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I went to the dentist, so no walk in the morning, and then later it was raining and also a tropical cyclone warning, whatever that is. We still have power, so that’s something.
I’ve started taking apart the Lego Eiffel Tower (10307). It’s probably the easiest deconstruction of any large set I’ve done so far. I mean, I’m not done yet (I think I just packaged up bag 60 out of seventy something).
I had a long phone call with J. It was really interesting. I’ve been talking to people about what jobs should pay more, sparked by a friend who was doing UX work and who will soon be driving a school bus. She had posted about a job at Salesforces in UX that paid less than the bus driving job (which includes health insurance and 401K). I talked to R. (husband) about how supply, demand and what jobs can be automated and the implications of Not Doing a Job, or devolving a job from a paid job (janitor) to being part of another job (the staff cleans the restrooms) or just not doing it at all. I noticed that in the conversation with J., this conversation had a tendency to tip over into the tangentially related, but not at all interesting to me type of black-and-white, binary thinking that often happens when I talked to my sister about these kinds of ideas. I was really surprised, and now I’m going to be thinking about that part of it a lot, too.
All the jobs are connected, because they are all done by humans, and we only have the one planet, but that is _NOT_ how we tend to think of which jobs are connected. We tend to think of jobs as connected if they are under the same corporate umbrella. But that is not the only possible connection. If everyone is suffering from a too small pool of workers, the connection to that limited labor pool is starkly apparent. Or at least it should be!
SPOILERS!
I watched Elemental (the animated Disney movie about the complications of living in a melting pot city and growing up as the child of an immigrant family and falling in love with someone from a very different background). It’s a really odd movie, but a quite good one. I feel like it’s overly optimistic, in how Ember’s dad does eventually accept Ember not taking over the shop AND dating a water guy on top of it. It’s a funny and sad movie with a happy ending and a lot of terrible infrastructure and questionable governance and racism and microaggressions that are really never fully resolved. Probably true to life, really.
I’ve started taking apart the Lego Eiffel Tower (10307). It’s probably the easiest deconstruction of any large set I’ve done so far. I mean, I’m not done yet (I think I just packaged up bag 60 out of seventy something).
I had a long phone call with J. It was really interesting. I’ve been talking to people about what jobs should pay more, sparked by a friend who was doing UX work and who will soon be driving a school bus. She had posted about a job at Salesforces in UX that paid less than the bus driving job (which includes health insurance and 401K). I talked to R. (husband) about how supply, demand and what jobs can be automated and the implications of Not Doing a Job, or devolving a job from a paid job (janitor) to being part of another job (the staff cleans the restrooms) or just not doing it at all. I noticed that in the conversation with J., this conversation had a tendency to tip over into the tangentially related, but not at all interesting to me type of black-and-white, binary thinking that often happens when I talked to my sister about these kinds of ideas. I was really surprised, and now I’m going to be thinking about that part of it a lot, too.
All the jobs are connected, because they are all done by humans, and we only have the one planet, but that is _NOT_ how we tend to think of which jobs are connected. We tend to think of jobs as connected if they are under the same corporate umbrella. But that is not the only possible connection. If everyone is suffering from a too small pool of workers, the connection to that limited labor pool is starkly apparent. Or at least it should be!
SPOILERS!
I watched Elemental (the animated Disney movie about the complications of living in a melting pot city and growing up as the child of an immigrant family and falling in love with someone from a very different background). It’s a really odd movie, but a quite good one. I feel like it’s overly optimistic, in how Ember’s dad does eventually accept Ember not taking over the shop AND dating a water guy on top of it. It’s a funny and sad movie with a happy ending and a lot of terrible infrastructure and questionable governance and racism and microaggressions that are really never fully resolved. Probably true to life, really.