Everyone is going nuts over this jobs report, I think it's insane we measure economic success by the number of jobs we create in the first place

 Seriously, does anyone else find this dystopian? like OMG, we create millions of jobs! This is great! Oh noes, we barely created any, this is horrible!

I mean, I get it, we designed our society where everyone has to work to get money, but given I'm literally the guy to question that whole relationship, I find the whole concept dystopian. Like we sit around cheering on rich people creating things for poor people to do in exchange for money. We value creating as many jobs as possible and people working as much as possible when it seems so unnecessary. Does the sky fall when we dont have jobs? Did the sky fall during COVID? Again, ignore the fact that people need to work to get money, which is something that we as a society made up and can change at any time. 

 And again, that's my point, we can change that at any time. I honestly think that the biggest marker of social progress is job destruction. I mean, read my previous article. I would argue that AI destroying jobs is a good thing. I think that society working less is a good thing. We just gotta come up with an alternate way to provide for people outside of the job market. Which isn't a bad thing. I mean, why should we wanna spend all our time working for rich people? It's stupid and dystopian. I literally feel like we're all brainwashed into this, and that if we just came up with a different way of doing things, we would be free. 

Some people think the alternative is socialism and communism, but the people who say that don't even know what socialism and communism are. They think government doing stuff is socialism and communism. It isn't. Well, complete state control of the economy is basically authoritarian communism, but I don't advocate for that. I support some privatization and dont think the government running everything is a good thing. But the government providing an income from taxing the rich who own the means of production, and providing basic services like healthcare, education, and stuff like that? Sure! That's more aligned with like, social democracy than communism. Although even they glorify working for a living. Still, the whole high tax cradle to grave welfare state thing within capitalism is based. We should do that instead of working our lives away. Sorry, not sorry.