hyperemployment

(*) Accelerating inflation can indeed be the outcome of a Wild Bill Vickrey final solution to job scarcity, if you cure our ills by using giant fiscal deficits backed by bank credit to drive us to hyperemployment.

Stop Me Before I Vote Again 2010

And quite apart from one’s paid toil, there’s been an increase in social work—all the messaging and posts and social media garden-tending that the philosopher and technologist Ian Bogost calls “hyperemployment.”

Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t Condé Nast 2021

Hyperemployment is an idea, advanced by Ian Bogost, which links contemporary technological developments with a qualitative and quantitative change in personal workloads. His argument is that technology – far from acting in a labour-saving capacity – is in fact generative of ever more tasks and responsibilities.

Technically Female: Women, Machines, and Hyperemployment - Salvage Helen Hester 2022

When we take our own blood pressure at the doctors, or issue our own books at the library, or check out our own groceries – when we perform any of these newly individualized tasks, which would once have been undertaken by paid workers – all of this testifies to a state of hyperemployment.

Technically Female: Women, Machines, and Hyperemployment - Salvage Helen Hester 2022