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Soul sucking job sucks, but if it also makes you a millionaire, then I think feeling oppressed is not entirely earned by your reality. You can always take you million and go on a spiritual quest in Himalayas for next 10 years. Somebody who earns the median wage in the US - which is a lot of people - may not have this option. So I don't think framing it in these terms makes much sense. > I'll be forced into the "shit pay plus 2 hour commute per day, sit for nine hours in a tiny cubicle" That's not exactly how jobs in Bay Area at least look. I mean 2 hrs commute can happen, if you live in a cheap place and not in walk distance from Google campus, but the pay likely would be not "shit" at all, especially for somebody who worked at good salary in Google. > make an actual argument for why I should be gung-ho happy about about the future of work reverting back to being shitty, That's it, from the point of view of about 99.9999% of Earth population, it will still be dream come true. From the point of somebody who has been living in the paradise, they will be living in a bit less luxurious paradise, and that would, I agree, sting and be very distressing. I mean, it is natural for people to strive for perfection, and for improvement of their own conditions. If you are hungry, you want to be sated. If you are never hungry, you want tasty food. If you have tasty food, you want it prepared specially well, be of appropriate spiciness, be healthy, have variety, maybe get some exotic foods from foreign lands, or authentic food from specific region, or prepared in some special ways by uniquely creative cooks. There's always something that can be better. Or, as it happens, worse. But if somebody who had access to Michelin three-stars restaurants, now has to eat in star-less ones, he shouldn't complain he is dying of hunger. His soul may be distressed, but it's not distressed in the same way as would be if he was actually hungry. Yes, there are levels, and yes, understanding them is good. > "Someone else had it shittier" does nothing for me. Maybe that's why somebody else has to tell it. As they say, you can't tickle yourself. So maybe you realize this point, and maybe realize that the suffering that you are feeling may be caused by framing, and also cured by framing too. |