No Stupid Questions

Lockdown proved that most of the work most people do is fucking useless bullshit at least in highly industrialised countries. We could all be living our best lives working less and reduce the amount or carbon we pump into the atmosphere if the world we inhabited wasn't governed by psychos and if people weren't driven by mindless consumerism. Capitalist individualism is slowly consuming everything and destroying the earth.

I think we would have a lot more farmers.

Not sure. I mean you would think being a garbage man or sewer guy or retirement home orderly would pay the highest in that situation but everything else being equal (ie similar jobs with similar requirements which often bump up the pay because of the time it takes to get them) I find out you tend to get paid for stress. More stressful the better the pay. everything else being equal. So like if all jobs paid the same I would not do a ton of stressful jobs..... but. Like I might still teach. Which can be stressful. Even massively stressful. But I do really like education and honestly the whole way thought works. I think that is what you would find. There are folks that love stress if its in the right way or doing the right thing. Often if its something they are good at or just really enjoy. I mean that is what you see in athletic competition. Basically people would only be willing to work at jobs they really enjoy or ones where they did not have to stress except for the low amount of people who literally enjoy stress which I think a few do.

I desperately wish it were financially viable for me to be a math teacher. Instead, I work in tech and stare at a glowing rectangle all day to make more money for the oligarchs causing this problem in the first place.

It's tricky, because a lot of the high paying jobs are things like management and CEO level. Most people in those positions seem to be there for the power too. They get to boss other people around all day.

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