Lots of jobs have aspects which are hidden, you know the detail’s not much talked about, maybe doesn’t feature in the job description.

Money talks, a person puts on their work hat and earns money doing whatever their job is.

Your job maybe is to serve fuel in a service station, for example. Part of what you get paid for is you become public property (in a way, to an extent), you serve fuel to the public, and at any moment while doing your job you might get terminally ill or drop dead (or get shot even). So you’re paid to be there, when you could be somewhere else, doing something else. A lot of these things don’t just apply to someone working in a service station.

Money and hats talk.

What though of a world, or examples of which you are paid for something else, or in addition to what you do.

Imagine if Centrelink paid people to be philosophers, absurd as it it sounds, indulge me.

What a person gets paid for IMO is very powerful.

But, does it it reveal much truth of how a lot of the world works. Or does it prescribe truths.

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Lots of jobs have aspects which are hidden, you know the detail’s not much talked about, maybe doesn’t feature in the job description.

Money talks, a person puts on their work hat and earns money doing whatever their job is.

Your job maybe is to serve fuel in a service station, for example. Part of what you get paid for is you become public property (in a way, to an extent), you serve fuel to the public, and at any moment while doing your job you might get terminally ill or drop dead (or get shot even). So you’re paid to be there, when you could be somewhere else, doing something else. A lot of these things don’t just apply to someone working in a service station.

Money and hats talk.

What though of a world, or examples of which you are paid for something else, or in addition to what you do.

Imagine if Centrelink paid people to be philosophers, absurd as it it sounds, indulge me.

What a person gets paid for IMO is very powerful.

But, does it it reveal much truth of how a lot of the world works. Or does it prescribe truths.

Its true that Centrelink pays a lot of people to be bogans, but whats that got to do with prison, I know a lot of bogans will end up in prison, it would take a lot of years to make them into philosophers.

>>What a person gets paid for IMO is very powerful.

true

Maybe Centrelink should pay people not to be philosophers.

>Maybe Centrelink should pay people not to be philosophers.

well, choose anything, it’s just a thought experiment.

i’d think there’re aspects to work (ones job) that are in ways invisible (less likely to be detailed or drawn attention to in communications), the money that has you put whatever hat on imposes a hierarchy of explication

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Upton Sinclair

had me a little read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair

> Imagine if Centrelink paid people to be philosophers, absurd as it it sounds, indulge me.

Isn’t that what the age pension is for?