What Is So Wrong With The Way We Do Things Today?

The current state of white collar work is not sustainable. We waste time in traffic driving to work and create pollution problems with our cars. You hear a lot of people talk about alternative energies due to the pollution caused by oil in general and cars in particular.  But, you don't hear anyone suggesting that we just drive a lot less by giving up this antiquated notion of driving to work so you can be where the action is. Certainly working in virtual worlds provides an alternative to driving to work and that alone might be enough incentive to change the way we do things. But there are more reasons.

Today most people in white collar work do not know what they actually do. Through some sort of indoctrination they learned the rituals of their employing entity. But, how are those rituals connected to the value created by the entity and how are the efforts of individuals connected to that aggregate value? Nobody knows. It will be hard to explain to our grand kids that back in the beginning of the 21st century we got paid for showing up rather than for productivity and that showing up had serious costs in terms of both productivity losses and pollution problems.

We might also try to explain how we did not always have the best person doing each job and people did not enjoy their jobs nearly as much as they should. Or maybe we will just be so embarrassed by how things are done today that we might decide not to even bring it up.

I am going to take a break for a while from writing this blog. I have a seriously difficult philosophical paper to write and I need to concentrate on it. I will return when I am rested, recovered, and full of exciting new ideas once again.