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This is a powerful, deep psychological inhibitor to pursuing change. If you are trying to bring about change, you need to deal with it. | This is a powerful, deep psychological inhibitor to pursuing change. If you are trying to bring about change, you need to deal with it. | ||
In actual fact, it is ''not'' a paradox. Pursuing change will ''not'' get you fired. Pursuing change inoculates you against redundancy, and for those of you who catch it anyway, it boosts your prospects of the next job. | |||
*'''The work is never done''': It is a reductionist canard of the first order that once routine work is automated there will be nothing left to do. If you sort out routine work, ''it makes the machine go faster''. A machine that goes faster finds new things to do. As long as you are a resourceful, flexible person, the more bureaucratic pain you eliminate, the sooner you can get to interesting, knotty problems that need solving. ''Solving interesting knotty problems is fun''. | |||
*'''The work is never done''': There is no finite number of tasks in the world, which, once automated, will no longer reach the threshold of paid employment. It is a [[reductionist]] canard of the first order that once routine work is automated there will be nothing left to do. If you sort out routine work, ''it makes the machine go faster''. A machine that goes faster finds new things to do. As long as you are a resourceful, flexible person, the more bureaucratic pain you eliminate, the sooner you can get to interesting, knotty problems that need solving. ''Solving interesting knotty problems is fun''. | |||
*People who can solve bureaucratic pain and make the machine run faster are like ''gold-dust''. | *People who can solve bureaucratic pain and make the machine run faster are like ''gold-dust''. | ||