when you are served by human, it just brings certain je ne sais quoi.

i’m baffled both by the angle of attack and choice of an image (is this retweet of musk?)

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    If we’re automating the waiter out of existence, how on earth do we still have an ‘order taker’? Surely you can just order on the app, or better yet reheat your own slop at home.

    There isn’t a job that can’t/won’t be made degrading by wage slavery. I mentioned this elsewhere, but teachers are treated like shit in most places, especially outside of the public sector. It doesn’t make the work itself inherently degrading.

    The thing about jobs is that they stand between us and our work. They keep us from being useful to each other until we convince ourselves that in an ideal world we’d all be watching TV and writing fan fiction. But we need work imho — just not as defined by capitalism

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      They keep us from being useful to each other until we convince ourselves that in an ideal world we’d all be watching TV and writing fan fiction.

      Writing fan fiction is work and I have the patreon subscriptions to prove it!

    • We’ll still have cooks, food prep, bartenders, baristas.

      I’m just saying I don’t see the point in having someone ferry all your food from the kitchen to your table and tell you the soup of the day. I think it just exists to make people feel like waited on royals, or to create jobs small business kulaks don’t have to actually pay proper wages for.

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      writing fan fiction

      Writers are workers though, similar to artist they are just artisanal occupied. Its called fan fiction and is deemed by capitalistic hegemony as lesser due to copyright and “non-profit” motive behind those works.

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        I’m not denying that. But compare serving someone a meal to writing a story no-one will ever read. One of these acts is profoundly alienating. People should have the freedom to write just for themselves tbc, but I wouldn’t consider that ‘work’ in the same way.

        And I write btw lol