Ein Forscherteam fand heraus, dass die Arbeit bei Männern, die bis zu 26,5 Stunden im Durchschnitt pro Woche mit ihrem Job verbrachten, eine positive Auswirkung auf die kognitiven Fähigkeiten hatte.
Bei Frauen war das bis zu einer wöchentlichen Arbeitszeit von etwas über 24 Stunden der Fall.
Das Traurige ist: Mit all unserer Technik müsste wahrscheinlich kein Mensch länger als 5h an 5 Tagen die Woche arbeiten, um alle Menschen der Welt mit Nahrung, Wohnung, Kleidung, Gesundheit und Kultur zu versorgen, wenn die Ergebnisse der Arbeit nur besser verteilt würden und nicht so viele Menschen ihre Kraft in #BullshitJobs verbrauchten.
Eigentlich sind praktisch alle Erwerbstätigkeiten, die im Homeoffice, vor einem Bildschirm oder in Kostüm/Anzug ausgeübt werden¹, #BullshitJobs (wie etwa Telefonhöhrerdesinfizierer), die zwar viel zum nominalen BIP beitragen, aber real kaum eines Menschen Leben verbessern (außer dem eigenen).
What "economists" call economic "growth", i.e. the increase of GDP, as billions of #bullshitjobs waste resources and energy, actually means a loss of wealth.
Watching their planet and future getting destroyed by billionaires and crazy "economists", insisting that the answer to a planet and society destroyed by "poverty and #bullshitjobs"-economics, is even more poverty and #bullshitjobs, is tough.
Yes, but in #bullshitjobs (things you could do from home and/or require a suit if not done from home), you also find some from Asia and some other places.
1930: Unnecessary systemic poverty, widespread radicalization, division and hatred.
2024: Unnecessary systemic poverty, widespread radicalization, division and hatred. Plus: 3,000,000,000+ #bullshitjobs and a collapsing biosphere. Thanks to systemic poverty.
Extracting more oil and building more skyscrapers, so more people can commute to #bullshitjobs, isn't economic "growth". But the opposite. It's a waste of time, resources and energy.
Exactly what most of GDP reflects. Time, resources and energy wasted by nonsense employment.
There are more #bullshitjobs than ever. Generating more greenhouse gas emissions than ever.
Everything is getting worse and worse. But governments and journalists pretend that we are making progress. Because otherwise they'd finally have to admit that they are batshit insane.
#bullshitjobs represent our #1 issue. By a gigantic margin.
We are talking about the most severe and dangerous issue in all of human history. Even for me, it's tough to grasp the scope and scale. Let alone communicate it.
But politicians and journalists ignore it altogether.
Jens #Spahn also:
Ausgerechnet ein trumpesker #CDU -Parvenü der außer, korruptionsverdächtiger Lobbyarbeit- (siehe Maskenaffäre)- nie produktive, wertschöpfende Arbeit geleistet hat, maßt sich an Deutschland einen #Freizeitpark zu nennen.
Es gehört schon Chuzpe dazu, wenn ausgerechnet Leute wie Spahn, Merz und Lindner, die außerhalb der Politik nur#Bullshitjobs gemacht haben (aber z.T. viel Geld dafür bekommen), das hohe Lied der ehrlichen Erwerbsarbeit singen.
There are just so many "economists", "economic" think tanks and universities of "economics", it's hard for people to acknowledge that it's all just nonsense.
It will require a miracle for our society to finally emancipate itself from "debt, poverty and #bullshitjobs"-economics.
28 years of climate summits, and we are still not talking about what's killing us.
Not a single word about central banks.
Not a single word about our monetary system.
Not a single word about systemic poverty.
Not a single word about billions of #bullshitjobs.
A genuine economy would feature zero economists. We would be working 90% less and would be magnitudes wealthier.
You only need "economists" if you want to sell the world "fabricated debt, fabricated poverty and fabricated #bullshitjobs, until your planet is burning"-economics.
Hanlon's razor is the proposition that one should "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." It's actually a Napoleon quote.
To which I'll add, LeftistLawyer's first #capitalist corollary --
"Never ascribe to incompetence, that which is adequately explained by #greed."
Which, if you think about it, is really just a euphemism for malice. You have to be ok with the oblique suffering of others to be a good capitalist.
So please stop scratching your heads in confusion about why so many things are so fucked up. We celebrate immiserating the poor and lionizing malicious greed in the capitalist world. Hanlon was the greatest elite enabler of all time.
C'est vrai que les #bullshitjobs, auxquels il convient d'ajouter #ceuxquifontmalleurboulot et #ceuxquiusentmaldeleurpouvoir (j'en ai un en tête, depuis vendredi dernier notamment, qui cumule les deux derniers) ne sont pas les derniers à nous freiner dans notre construction d'une vie saine et d'un monde meilleur.
"The essay was based on a hunch. Everyone is familiar with those sort of jobs that don’t seem, to the outsider, to really do much of anything: HR consultants, communications coordinators, PR researchers, financial strategists, corporate lawyers, or the sort of people (very familiar in academic contexts) who spend their time staffing committees that discuss the problem of unnecessary committees. The list was seemingly endless. What, I wondered, if these jobs really are useless, and those who hold them are aware of it? Certainly you meet people now and then who seem to feel their jobs are pointless and unnecessary. Could there be anything more demoralizing than having to wake up in the morning five out of seven days of one’s adult life to perform a task that one secretly believed did not need to be performed—that was simply a waste of time or resources, or that even made the world worse? Would this not be a terrible psychic wound running across our society? "
"Writing as part of Jarvis Cocker’s Big Issue takeover before his untimely death earlier this month, David Graeber explains his confusion about why we’d destroy the planet if we don’t have to.
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Our society is addicted to work. If there’s anything left and right both seem to agree on, it’s that jobs are good. Everyone should have a job. Work is our badge of moral citizenship. We seem to have convinced ourselves as a society that anyone who isn’t working harder than they would like to be working, at something they don’t enjoy, is a bad, unworthy person. As a result, work comes to absorb ever greater proportions of our energy and time....."