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Edit: tell me this doesn't sound stupid

There is only two types of jobs:

Doing something someone else doesn't want to do

Or

Doing something a specific other person can't do

The only thing I can think of that someone other than myself can't do is piss my wife off to no end. Not really a job, tho.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It doing something it isn't practical for them to do

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What if you’re a professional burglar? Then, you’re doing something other people don’t want to do themselves, nor do they want you to do it either. The society doesn’t need burglars, but some people do it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you're a professional burglar, then you have bills to pay so you'll be taking on jobs for clients or a fence. Therefore, you're doing the job your client/fence doesn't want to do themselves.

Also, while society might not need burglars, it sure is good at creating them.

I think then the secret to happiness would be to remain an amateur burglar, motivated by your passion for crime.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, you don’t want to turn your hobby into a jobby.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

If I just agree can I move on with my life?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

No you must answer to the internet until we all fully agree in even the small details. Its a matter!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Do the job that needs to be done. That is how a lot of businesses get started, keeping an eye out for a need to fill. I used to go to my job and avoid doing work but eventually the boss tracked me down and gives me the shit job nobody wants to do. As I've grown wiser I realized if I take the initiative I can pick the job I want and some other sap gets stuck with the shit job.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Doing something that requires more time than is available to one person.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is categorically untrue. Jobs exist because one person can't do all the jobs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

1 person doesn't want to clean toilets; but 50 other people are okay with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Perhaps but someone's going to have to clean that toilet one way or the other.

The primary issue here is that there is a societal disparity between the toilet cleaner and let's say a CEO or a doctor or something along those lines. But there shouldn't be the doctor/ceo and toilet cleaner should get paid the same or there abouts in any case.

Cleaning a toilet should be just as important as heart surgery or running a multinational business.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If all 50 people want to clean 1 toilet, 49 people are shit out of luck

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They can just work together and use very small brushes. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

You have truly made me look a fool 🥲

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There isn't one person tho.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you have the owner of the business he can only perform so many tasks at once therefore that person must hire other people to perform more tasks.

Wanting or not wanting has nothing to do with performing jobs.

If there are jobs that people don't want to do therefore there must be jobs that people do want to do... What about those people? How do they fit in with your paradigm?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If someone wanted to do it why pay them? Why even call it a job?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Because we live in a faith-based monetary system. We need money to eat and sleep inside of a house. Desire and wanting to do jobs have nothing to do with that. It necessitates.

If we lived in a Star Trek utopian society where money was no longer the driving force of employment, there would still be jobs. There would even still be jobs that people don't want to do and they would still do them out of a sense of responsibility or even necessity.

The entirety of your original statement in this post is a non-sequitur.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I can love what I do as much as I want. But I'm going to become homeless and die if I don't get paid.

Lots of businesses use your logic to underpay people, like in the games industry and with Zoo Keepers, but at the end of the day they need something to stop them from dying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I love my job...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I think you've cracked the case. Good job. I'm being serious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I worked as an Outsource Manager at a couple of game companies (in addition to working for many years as a game artist). I outsourced mostly art asset creation, mostly to cheaper countries. It was kind of bittersweet, since it was clear to me and the artists at our studio that we were outsourcing really enjoyable work, work that our internal artists would rather have done than spend some of their time reviewing the cool art stuff these outsource artists created. But doing this allowed the studio to make a bigger, better game than our limited size team could do on their own.

So basically, I disagree with your premise. There are many sorts of jobs, for many reasons.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Why didn't you do it for free? Why didn't the outsourcers do it for free?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You paid for your own last meal yes? If not, who paid for it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Living costs money. Biggest reason for people to work.

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