DO NOTHING, GET PAID FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE

What if you had a job where you didn’t have to do anything. You can watch movies, read books, work on creative projects or just sleep. The only thing that you have to do is clock in and out every day. No, United States Congress, that day isn’t here yet – but it is coming. Starting in 2026, a government-funded conceptual art project in Gothenburg, Sweden will pay someone to do nothing for the rest of their life. The employee will report to Korsvägen, a train station. They punch the time clock which, in turn, illuminates a bank of fluorescent lights over the platform, letting commuters know that they are on the job. At the end of the day, they clock out, and the lights go off. In between, they can do whatever they want, aside from work at another paying job. The pay is $2,300 a month, plus annual wage increases, vacation time off and a pension for retirement. The art project is titled “Eternal Employment,” described as a social experiment and a serious political statement. The artists behind the project will start taking applications in 2025.
* I bet more than a few workers at the Department of Motor Vehicles are chuckling to themselves right now.
* It’s a government-funded art project? Well, that explains why it’s so stupid.
* First thing I’d do is, hook up the lights to a timer.
* This sounds like an episode of the Twilight Zone, and I’m trying to figure out what the twist ending will be. Like that guy who ended up as an exhibit in the alien zoo.
* I bet after a year or so on the job, he gets replaced by a robot.