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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Does work have value beyond meeting financial needs?
 
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Paradoxish posted:

Talking about adults working to "build character" strikes me as exceptionally condescending. Sure, whatever, maybe flipping burgers as your first job really does teach you something useful, but beyond that it reeks of just world nonsense that we tell ourselves to feel better about the fact that some people will spend their whole lives doing menial work for very little pay.

The reason society spreads such a message is because it's antithetical to the existence of society for a large portion of society to be doing nothing productive, regardless of ideology or post-scarcity situations.

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What do the people seeking self-fulfillment have to offer to the portion of humanity who is doing all the work that is not fulfilling?

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Typo posted:

You literally see this already if you go to Japan.

Go to any restaurant, there's a vending machine in it in which you punch in your orders and put in money, out comes a ticket. You give your ticket to 1 person at the counter. It pretty much eliminates the entire need for cashiers or at least reduces it to like 1/5 as much as before.

Granted I don't think you can do this with cooks (yet at least).

The pseudo-gourmet burger niche already has a fully-automated burger cook that is looking for interested buyers: http://momentummachines.com/

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