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@ShadowJonathan this is so fucking true. Source: am one of those freaks

@AnachronistJohn @ShadowJonathan This reminds me of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs theory. Jobs which are useful (shit jobs) don't get paid because the people doing them are supposed to live on the warm glow of doing actually useful things with their lives. Meanwhile the jobs with pay don't help anyone and don't need to exist (i.e. are bullshit jobs)

@rachel I love how you specified non printer tech

@ShadowJonathan Yes, I am such a person!
I would love to build things to fix little issues people keep having, that aren't worth mass-producing, so never get made.
In addition, I would love having a little space in my community, where people come to get their stuff fixed or learn how to do it themselves. I'd love to teach all sorts of things, useful or not.
Bikes, shelves, woodwork, electronics, software, ...

@ShadowJonathan the trains would be so clean, efficient, and numerous that people would actually enjoy using public transit!

@sitcom_nemesis @AnachronistJohn @ShadowJonathan I would love to go back to working in a factory as a lowly grunt worker and blogging about it. Wish I could afford to do it.

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt that's why we need freak polycule communities to help eachother with our basic needs to be able to quadruple the freakyness of earth

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@ShadowJonathan true, if i wasn't forced to work in a company, i would go to every single home to make their cyber higiene top noch, this would allow a sharp reduction of easy hack, and scam.

but i need to live like anyone so i have my work and make this reduction possible only for my company.

Sad but the whole system is built like this, and it's killing the evolution rate.

i'm pretty sure if we give money to it many of our problem would disapear (like the population issue).

@ShadowJonathan In fact, there are guys who will go around obsessively fixing every clogged heating pipe in a 10-mile radius out of spite against the system that tries to stop them.

@ShadowJonathan 100% this.

@AnachronistJohn @ShadowJonathan @sitcom_nemesis
My favorite job ever: driving for Jefferson Lines - scheduled motorcoach service.

Getting mostly poor people where they needed to go. Actually helping people.

What job was I doing when we went almost bankrupt? Yup. Same job.