• bstix@feddit.dk
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        My local sewer guy takes pride in his job. Not only does he care enough to know the entire sewer layout for every lot in town, he also cares enough about it to always provide the customer with a good offer. He just wants it done right. But it doesn’t just stop there. He is also the chairman for the sewer industry in the entire country, giving advice to all the other sewer companies, municipalities and other industries.

        No, he probably doesn’t particularly enjoy hosing down somebody’s fatberg, but him and his guys usually seem to have fun doing it anyway. He gets paid well be too.

        If I got half the pay for having half the fun and being able to take half the pride in what I do, I’d gladly accept the job.

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                The suggestion was that workers (“we”) should seek to automate processes that workers prefer not to perform.

                Your objection was that if such automation were possible to achieve and to implement, then they would have already done so.

                Processes of production, and the utilization and development of machinery implicated in production, is determined by business owners, not by workers.

                Business owners are bound by the profit motive, not by a motive to improve the experience of workers.

                Any activity or objective not supported by the profit motive is simply discarded, under our current systems.

                The meaningful suggestion is that workers (“we”) should seek to automate processes that workers prefer not to perform, even if business owners (“they”) have no motive for doing so.

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            Not at the level of food service industry, cashier’s and the like. Simply cuz automating gutter cleaning doesn’t make capitalists any money.