If you start from the presumption that jobs are "bullshit", then you end up creating these ludicrously contorted theories. Or, you could start from the obvious

If you start from the presumption that jobs are "bullshit", then you end up creating these ludicrously contorted theories. Or, you could start from the obvious: that the entity paying the money thinks it is buying something of value -- and then, you get sane, sensible theories of economics in which the world makes sense.