That’s how I learned to code. Got a night security job to pay bills and just took my laptop there. In my whole time there I had to get up from my desk maybe 2 times because some drunk dudes would get lost and stumble into the territory lol
This is exactly what I think every time I hear about boring jobs. Why not use the time for something else? But I suppose in many boring jobs you are still monitored and have to pay attention.
Many boring jobs are overly strict and forbid employees for any form of multi tasking and often not because it would make them worse workers but because the employer has all the power and would rather not take any risks even though the risks are so minimal.
I mean if you pay someone to watch something, you think it is a super easy job, but you want him to do their best.
Still I don’t think it’s reasonable for someone to be at maximum alertness watching like a store somewhere at night.
But I believe there are many jobs where people don’t care. You have to be there and not break some rules, but that’s it.
This is absolutely a scale thing. Small teams and employers can learn about each other and evaluate risks more accurately than big corporations.
If I hire a security guard for my own company and perimeter I’m familiar with I know exactly how much work is needed to secure it and I know exactly what I should expect from my guard. On the other hand, if a big specialized company does this as a service they don’t know this and thus impose stricter requirements and expectations.
I think this makes sense but also why can’t we just do more of the former and less of the latter as it’s clearly less efficient from societal pov even if appears to be more efficient from purely economical one.
It’s somewhat the same argument for universal income. Gives people time to learn valuable skill sets without giving all their time and energy to some company.
I agree. I’m lucky I got this opportunity which really made me believe in social safety net as an ideology. So many people are stuck because there just no time to respecialize and re-invest your human resources. Automation, AI, robotics are only a problem because of this. If AI can take taxi driver’s job and the taxi driver has the support to re-specialize to something more fulfilling then it’s a win-win for everyone.
I agree, though I prefer the Negative Income Tax formulation over Universal Basic Income, for the simple reason that there’s a lot less bookkeeping (only need to pay out for people making <$X). Ensure everyone is over the poverty line whether employed or not and we can eliminate the minimum wage and people will likely be better off since they can pursue their passions (which they’ll likely be a lot more productive at) instead of doing whatever makes enough money.
That’s how I learned to code. Got a night security job to pay bills and just took my laptop there. In my whole time there I had to get up from my desk maybe 2 times because some drunk dudes would get lost and stumble into the territory lol
This is exactly what I think every time I hear about boring jobs. Why not use the time for something else? But I suppose in many boring jobs you are still monitored and have to pay attention.
Many boring jobs are overly strict and forbid employees for any form of multi tasking and often not because it would make them worse workers but because the employer has all the power and would rather not take any risks even though the risks are so minimal.
I mean if you pay someone to watch something, you think it is a super easy job, but you want him to do their best.
Still I don’t think it’s reasonable for someone to be at maximum alertness watching like a store somewhere at night.
But I believe there are many jobs where people don’t care. You have to be there and not break some rules, but that’s it.
This is absolutely a scale thing. Small teams and employers can learn about each other and evaluate risks more accurately than big corporations.
If I hire a security guard for my own company and perimeter I’m familiar with I know exactly how much work is needed to secure it and I know exactly what I should expect from my guard. On the other hand, if a big specialized company does this as a service they don’t know this and thus impose stricter requirements and expectations.
I think this makes sense but also why can’t we just do more of the former and less of the latter as it’s clearly less efficient from societal pov even if appears to be more efficient from purely economical one.
I too believe, you can “hide” inside a big companies structures.
It’s somewhat the same argument for universal income. Gives people time to learn valuable skill sets without giving all their time and energy to some company.
I agree. I’m lucky I got this opportunity which really made me believe in social safety net as an ideology. So many people are stuck because there just no time to respecialize and re-invest your human resources. Automation, AI, robotics are only a problem because of this. If AI can take taxi driver’s job and the taxi driver has the support to re-specialize to something more fulfilling then it’s a win-win for everyone.
That’s the dream.
I agree, though I prefer the Negative Income Tax formulation over Universal Basic Income, for the simple reason that there’s a lot less bookkeeping (only need to pay out for people making <$X). Ensure everyone is over the poverty line whether employed or not and we can eliminate the minimum wage and people will likely be better off since they can pursue their passions (which they’ll likely be a lot more productive at) instead of doing whatever makes enough money.