alt Hacker News> It doesn't seem to be all that useful for real, productive work.
Even the most pointless bullshit job accomplishes a societal function by transferring wages from a likely wealthy large corporation to a individual worker who has bills to pay.
Eliminating bullshit jobs might be good from an economic efficiency perspective, but people still gotta eat.
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DennisP • today at 2:46 AM
If the only point is distributing money, then the pointless bullshit job is an unnecessary complication.
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The logic of American economic policy relies on a large velocity of money driven by consumer habits. It is tautological, and it is obsolete in the face of the elite trying to minimize wage expenses.