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There is only one type of job: Doing something someone else doesn't want to do. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Edit: tell me this doesn't sound stupid

There is only two types of jobs:

Doing something someone else doesn't want to do

Or

Doing something a specific other person can't do

The only thing I can think of that someone other than myself can't do is piss my wife off to no end. Not really a job, tho.

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If someone wanted to do it why pay them? Why even call it a job?

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Because we live in a faith-based monetary system. We need money to eat and sleep inside of a house. Desire and wanting to do jobs have nothing to do with that. It necessitates.

If we lived in a Star Trek utopian society where money was no longer the driving force of employment, there would still be jobs. There would even still be jobs that people don't want to do and they would still do them out of a sense of responsibility or even necessity.

The entirety of your original statement in this post is a non-sequitur.

[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I can love what I do as much as I want. But I'm going to become homeless and die if I don't get paid.

Lots of businesses use your logic to underpay people, like in the games industry and with Zoo Keepers, but at the end of the day they need something to stop them from dying

[–] explodes@lemmy.one 1 points 3 months ago

I love my job...