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What if you thought your RV life was adventuresome, fun, and cool and some book came out...
... that "reveal[ed]" your way of life to be "dark, depressing and sometimes physically painful"?MarketWatch interviews journalist Jessica Bruder about her book "Nomadland":
The “workamper” jobs range from helping harvest sugar beets to flipping burgers at baseball spring training games to Amazon’s “CamperForce,” seasonal employees who can walk the equivalent of 15 miles a day during Christmas season pulling items off warehouse shelves and then returning to frigid campgrounds at night.... Few have chosen this life. Few think they can find a way out of it. They’re downwardly mobile older Americans in mobile homes.Yeah, but what if you are someone who's chosen this life and loved the chance to see the spring training games? You're like a Dead Head of baseball, making enough money on the side to keep following your passion, hanging out with other people who love baseball, not taking the work seriously. Boy, do you look stupid now! You're not living a great life. Bruder's got news for you. You are pitiable and downtrodden! Suffer now, doing all the things you'd once imagined were enviable.
What if you thought getting paid for walking 15 miles a day was great, like getting paid for hiking the Appalachian Trail? You are so dumb!
Excerpt from the interview:
Some of the Nomads had to work alongside robots, such as in the Amazon warehouses. How was that?But the seasonal workers don't drive the robots "bonkers," and the robots never need a break, and if they did need to be programmed to take detours to the break room, they'd never find it "insane."
The robots were making them bonkers. This is isolating work and there’s one scene in the book where a robot kept bringing a woman in her 70s the same thing to count.
What needs to change to prevent people from having to become Nomads or to help them live better if they are?
For one thing, Amazon should pay its workers more and give them better working conditions. It’s laughable that the workers get a 15-minute break when they have to spend it walking to the break room. It’s completely insane.
Maybe all the work (or all the crazy-making work) should be done by robots, and I have no quarrel with the perennial calls for better wages and working conditions, but is this warehouse work really so horrible? Aren't there some people who like it and like the seasonality of what they can get — and so easily — with CamperForce?
Perhaps all jobs could be described in words that would move readers to say oh, those poor, desperate people. A journalist can, in words, find what she wants to find.
But is it really there? I don't know. Many times on this blog, I have questioned whether human beings really love a life full of travel. It seems like mass delusion to me, but I have been willing to believe that there are many people who prefer to be free of a permanent home base and out in the world on wheels and fancy-free. If they work their way through this experience, are they less happy than the people who work at home 95% of their time, piling up enough money to blow as they spend 5% of their time getting in and out of airports and hotels and, at long last, traveling? What are those permanent-home-based lives like? I'm sure plenty of that is driving people bonkers.
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... that "reveal[ed]" your way of life to be "dark, depressing and sometimes physically painful"?
MarketWatch interviews journalist Jessica Bruder about her book "Nomadland":
What if you thought getting paid for walking 15 miles a day was great, like getting paid for hiking the Appalachian Trail? You are so dumb!
Excerpt from the interview:
Maybe all the work (or all the crazy-making work) should be done by robots, and I have no quarrel with the perennial calls for better wages and working conditions, but is this warehouse work really so horrible? Aren't there some people who like it and like the seasonality of what they can get — and so easily — with CamperForce?
Perhaps all jobs could be described in words that would move readers to say oh, those poor, desperate people. A journalist can, in words, find what she wants to find.
But is it really there? I don't know. Many times on this blog, I have questioned whether human beings really love a life full of travel. It seems like mass delusion to me, but I have been willing to believe that there are many people who prefer to be free of a permanent home base and out in the world on wheels and fancy-free. If they work their way through this experience, are they less happy than the people who work at home 95% of their time, piling up enough money to blow as they spend 5% of their time getting in and out of airports and hotels and, at long last, traveling? What are those permanent-home-based lives like? I'm sure plenty of that is driving people bonkers.
MarketWatch interviews journalist Jessica Bruder about her book "Nomadland":
The “workamper” jobs range from helping harvest sugar beets to flipping burgers at baseball spring training games to Amazon’s “CamperForce,” seasonal employees who can walk the equivalent of 15 miles a day during Christmas season pulling items off warehouse shelves and then returning to frigid campgrounds at night.... Few have chosen this life. Few think they can find a way out of it. They’re downwardly mobile older Americans in mobile homes.Yeah, but what if you are someone who's chosen this life and loved the chance to see the spring training games? You're like a Dead Head of baseball, making enough money on the side to keep following your passion, hanging out with other people who love baseball, not taking the work seriously. Boy, do you look stupid now! You're not living a great life. Bruder's got news for you. You are pitiable and downtrodden! Suffer now, doing all the things you'd once imagined were enviable.
What if you thought getting paid for walking 15 miles a day was great, like getting paid for hiking the Appalachian Trail? You are so dumb!
Excerpt from the interview:
Some of the Nomads had to work alongside robots, such as in the Amazon warehouses. How was that?But the seasonal workers don't drive the robots "bonkers," and the robots never need a break, and if they did need to be programmed to take detours to the break room, they'd never find it "insane."
The robots were making them bonkers. This is isolating work and there’s one scene in the book where a robot kept bringing a woman in her 70s the same thing to count.
What needs to change to prevent people from having to become Nomads or to help them live better if they are?
For one thing, Amazon should pay its workers more and give them better working conditions. It’s laughable that the workers get a 15-minute break when they have to spend it walking to the break room. It’s completely insane.
Maybe all the work (or all the crazy-making work) should be done by robots, and I have no quarrel with the perennial calls for better wages and working conditions, but is this warehouse work really so horrible? Aren't there some people who like it and like the seasonality of what they can get — and so easily — with CamperForce?
Perhaps all jobs could be described in words that would move readers to say oh, those poor, desperate people. A journalist can, in words, find what she wants to find.
But is it really there? I don't know. Many times on this blog, I have questioned whether human beings really love a life full of travel. It seems like mass delusion to me, but I have been willing to believe that there are many people who prefer to be free of a permanent home base and out in the world on wheels and fancy-free. If they work their way through this experience, are they less happy than the people who work at home 95% of their time, piling up enough money to blow as they spend 5% of their time getting in and out of airports and hotels and, at long last, traveling? What are those permanent-home-based lives like? I'm sure plenty of that is driving people bonkers.
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