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The real pressing question is who is in the sausage though.

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The other pig that went to the market.

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You where today years old when you realised he wasn’t picking up groceries.

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My copy of the book literally has the pig going to the market, and looking at stalls in the illustration. Therefore I defend my ignorance.

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That fucker Neil.

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Horses

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i can see it: The piggy that sat all day on the PC

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It depends. Do you edit videos for pragerU? Or you do something more useful for society like PornHub?

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PorkHub

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So as a film editor…my job is bullshit?

Well, if you can’t imagine a pig wearing clothes doing your job, then yes!

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Art is bullshit now?

Any non-pig art.

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What’s up with your imagination that you cannot imagine a pig artist in a children’s book?

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They’re an editor for a reason damnit.

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I mean, can you or can you not picture your job being done by a pig wearing clothes in a children’s book?

Because I can picture a pig with a boater hat and round glasses carrying a pile of half-unspooled film reels, a pair of safety scissors and a roll of tape on their belt.

And before you complain about it being an old-fashioned depiction, the OOP isn’t exactly how a modern butcher works either.

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Plenty of us look a lot like that, though

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this has severe conservative energy. the fuck is this even supposed to mean? if you’re paid for it, it’s a job, dumbass. that’s literally the only metric.

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But what does it even gate keep against…?

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There are lots of things you wouldn’t see in a children’s book

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I think it’s alluding to the theory set out in this book:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

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well at least this is a more specific take and, apart from duct tapers, seems roughly sensible in what it’s trying to say, if i understood correctly from my cursory glance, that jobs should be more fulfilling than making the elite feel better.

but the tweet is doing a very bad job if this is really what they’re alluding to. the tweet’s framing is more similar to reactionary rhetoric against sex work, entertainment and art, clean jobs, and basically anything that’s not coal mining.

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reactionary rhetoric against sex work

Oh, I can definitely see an animal doing sex work in a… Not-children’s book. I think that’s the whole idea behind furries.

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I think it’s trying to say that intellectual jobs are not jobs. Which is demonstrably not true.

If all the investment bankers went away we’d probably be fine but if all the cyber security experts went away there’d be a big problem. The job is labour intensive, but one of them is much less important than the other.

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Understood. Time to make a living by butchering my own kind and turning them into sausages.

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Now hold on there Sweeney Todd

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Only if they’re rich. There’s nothing criminal about grinding the ultra-rich into sausages.

Warning: this is not literally true.

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By the time you’ve worked out avoiding repercussions from the ultra-rich for grinding up their friends, legality has lost any influence over your actions.

Can’t be criminalized if you are never caught. Oh, and those repercussions from the ultra-rich would probably come with having the whole story burried. Can’t have the poors getting ideas.

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You probably can in the US, they have no food standards laws.

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you might be a lot less stressed if you stopped caring so much about what randos on the internet think about your job

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The weird thing is, my mind also immediately went for “pig in front of computer”, but until this comment chain I didn’t even notice the picture in my head defaulted to the pig stressed out and surrounded by empty cups of coffee.

Shit.

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For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not “reform work” but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.

To save the world, we’re going to have to stop working! — David Graeber

A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. …the love of work… Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx

In the glorification of ‘work’, in the unwearied talk of the ‘blessing of work’, I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland

The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to survive is tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this. ― CrimethInc

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