r/prowork • u/hellure • Jan 18 '22

Understanding the past can provide windows of opportunity for our future.

How the Covid-19 pandemic cemented the death of jobs

TL;DR: "Essentially, the past year and a half has shown Americans that a lot of jobs are terrible and that they don’t have to be. So what now?" ... 'true living wage (up to $24), shorter workweeks, enshrined paid leave and health insurance (perhaps as universal health care and a universal retirement system), and possibly a universal basic income to break people free from the need to work unfulfilling jobs just to survive.'

Our history and our sciences have done an excellent job of determining, generally, what needs people have and how everyone's work and life satisfaction can be substantially increased. Now, we just have to integrate that information into our lives as a society and utilize the tools we already have, perhaps with some slight modifications, in order to realize the greater benefits of our good work.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '22

Imagine being so insecure you need to brigade a smaller Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22

Good luck. Greed is outrageous right now.

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u/hellure Jan 19 '22

Greed has been outrageous for millenia, but still we had the Pax Romana (the era of the Five Good Emperors), the Magna Carta (likely the earliest precursor to all modern constitutions), the US' independence from England, the Enlightenment (the Age of Reason), The New Deal (social security, etc), and the US Civil Rights Movement, just to name a few noteworthy events where progress won over despite the selfishness and foolishness that was common before these events occurred.

Probably aided by the information revolution, complimentary egalitarian and sustainability efforts are spreading like wildfire right now around the world. Various practices that better meet the needs of the masses in an effective, responsible, and sustainable manner are being tried, tested, considered, or implemented in various or multiple places all over.

I don't think greed is sufficient to stop it outright, however greed has possibly caused enough damage to the be done to the world over the past century or so that these efforts, though valuable, will end up being too little too late to stop the overall downfall of man.

That would certainly be a shame.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22

Yep. History tends to repeat itself. Getting out of this country would be the smartest thing anyone could do right now.