world of weird things podcast: why jobs as we know them are dying
In today’s world, we’re accustomed to the daily rhythm of the 9 to 5 days of a five-day work week and pay by the hour. But as more jobs are being taken over by machines, the pattern of our working lives will have to come to a slow but still screeching halt. It will have to because the reason behind its existence is a historical aberration, and it’s time we start rethinking it, both at work and in schools instead of continuously careening into an obvious dead end.
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Articles covered or touched on in this episode…
– how hustle culture is slowly, and very literally, killing you
– how automation is stealing jobs and accidentally empowering populists
– the most asinine advice ever given for a working world stuck in the past
– how the gig economy ate the post-industrial world and how to escape its clutches
Related articles and further reading…
– why science says that open offices suck
– why universal basic income won’t save us from mass automation
Intro/outro by Absolute Valentine, courtesy of Lazerdiscs Records
