Here a list of things which could be part of a job guarantee program, while avoiding the creation of more “bullshit jobs”.
- Art
- Volunteer work
- Home care
- Open Source projects
- Translating foreign documents
- Human power plants
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Human Power Plants
A funny concept developed by artists Kris De Decker and Melle Smets is the human power plant. As the name suggests this is a power plant which converts human labour into electricity. Like many artistic projects, the main purpose of this project is to make people think about our energy consumption. Continue reading Human Power Plants
Bullshit guarantee… (?)
David Graeber, professor in anthropology at the London School of Economics has conceived the concept of bullshit jobs. He defines a bullshit as any job which would not be missed by anyone if those jobs would suddenly disappear. More over he classifies jobs as bullshit ones if the very people who do those jobs consider their work as useless. Continue reading Bullshit guarantee… (?)
