Boxes of Fake Work

Fake Work is partly to blame on time being such an easy container. Good business ideas are when we have a clear ask and a clear offer solving a problem. The ask-offer-problem needs to be put in a box so you can charge. Time is a lazy and easy box. Once the lid is on, you don’t need to know if the ask and offer are clear anymore. There doesn’t even need to be a lid once people get used to buying and selling boxes with fairy dust in them. Especially if the person in the box needs to be in the box to survive. South Africa has structural Great Depression level unemployment. This means there is plenty of Fake Work where we kill people’s time to give them “the dignity of work”. South Africa is not alone. Even in Rich countries, many office jobs have dead periods of time… but the employees aren’t being paid for the work. They are being paid to sit in their box and be busy.

Any old box will do