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I kinda thought the original article was BS. After all, who is more likely to be an authority about whether a job is useless or not: the person willing to spen
by zeveb 6y ago
I kinda thought the original article was BS. After all, who is more likely to be an authority about whether a job is useless or not: the person willing to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for it to be done, or some writer?
OTOH, I think there are jobs which could be removed, but the explanation for their existence is far more boring than some great conspiracy to create BS jobs: it's just path-dependency.
- igammarays 6y agoThe businesses willing to spend tens or hundreds of thousands dollars for these bullshit jobs to be done are usually massive faceless corporations where the incentives are far more complicated than you think - and many of them are fed by the government money printer. See many of the corporations bailed out in 2008. Also, anyone in technology who has worked in the IT department of a non-Valley company knows how much utter stupidity and bullshit is wasted on IT simply because no one understands how to do it properly. Silicon Valley startups are far more efficient at IT and have fewer bullshit jobs, but their mission is often to attract more and more VC money to get acquired by some faceless corporation, or IPO to become a monopolistic rent-seeker. So they’re extremely efficient at working towards their bullshit end-goal.