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I think this dovetails nicely with Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" [0] thesis. From the Wikipedia entry, it looks like 37% of Britons polled thought their jobs were "

I think this dovetails nicely with Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" [0] thesis. From the Wikipedia entry, it looks like 37% of Britons polled thought their jobs were "bullshit", with the HVB article talking about an excess management of around 17%. I wonder how much overhead is "natural/health" and whether the amount of "bullshit" jobs is related to a "full employment" mentality, maybe even subsidized by the government. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

myshpa 4y ago
> 37% of Britons polled thought their jobs were "bullshit" I've seen numbers as high as 70%+. Not everybody is ready to acknowledge that his/her work is meaningless. If that's true, nothing would change if 3/4 of the workforce stopped working tomorrow. And iff that's true (and I strongly suspect it is), than the basic income is the only logical outcome (imho).
astrange 4y ago
Polling doesn't necessarily find you the truth here. It's like when you poll business owners in California and they say it's a bad environment for business, by which they mean they want lower taxes, not that somewhere else would actually get them more customers.