Most jobs are bullshit jobs [1]. How automation could work: we have to work less because automation decreass the amount of work done. Everybody has a greater q

Most jobs are bullshit jobs [1]. How automation could work: we have to work less because automation decreass the amount of work done. Everybody has a greater quality of life. How automation actually works: we fire half the staff and use that to suppress wages of those remaining ("you might be next", "you can be replaced"), increase the amount of work each person has to do and move the costs of the unemployed onto the state. For slightly higher profits. So "bullshit jobs" are both a way of a company protecting itself (like in Google's case, by having people avilable) and society protecting itself where people create BS jobs because they may have a bS job themselves or may have one someday. This is going to reach a breaking point in the future and it's long been predicted that at some point we'll only need 20% of people to do the work. It's really shortsighted too because companies will have no one to sell to if no one earns enough to afford what they sell. But this system has no long-term planning. It's all a series of short-term local decisioning-making where we cut labor costs 20% to increase profits by 1%. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs