@SK1ZM @jdslyd @skylar @Dicer @TrevorGoodchild @WoodshopHandman @sickburnbro I'm not even sure it's about alienation. It's probably not that jobs just "feel like" they do nothing, but they literally do nothing.

Skylar can joke about enjoying chores, but we aren't sweeppilled broommaxers who just feel bad when Roombas take a task away. We aren't really frustrated microwaves replaced wood stoves.

The lamentable thing here is as we improved tech, we didn't replace productive tasks with other productive ones. We instead replaced them with bogus activities that literally don't produce value at all.

It may seem wild that we're paying people to do things that hinder society rather than improve it, but look around and there's no shortage of such fake jobs.

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Deep down, the people doing them know they're pointless. They're aware they're a burden to the world, and that guilt eventually becomes depression.