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The reason for it is because the vast majority of jobs college people get are bullshit jobs. I blame capitalism and it's tendency to create useless positions i
by mempko 10y ago
The reason for it is because the vast majority of jobs college people get are bullshit jobs.
I blame capitalism and it's tendency to create useless positions in hierarchical organizations.
If you think the gov makes all the useless and pointless paper pushing jobs, you have never been in a large company.
In fact, market capitalism creates all kinds of pointless soul sucking jobs like lawyers, police, and insurance brokers. This is because nobody trusts each other.
You can blame gov regulation, except most regulation is written by lobbyists for mega corps
- Jimmy 10y agoI said "intellectually intensive", not "meaningful". The majority of people throughout history worked manual labor jobs that weren't intellectually intensive, but they were often quite necessary. >If you think the gov makes all the useless and pointless paper pushing jobs, you have never been in a large company. I'm currently employed at a large company doing mostly pointless work, so I'm not sure where you got this assumption from.
- mempko 10y agoIn Adam Smith's wealth of nations he talks about division of labor and how it makes people "as stupid as a creature can be". I would argue the work a farmer and people in tribal societies do is more intellectually stimulating and varied than in the modern world. Unless for a select few engineering jobs, we mostly damn people to do the same narrow set of tasks every day. Also about the gov bit. I was talking to the larger HN readers than just you. Sounds like you know exactly what I am talking about.