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by BobbyTables2
1 day ago
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I’ve also wondered about this. Industrialization allowed people to shift human labor from agriculture to factories and such. Seems like intellectual labor became more possible as people looked beyond subsistence but also more valuable since a greater population could drive demand for more than just subsistence related activities. If both aren’t done by many humans, what’s left? Sports training and massage therapy? Sports training might not even be safe… OTOH, my current lifestyle is already weird if I think about it. Developing software for a machine that I cannot make myself, whose raw materials I cannot obtain, using energy I cannot produce on my own — somehow entitles me to get a particular amount of goods and services from others including food, healthcare, entertainment, landscaping, and manufactured goods. We live in interesting times… |
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Peacock tails.
As in, things where the effort itself is the point, to show off that you are capable of surviving when you consume resources so extravagantly on something other than (or even detrimental to) mere survival.
This includes stuff like hand-made art, being in a literal cult, extreme sports, and also refusing modern medical interventions/seeking out infections.
You may ask how someone can get paid for those things; I don't know, but we did manage to monetise talking to each other (ads on Facebook) and being locked in a house with some strangers while everyone's under surveillance cameras for a few weeks (TV show Big Brother).