alt Hacker News> What’s the point in generating writing … if it gives next to zero feelings of accomplishment?
Getting promoted, getting a better job, generating sales leads, things of that nature. A depressing number of blogs or LinkedIn posts exist only because the author is under some vague belief that it’s part of what they’re supposed to be doing to get ahead in their career.
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This clearly was not what GP was talking about. Believe it or not, not all people do things for purely cynical reasons.
I think somewhere along the way something has gone terribly wrong in the way we allocate capital to incentivize behavior. Somehow as a society we incentivize (aka distribute capital to) the people who educate our next generation and the people who care for our elders less than the people who smoke weed on podcasts and talk for hours into a camera or a microphone…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs