Inspired by 80’s sci-fi, Elon Musk envisions a world without work where AI acts like a magic Genie. But how do we get from now to this abundant future?
What is a post scarcity society?
Category: Work
Work is the way we generate value. We exchange our time for money, but is that historical arrangement in need of change?
The Bullshit Job phenomenon: is most work just pointless?
David Graeber’s book, Bullshit Jobs, suggested a third of jobs are pointless. A decade later, his ideas are more relevant than ever.
Can you get paid to do nothing?
From Bullshit Jobs to Japan’s Rental-do-nothing-man we look at jobs that promise to pay you to do nothing. Can you get wealthy without lifting a finger?
What was a Victorian Pure Finder?
What was a Victorian Pure Finder? Believe it or not, Pure Finders made a living by collecting dog poo and selling it to the tanning industry.
The strangest jobs of the Victorian era
Take a peak into the weirdest jobs of the Victorian era, where a world without fixed employment created the Bone Grubber, Sewer Hunter and the Pure Finder, whose business you’ll never guess.
How Victorian sewer hunters scavenged treasure from beneath London
Hold your nose, put down your sandwich and meet an army of Sewer Hunters dredging the drains of Victorian-era London for treasure.