I wonder if these were.gov. IP addresses
Peter principle assisted living
Must be freaking nice!
I’ve been saying it for a long time — a lot of jobs out there are BS jobs. David Graeber wrote a book with that title in 2018. People get paid to sit around and wait for the phone to ring. People get paid to put little numbers in little boxes in spreadsheets that no one will ever look at. People get paid to do nothing.
Artificial Intelligence (just simple logical processing of low-level procedures) is a going to rock this world. People who are bored at work, people who can do their job remotely — these people are very likely to be unemployed in the next 5 years because of AI.
I see 50% unemployment as being a likely outcome. Maybe not 5 years from now, but soon. Society has to start thinking about what we will do when MOST of the population does not have the ability to contribute their labor to the economy.
This is not a trivial problem.
This is not about boredom at work.
And outside the government, I bet few blue collar workers were searching.
They're going to need them soon when they are fired for contributing nothing of value.
We were told to grab a broom
Make Work or Busy Work jobs have been around forever. My father was in the Civilian Conservation Corp in the 30’s in South Dakota. He and thousands like him were put to work clearing dead trees and building fire watch towers in the black hills. The government created the jobs to get these young men off the streets and keep them busy and to help get money (paychecks)in circulation.
I was on inside technical sales for 32 years and before I retired, I never had any time to be bored. I was on the phone 8 hours a day and worked through lunch. I pretty much figure that these have to be government workers as I have never met any that actually do any work.
My current occupation involves a fair amount of idle time. Much of it I spend right here.
Think of those many "A day in the life of a tech worker" TikTok videos that young women love posting showing a work day of little more than answering a couple of emails and loafing in the corporate yoga room or cafeteria. Work from home has made it even worse. These young women are literally posting themselves answering a couple of emails while poolside in their bikinis at a Mexican resort.
This is Universal Basic Income (UBI) in practice except instead of receiving free money for not having a job, they're receiving free money for only pretending to have a job.
We could easily cleave about 40% of these jobs and lose nothing in productivity. In some industries (government, tech, and academia) we could probably cut about 75% of them.
Elon Musk showed us how this is done when he fired 70% of Twitter and the site still functions the same.
Now that the data has been released now they have something to look for a new job.
Pink slips on Friday