Do you do a superfluous job?

[Sima]

There are other ways of generating heat.

Such as setting fire to the elderly, which also serves to reduce the drain on resources. Win win.

 

[GK]

Let’s say you were building a society, Sim y City style.
You’re obviously going to start of with the basics, so you need food, power, water, sanitation, construction, engineering, medicine, law enforcement and banking (and probably some more)
Anyone in those industries is important.
But once you move away from those, how many jobs are still important? Do we need Entertainment? Media? Politics? Advertising? Sales?

Where do you draw the line of importance?

If you've got a bank im assuming this is a capitalist society.

We may not need advertising, sales but companies trying to make a wedge do.

We also need leaders, which breeds politics.

We need the news, a town crier or whatever - media

And we need to be entertained

 

[mickeymoor]

Cement... The world would fall apart

The big lie. we had lime before cement us stone mason swear by it for 2000 years we cant be wrong

 

[Frijj]

Intelligence.

If our jobs disappeared it would be a fuck on for those we support directly but it would be a long while before any wheels fell off, if ever.

I consider it more healthcare than intelligence myself since I’ve retained a decent amount of core public health work.

I suppose technically non-health promotion public health is just intelligence, technically...

 

[Discopants91]

I can assure you there's nothing superfluous about marketing a sawdust company.

 

[Frijj]

He works in the photocopier room. He'd be more useful as pig food.

I used to scan things for a living when I worked in admin at university but I’ve since got a masters degree, changed jobs three times and doubled my salary there mate

Hmmmm. That seems somewhat tenuous. Dont you work in policy?

And before ye start my post was tongue in cheek

Me and @Some Random Guy do the exact same job.

 

[Kevj]

I used to scan things for a living when I worked in admin at university but I’ve since got a masters degree, changed jobs three times and doubled my salary there mate


Me and @Some Random Guy do the exact same job.

Well done for getting twice the rate for scanning in documents

 

[Bishop Mackem]

I do phone work (sales, investments, marketing), I cook well and I can upcycle.

You would be absolutely useless

Not sure what cooking and making tat out of tat has to do with it

 

[Ciro_DiMarzio]

Manufacturing. Could just buy everything in from elsewhere I suppose.

 

[Al Bundy]

I have whatever voice you want baby xx

Steady on

 

[Kent_Mackem]

You not read The 3 Little Pigs yet ?

There is another book I think called The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig or something. They use concrete, barbed wire etc and he uses dynamite. My boys love it.

 

[look out piano]

Steady on

 

[Dave Herbal]

Manufacturing. Could just buy everything in from elsewhere I suppose.

Assuming we have another society to buy from. What if we are on Mars?

 

[look out piano]

Basically @Dave Herbal we'd all pull together and make a f***ing good go of it fella

 

[Ciro_DiMarzio]

Assuming we have another society to buy from. What if we are on Mars?

If we're on Mars we won't be driving about in Nissan Quasqais marra.

 

[JAZZMANB]

I've often thought we all just keep each other in jobs
Apart from service industries for housing ,schools etc what's all the rest about

 

[Deleted member 40035]

Entertainment? Media? Politics? Advertising? Sales?

^This is the SMB^

 

[Redandwhitedust]

can't think of many things that don't require us wagon drivers to fetch or take somewhere.
knights of the road

Transport generally I would say was vital, from postmen to train drivers to taxi drivers etc .

Yodel can do one though....

 

[Qwerty]

Let’s say you were building a society, Sim y City style.
You’re obviously going to start of with the basics, so you need food, power, water, sanitation, construction, engineering, medicine, law enforcement and banking (and probably some more)
Anyone in those industries is important.
But once you move away from those, how many jobs are still important? Do we need Entertainment? Media? Politics? Advertising? Sales?

Where do you draw the line of importance?

The people working in food, power, water, sanitation, construction, engineering, medicine,law enforcement and banking are gonna have shit weekends if there's no football.

 

[Skandhaless]

I suppose if we were building society from the ground up you would hope my job (mental health and psychology ) would not be needed in terms of a paid role.
We got away without psychologists for millenia but we did have priests, witch doctors and shaman which I presume most wouldn't want for the brave new world.
If the society is going to be post industrial it's going to be neurotic so I reckon I just scrape into necessary.

I've often thought we all just keep each other in jobs
Apart from service industries for housing ,schools etc what's all the rest about

Greed, created desire and avarice in the main.