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Online job Boards Prove Humans can be Even Lazier

posted by martyb on Thursday January 24 2019, @01:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the Hit-rock-bottom-and-keep-digging-dept dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

You know how it is, it's a Saturday so you go out into the garden for a quick interface with nature before the next 10 hr Fortnite / Netflix combo binge to find your dog has left numerous piles of digested food all over the place. What do you do? Get online to AirTasker to post a job requesting someone come over to pick up the shit. Yes, seriously, that's what they do these days when help is just a click away. Need a pack of ciggies but are "too unwell" to go get them for yourself? Airtasker! Need a couple of vibrators in a hurry? Yep, someone on there will help you. For a price. Just when we thought with Facebook that humanity had hit rock bottom. How low can we go?

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:07PM (1 child)

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:07PM (#791338) Homepage Journal

    If only someone could gather a listing of the local companies, and deliver it to your doorstep at least once a year, you wouldn't have to open a browser ever !
    I suspect that would be a fairly big book. But maybe advertising could pay for it, and it could get recycled as a fire started, shooting target, or maybe even something to prop things up?

    Nah, it will never work.

    Very good. They used to leave stacks of them in the vestibule of my building, but it's been at least ten years since they did that.

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  • (Score: 2) by SunTzuWarmaster on Friday January 25 2019, @01:41PM

    by SunTzuWarmaster (3971) on Friday January 25 2019, @01:41PM (#791713)

    I sometimes think of the mobile/pre-mobile world.

    This morning, I got up, read the newspaper on the toilet. I then took some of the papers from my outbox, rifled through them, and composed a memorandum to a colleague. I then put on some records for my progeny to enjoy while dressing.

    The "book of local service providers, supported by ads" business model went *directly* to the internet without modification.