Dead Jobs: Don't Take It Personal catalogues extinct professions — real and almost-real — to ask what it means when a job, and the world that needed it, quietly disappears from collective memory.
About This Book
As AI, automation, and optimisation continue to reshape labour and society, Dead Jobs approaches the question of technological displacement from an unexpected angle: through the lens of professions that have already vanished. Part speculative fiction, part darkly comic inventory, this slim booklet from Happy Potato Press assembles a catalogue of lost occupations — each one a small archaeology of the world that once sustained it. The writing is sharp and observational, alive to the absurdity of progress and the quiet grief of obsolescence. It raises the uncomfortable question of what comes after car mechanics, visionaries, or human beings themselves. For readers drawn to dry humour, quiet dystopias, and the sociology of work.
Key Features
- 62 pages of darkly comic, catalogue-format prose exploring real and speculative extinct professions
- Published by Happy Potato Press, ISBN: 9789083347783
What You'll Discover
- How extinct professions function as cultural fossils — each disappearance revealing something about the society that created and then discarded it
- A speculative extension of real labour history into near-future scenarios involving AI and automation
- The relationship between technological optimisation and collective forgetting — what we lose when a job ceases to exist
- A dry, comedic voice that holds together genuine social critique and speculative fiction within a compact, accessible format
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 62
- Dimensions: 13 x 20 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789083347783
- Publisher: Happy Potato Press
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Designers, architects, and thinkers grappling with automation and the future of labour; fans of speculative fiction, dry social commentary, and compact, idea-dense reading.