The Value of Idleness: jayeless.net
@jayeless I read somewhere (perhaps in Four Thousand Weeks) that people in the past used to imagine that with the advance in technology and automation, people in the 21st century would work less than 15 hours a week. Ah! We wish 😌
@pratik Heh, and the sad thing is, we as a society probably have the resources to make that happen, but there’s no political will for it. Instead we have high un- and underemployment while full-time salaried workers are overworked like crazy… and so many “bullshit jobs” in things like marketing or administration (not that those things are entirely useless, but for the volume of positions in them that there are today…). If we distributed workloads and the value produced more equitably, who knows how our lives could be 😌
@jayeless Was talking (complaining?) about this with a friend. In my job I don’t have time to ponder. I’m forever busy. I feel like I’m worse at my job for it.
@Omrrc Yeah, absolutely. It’s a problem in teaching over here as well (which is what I was doing until recently) – teachers naturally want to deliver the best, most engaging lessons they can to their students, but they’re so overworked they struggle to find the kind of “idle time” in which good ideas are more likely to surface
