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"The world will always need ditch diggers."  This saying, or whatever version you might be familiar with, has been around for as long as we have had modern industry.  As people have moved from primarily farm based activity to jobs in production, we have been constantly striving to move beyond the need for menial labor and into work that satisfies our souls.  Few people are content with the idea that certain people have to do the dirty jobs that most of us avoid, and virtually no one wants to actually do them.  Yet, until we enter into that utopian post-scarcity society where all our hated tasks are automated and work is no longer required, the saying still stands.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://gunthrek.com/2021/09/24/successful-ignorance/