Are you saying that the tedium itself is engineered to be present? I mean, the work is definitely not pointless. It is as pointed as it gets, as significant as a miner in a mine, a farmer in the field. Monotonous, tedious, yes. Pointless? No.
Now, the idea that the tedium is engineered in would be interesting. That would suggest it could be engineered out. Which is very interesting. You solve that problem, I submit there are some HR folks who would like your contact info.
No I don’t it’s intentional. I suppose I should have written “pointless, tedious” instead.
I’m not sure how I would compare it to traditional blue collar low skilled labor jobs. Farm hand work, for instance, in addition to being physically difficult, is also surprisingly tedious contrary to what some people may imagine. But I think it is easier to understand why it is important work. If you don’t pick the berries, the berries die and nobody gets to eat them. If you’re a machine learning data labeler, you may believe that it’s creating a path to super intelligent computers. Or you may believe it’s a big waste of time. My acquaintances who did Alexa data labeling tended to lean towards the latter.
Are you saying that the tedium itself is engineered to be present? I mean, the work is definitely not pointless. It is as pointed as it gets, as significant as a miner in a mine, a farmer in the field. Monotonous, tedious, yes. Pointless? No.
Now, the idea that the tedium is engineered in would be interesting. That would suggest it could be engineered out. Which is very interesting. You solve that problem, I submit there are some HR folks who would like your contact info.