This was a fun read, and I've worked enough jobs to where this just felt like someone was stalking me. Every job I've had has always felt like they're taking m

This was a fun read, and I've worked enough jobs to where this just felt like someone was stalking me. Every job I've had has always felt like they're taking more than my time and energy: they take my "life force", as it were. A job can really drain you, especially since as the article says, a lot of jobs are just busywork. A corporation is a machine whose goal is to spend money, and sometimes make money back too. The massive layoffs in 2022 and 2023 in the tech world sort of exemplify this. The big tech companies had money, so they have to spend it, and the easiest way to spend money is to hire people. Whether or not they're "necessary" isn't the point, the point is that you need to do something with the money. When the money dried up, suddenly they have tens of thousands of people whose jobs really were not necessary and so they have to fire a bunch of them. It's terrible, but it's basically the backbone of our economy, so I don't even know that it can be fixed.