[Journal] Specialization and Alienation at Work

Yes, as we all know, in today's industrial capitalistic society, the degree of segregation between different jobs intensifies. More and more workers specialize in certain tasks, they do those tasks repeatedly everyday. Consequently, some of them often feel alienated and isolated.

Today, I repeatedly edited the fonts, colors of slides, and repeatedly edited the sound files in accordance to the slides, then combine the slides and sounds together. I do the same action again and again, within one or two weeks, anyone can be a master dealing with this task. I feel like a cheap labor. Can't they just invent a machine and take care of all these editing?

I'm in part of the process of publishing books, audio cds, but I can't decide the theme of the material, can't write the articles in the book, can't even decide who should be the models in the pictures. The society decided the direction we go, and ironically we all think some one else decided it. But in the end no one is satisfied with the result, and no one takes the responsibility of reforming a new way of constructing the so called society.

Anyways. I'm so like a robot every day in the office. A robot might even be cheaper and more conformable than me. So why shouldn't we spend some time and stop to think, if the trend of specialization keeps going on, what can we also do to minimize its weakness, a.k.a. boring, whilst maintain its strength, a.k.a. easy to substitute?