I've wrote down some thoughts on possible economics of "bullshit jobs" here: http://250bpm.com/blog:44 http://250bpm.com/blog:44 Here's the relevant part of it

I've wrote down some thoughts on possible economics of "bullshit jobs" here: http://250bpm.com/blog:44 http://250bpm.com/blog:44 Here's the relevant part of it: "Can we do the same trick here and stop thinking about competing firms and rather start thinking about competing individuals? After all, firm isn't a person and can't really strive to maximise profits. Only people can. And when you look at the problem from the point of view of a rational individual, the situation is pretty clear: I need to work to feed myself and my family. If only 50% of population is needed to do all the necessary work, I have to cope with that. I have to accept a meaningless work if that's all I can get. If it's necessary to keep the work, I have to pretend and lie and cheat and support the whole edifice of bullshit work. Damn, I even have to beg, bribe and blackmail others to create a new bullshit position for me, if I can't get an existing one. So, in the end, large portion of the population, from CEOs to the lowliest interns, are trapped in bullshit jobs and none of them can really speak against it as they are all complicit and the only alternative they have is having no job and starving."