/lit/ - Literature

>>18355894
>What's the difference between someone who knows everything about Game of Thrones lore and someone who knows everything about the industrial output of the Ottoman empire during WW1?

Vast amounts of onions.

Looking for technophile writers to disagree with
t. Jacques Ellul fag

CS Lewis and P. G. Wodehouse

>>16088423
Sorry, my mistake in failing to clarify. In the literature, abstract roles refer to occupations that are high in complex 'abstract' tasks i.e. tasks that require a high degree of cognitive ability. Abstract is a euphemism for high-skill. By that definition, sales and marketing executives are indeed complex abstract roles, since what they do cannot easily be broken down into routine task inputs and fed into a computer. On the other hand, there are a great deal of executives that have jobs high in routine-task inputs. One popular critique of such lame occupations is Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber.
Massage artists, along with other lowly service jobs, will indeed form the bulk of employment for low-skill individuals.
The literature postulates that job polarization due to RBTC is trending towards an economy where two types of jobs predominate: high-skill complex abstract roles; and low-skill manual service occupations.