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Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.
Rising Strong
Brené Brown
Even judging by Brendan’s and Patrick’s accounts (and I could easily reference many others), I think we can conclude that __from these jobs, students learn at least five things: 1. how to operate under others’ direct supervision; 2. how to pretend to work even when nothing needs to done; 3. that one is not paid money to do things, however useful or important, that one actually enjoys; 4. that one is paid money to do things that are in no way useful or important and that one does not enjoy; and 5. that at least in jobs requiring interaction with the public, even when one is being paid to carry out tasks one does not enjoy, one also has to pretend to be enjoying it.__
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
Labor productivity took off, as farms came to resemble open-air factories. Given the limits to the growth of the demand for agricultural outputs, the sector then shed workers at an incredible pace. __As late as 1950, agriculture employed 24 percent of the workforce in West Germany, 25 percent in France, 42 percent in Japan, and 47 percent in Italy; by 2010, all of these shares were under 5 percent.__
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
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