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People make more money working a shit job than they make when they're unemployed. People endure dehumanizing shit jobs because they have mouths to feed. Unemplo
by VoodooJuJu 3y ago
People make more money working a shit job than they make when they're unemployed. People endure dehumanizing shit jobs because they have mouths to feed. Unemployment doesn't feed mouths.
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>Should these impossibly rote and dehumanizing kinds of jobs exist, or shouldn't they?
It'd be nice if they didn't, but things just have to get done sometimes, rote, dehumanizing, or otherwise.
I don't think bullshit jobs should exist, but people keep paying money to do them, and people who take these jobs do so because they have mouths to feed.
I think callcenter jobs are bullshit jobs. But how else can people feed mouths?
So many people, so few jobs, but so much to consoom, so we invent bullshit jobs for them, lest people stop consooming, god forbid.
- SoftTalker 3y agoIf the callcenter operators thought they were bullshit jobs, they would not be hiring people to work them. Callcenters make money, so on some sense they are not bullshit jobs. A bullshit job is more of a corporate office job that looks legitimate on the surface but the person does nothing of any value and the job really only exists because some manager didn't want to reduce his number of direct reports.
- gmerc 3y agoThis. Anyone who does not understand this needs to check privilege.
- birdyrooster 3y agoIf everyone listened to PC, there'd be no janitors because no one would clean shit up if they had a million dollars.
- bonniemuffin 3y agoIt feels like we could cut out the middleman by giving people money for doing nothing, and letting the robots do the dehumanizing jobs. I'm not sure why people think it's morally superior to force people to do useless stuff to get the money.