandit wrote:
| It is disgraceful when out the other side of their mouths
| every unreasonable demand they make is prefaced with "don't
| be selfish, give us what we want. What about the children?".
|
| They care about the kids only when it suits them to care.
| phone8675309 wrote:
| A person can care about more than one thing at a time -
| they can be concerned with both their own survival and the
| education of children.
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