David Graeber has a long book on this, called "Bullshit Jobs". It turns out many of those people do think _their own_ job is useless and could effectively be re

David Graeber has a long book on this, called "Bullshit Jobs". It turns out many of those people do think _their own_ job is useless and could effectively be removed with no impact. In the book he offers some numbers on the healthcare system in the US, where in administration and insurance there are indeed many such bullshit jobs. What is worse, they often bring a bureaucratic burden on people like nurses, who do have real work to do. (All by the assessment of the people doing the bullshit job) He offers quotes to show this was even the point of view of Obama > Everybody who supports single-payer health care says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork,’ ” the former President noted. “That represents one million, two million, three million jobs.” Graeber describes this comment as a “smoking gun” of bullshittization. “Here is the most powerful man in the world at the time publicly reflecting on his signature legislative achievement—and he is insisting that a major factor in the form that legislature took is the preservation of bullshit jobs,” he writes. Politicians are so fixated on job creation, he thinks, that no one wonders which jobs are created, and whether they are necessary. Unnecessary employment may be one of the great legacies of recent public-private collaboration.