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You’re absolutely right. David Graeber’s “Bullshit Jobs” is a good take on this if one wants to start reading into it.

• astrange 3y ago
  It seems to be that "bullshit jobs" isn't actually a good position for a leftist to take. You're basically saying workers don't do anything useful. Even a more thought out form doesn't do anything class analysis didn't already do.
  • loup-vaillant 3y ago
    > You're basically saying workers don't do anything useful. Not quite: bullshit jobs are when the workers themselves say their own job isn't doing anything useful. And apparently they comprise a sizeable portion of all workforce. Of course, jobs people say are useless, jobs the workers themselves say are useless, and actually useless jobs, are 3 different sets. But I think we can confidently say something is wrong when so many workers say their own job is useless, even if they aren't: working a job you think is useless just isn't healthy.
    • astrange 3y ago
      This is what is known as "cope", ie, they don't feel emotionally satisfied. Americans in particular always have pretty narcissistic ideas about what their jobs should be. You can see this from all the examples of hippies trying to start communes, which then fail because everyone appoints themselves official poet instead of farmworker.
      • loup-vaillant 3y ago
        > This is what is known as "cope", ie, they don't feel emotionally satisfied. Yeah, I'm gonna need a citation for that one.