A good idea? (balancing "empowering" & "disempowering" work activities)

[JanMichael]

Does the following paragraph/concept make sense to you?

“One of the important characteristics of that economic system is "balanced job complexes." That reflects the understanding that it’s not just that certain people have money and certain people don’t that is the essence of inequality in modern capitalism. That’s part of it, that’s a very big part of it, but another difference is that certain people have jobs that are empowering, that cause them, as they perform the jobs, to become more skilled and more competent and more powerful, while other people have jobs that are disempowering, that make them more and more mindless. So if your job is an assembly line worker where your full responsibility is to turn a screw every 4 seconds, the result of that job on you is that it’s going to make you a moron, because you’re not using your brain, you’re not using your capacity. In the economic system proposed everybody has a balanced job complex. That is, you are doing a number of types of activities, some of which are empowering, some of which are disempowering, so that everybody’s average level of empowerment is the same. It doesn’t mean that everybody’s doing the same work – if you’re a nuclear physicist, you might be doing nuclear physics part of the time, but you’d also be doing other stuff that is rote or menial. People who are working in factories would also be doing stuff that involves planning or thinking or using their brains.”

Is it comprehensible? Or even a desirable state of affairs?

It makes sense to me but I know that I’m WAY out in left field when it comes to this sort of concept.

Please comment...

[JanMichael]

1. No Michael, it's too complicated...

I like being superior.

(I'm going to argue with myself now...)

[JanMichael]

2. Bullshit Jan. It's no more complicated than our current system.

As to your imagined superiority? Fuck off.