Household cleaning is the toughest job I have ever done. It should not exist.

  • NovaPrime@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Normally I'm not one to tear down the creative output of others, but articles like this make it very hard to not do so. It reads like a barely-cohesive list of tangents loosely tied together with a poor attempt at a "lesson," but lacks any substance or voice. What is it trying to say? Even the author doesn't seem to know, beyond waxing poetic (poorly, I might add) about how difficult it is to have a job and how our individual consumerism is creating a class of "undesirable" jobs that can otherwise be eliminated with just a little more mindfulness and self-reliance...I think? Maybe?

    At its core though, this to me reads as a poor attempt at defending the wealth class and shifting the burden of responsibility to the individual. Nowhere is there a discussion about the actual issue with CEOs in society (hint: it's not because they exist or don't have a "tough" job, but because the wages and compensation are grossly and wildly out of sync with the product of their indovidual labor), or a discussion about what the author learned in the course of their one week playing housekeeper dress up and how it relates to CEOs in any way? Instead it reads as a privileged teen's incoherent ramblings about that one week they played grown up, while simultaneously testing various blogging and SEO strategies (all the unnecessary links, formatting...etc), all tied together (poorly) with an attempt to set it in the foreground of "conscientious" hot topics like labor, effects of rampant consumerism in modern society, class consciousness, and environmentalism...

    • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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      10 months ago

      Agreed. And the thesaurus abuse leads to a plethora of supercilious inscrutabilities.

      But if I had any advice for the author, it wouldn’t be writing lessons, it would be to keep cleaning people’s houses until he learns to value simple labor.

      While dirty jobs are dirty, they can be meditative, especially in service of “people who haven't been dealt the best of cards.”

      But the author missed that opportunity this time, meditating only on his own personal misfortune of being reduced to such lowly work as household cleaning, which “should not exist” (??) for that reason.

      Honestly I just felt bad for the people cleaning up after this guy his whole life. Apparently he never noticed them.