Prophecies 4 the Future of Work – Prophecy 3

ABOUTINTRO

Your Future is Bright!
You will experience transformations that will revolutionize your life forever!

LOVE
Your heart is in the right place to start a new passionate love affair; this time with revolution. You will fall in love with mind-blowing liberating ideas and your near future will be filled with protest, dissent and solidarity. While personal love affairs amongst all genders will be thriving in on- and off- line protest sites, you will feel the exhilaration of adding your voice to those of other ( no-longer) silent workers. Don’t be afraid to express anger and demand change.

FAMILY & CARE
You’ve spent years caught between 2 streams: your work and your life. You tried everything to reduce  stress levels but gave up. You thought you were programed to always chose work over your leisure, your community, your friends, your sleep, the care of your children or elderly relatives. But don’t be afraid, you will not have to face such dilemmas anymore. It is the right time to try something new, to experiment, to start anew: the stars are right to demand that your personal life, domestic and caring work be recognized and valued. Take the risk and you will be rewarded. Work together with other silent workers across the world to get what you deserve, including paid leaves, social security, health coverage, stability, dissent payment, relaxed vacations, and quality time spent with children, partners, friends and relatives. The future looks promising: soon you will find yourself living in a safe, mutually supporting and caring environment.  

HEALTH
A bold stranger will come in your dreams to haunt you. He will appear rich, successful and ruthlessly happy. His bright simle will be that of an entrepreneur running a huge digital platform, his skin and his teeth will be clean and his eyes bright. But let’s face it: you are not this bold guy and you will never be. Digital entrepreneurship is not the same for you, indeed it is as bad for your health as it is for your sanity. Relax and take care of yourself, sleep more, spend time outdoors, and work no more than eight hours per day. You will never become the bold successful type. Most importantly,  spend all your energy on organizing collective platforms, protests and demonstration in solidarity with other digital workers around the world. Rather than worrying about precarity on your own, become part of a movement. Stop dreaming of becoming like the bold stranger and start thinking how you can work with your peers to sabotage him and his kind.

WORK & MONEY
Tired with the every-day struggles of doing digital work locked inside the privacy of your own home? You do not need to disappear any longer because the change you’ve been expecting for so long is down the corner. Let others dream of becoming billionaire entrepreneurs inventing new smashing hit apps or opening successful startups. Take your chances with platform cooperativism, and you will not regret it: your skills will be put to good use and work will become once again satisfying, subversive and interesting. Designing and using platforms produced collectively and collaboratively might not make you filthy rich, but you will get rid of the meaningless repetitive tasks that froze your inventiveness and freedom. Make sure to forget customer ratings. In this new path, you will not need them to prove your worth. Satisfy your needs and ask for your work to be valued for all its worth.  Plan for many digital sabotages ahead and think of work as a way to live life not as an obstcale stopping you from living life to a full.

CONNECTION TO THE PAST
In the past, your work was invisible to your employers who kept harassing you and threatening with termination. A new period of light starts when you and your peers will be silent no more. You will be able to tell everything and you will hide in the shadows no more. Your employers will no longer be able to harass you and only appear as long- forgotten ghost in your nightmares. Don’t be afraid to work with peers, to bring the truth into light, get rid of ratings, hack the algorithm and live life to the full. From now on your computational labour will no longer be invisible!


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