The benefits of productivity increases should not be consolidated at the top. We should take our time back.
i already do this. my boss just doesn’t know it.
I don’t understand the title. Specialisation is one of the drivers of having a shorter work day. If your work is niche, then you can get a higher pay rate and work less hours because you are in greater demand. Otherwise if you are a generalist, you have to supply more of your time to meet the wider demand.
It’s a Heinlein quote.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
I’m on the fence, personally, some to like, some not.
“jack of all trades, master of none; but better than a master of one” as the old saying goes
If your work is niche, then you can get a higher pay rate and work less hours because you are in greater demand.
While it might work that way currently, I dont think its really desirable to have some people work way less than others based on skill. I dont think me being a software developer should result in me having more free time than the health care worker.
And beyond that, overspecialisation leads to siloing of expertise and common knowledge. People with specialised knowledge having the freedom to reskill, or being able to spend some time doing more meditative, menial work and mixing with people with all different types of knowledge and skill will enrich their expert knowledge, not detract from it. Cross-pollination of knowledge is a real thing.
12 hours? Must be playing Commander.
Only when people are running exorbitant amounts of symmetrical boardwipes. Resetting the game tends to make them last forever.
Are you telling me you don’t like my (hypothetical) Child of Alara boardwipes deck?
In actuality, I’m with you. I build my decks so that they’re fun to play, and hopefully fun to play against. A guy at my local store apparently only builds decks that are a slog to play against. Thalia and Gitrog death and taxes, with Winter Orb and fogs to show the game down so he can win with Gates. Norin thievery. Anikthea enchantment lockout, with multiple ways to populate copies of Sphere of Safety and other pillowfort enchantments. You get the idea.
I do get the idea, and I have a deck specifically made to ruin their fun as I have a friend who does the same kinds of things much too often. I built an ‘assist’ deck that’s mostly group hug but also adds in a good amount of combo pieces for everyone.
Need flash? Here’s tidal barracuda.
Need cards? Heartwood storyteller, kami of the Cresent, howling mine, and my personal favorite soldevi sentry is there for you.
Need untaps? Intruder alarm.
Need land? Here’s all the basics you could ever want with avatar of growth, new frontiers, collective voyage, and rites of flourishing.
Im not here for a long time, but it’s going to be a good time. It also heavily rewards bad mana bases with lots of basics.
Not that there is anything wrong with insects.
