We All Hated Busy Work. Now That It's Disappearing, It Turns Out We Miss It
talon8635
15 points
4 comments
September 26, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
talon8635
Restructurings and AI are making entry-level work more efficient. But managers realize a lot is lost when people don’t get practice.
allears
We miss the salary too.
from_memory
I don't miss the tedium. I miss the predictability, the normalcy. There is so much volatility now, and it's a little frightening.
proc0
Not really. It's the new expectation of higher productivity decoupled from a proportional raise in wages that is the worst part of the AI revolution. If we didn't live in a corporatocracy we would see either everyone working less or getting paid more in proportion to productivity increase.