I'd take another angle to why I generally look down on "useless jobs," as just another worrying trend. As is oft cited here, we're rapidly reaching a point wh

I'd take another angle to why I generally look down on "useless jobs," as just another worrying trend. As is oft cited here, we're rapidly reaching a point where the basic needs of all people could be served by a vast minority of the populous, and there is a wide array of options that can be taken to still ensure everyone can support themselves. One of these options is "useless jobs", build out the job market so that everyone can still work for their pay. As you say, your goal is to be comfortable in your other space, but in the above trend, the fact that you MUST chose the other space from within a potentially limited set, and then conform to whatever constraints it demands on you, should demonstrate why I think "useless jobs" are a worrying outcome compared to alternatives such as a global minimum wage, such that you can truly chose your other space freely, as well as what you fill the time there with. To bring this tangent back to the point, if useless jobs become the norm, and we continue a society that puts the emphasis on _jobbing_ and not enabling each person to live their life however they wish, I worry the more Utopian outcome is an impossibility.