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Is your job bullshit?

I mean this in the sense of David Graeber's book “Bullshit Jobs.” Does your job consist of pointless meetings, emails, rebuilding programs in software X in software Y? Would the world, and perhaps even the company in some cases, roll happily on without your job? I ask because _my_ job is definitely bullshit, and it really feels like 20+% of jobs in the economy are fake or even actively destructive. But it also sounds like a lot of this sub do practical jobs, preparing food, driving delivery. It seems like the BS jobs could be abolished to raise wages on real jobs…


I mean this in the sense of David Graeber's book “Bullshit Jobs.” Does your job consist of pointless meetings, emails, rebuilding programs in software X in software Y? Would the world, and perhaps even the company in some cases, roll happily on without your job?

I ask because _my_ job is definitely bullshit, and it really feels like 20+% of jobs in the economy are fake or even actively destructive.

But it also sounds like a lot of this sub do practical jobs, preparing food, driving delivery. It seems like the BS jobs could be abolished to raise wages on real jobs…

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