How come "make-work" is bad but "creating jobs" is good?
@peterdrake I never think of creating jobs as good, since a job is a cost of production.
Also, usually the people who talk about job creation are talking about creating them in a specific place, which I don't care about.
Though in reality a useful job is much better than make work, since make work is paying the cost without producing anything.
@pganssle @lucifargundam Related question: Why do we always complain about technology "destroying jobs"? Wasn't the point of creating all this technology to reduce the amount of work we have to do?
@peterdrake @lucifargundam To be clear I do not think it's a bad thing when technology "destroys jobs". People think it's a bad thing because, IMO, they confuse costs for benefits (since practically speaking you need a job to get an income, people think they want a job rather than an income).
>> @peterdrake @lucifargundam To be clear I do not think it’s a bad thing when technology “destroys jobs”.
<< I mean... My agreement to that would be context-sensitive.
>>People think it’s a bad thing because, IMO, they confuse costs for benefits (since practically speaking you need a job to get an income, people think they want a job rather than an income).
<<Every time I reread this, I reinterpret it going in a different direction. Could you please rephrase?
