I normally like his stuff, but I think he missed a key point this time.
Bullshit jobs aren’t about the uselessness of that work. Most of the useless work we do is critical… for the furtherance of capitalism.
Whole swaths of the planet work 8+ hours a day making products worse than they should be, finding ways to squeeze in advertising, tracking, or schemes to manipulate customers into “upgrading”. We even burn through skilled psychologists, passing them to design advertising that compels children to badger their parents.
This is the sort of work that only needs to exist because capitalism requires it, and that has a huge effect on people’s morale.
If everyone stopped working the entire system would collapse.
Thing is people need to eat so that will never happen
Homelessness would skyrocket because landlords don’t give a fuck.
who would do the work of removing squatters?
That’s still homelessness. Sheltered, but homeless.
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I guess if you do what you love you don’t consider it work, amirite?
If every employee of McDonald’s just didn’t show up to work for like a day the whole economy would collapse.
It wouldn’t, it already happened during covid and everything was fine.
There are more essential jobs than fast food. Any jobs related to keeping the power grid working, hospitals, and other emergency and transportation for food would have a frater impact.
Imagine a city with no power and no food, chaos would ensure in less than a week.
TL;DR tell me you didn’t watch the video without telling me you didn’t
Of course I didn’t watch it, it’s a fucking video. Text summary or GTFO.
Amen. Fuck YouTube
Try this https://www.youtubedigest.app/ it generates a summary of any video with subtitles
