Who doesn't?
To me your MAGA hat is the height of the profane.
To you your MAGA hat has the sacred luminance of the king — ZzzoneiroCosm
There's nothing sacred about the MAGA hat I don't own. — Hanover
Because people want bullshit products, so bullshit workers make sure that bullshit gets on the bullshit shelves. — Hanover
Not really. You're referenced inefficiencies that could result in fewer jobs if eliminated. The corporate America I worked for measured every move until we all became efficient mindless robots devoid of personal authority because that would de-systemetize the machine. The bullshit was that people were treated as cogs. It was dehumanizing and tragic if one ponders these are people who are dedicating their lives to this.
Finding and eliminating inefficiencies is corporate speak for creating a dystopia. It won't result in shorter days, just more tasks during the day monitoring efficiencies and chasing away inefficiencies. The reason for squeezing the most from the worker is because people want more bullshit products and there's no way to predictably get people to do what you need them to than by endless forms, datasets, and numeric monitoring. — Hanover
It's as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working. And here, precisely, lies the mystery. In capitalism, this is precisely what is not supposed to happen. Sure, in the old inefficient socialist states like the Soviet Union, where employment was considered both a right and a sacred duty, the system made up as many jobs as they had to (this is why in Soviet department stores it took three clerks to sell a piece of meat). But, of course, this is the sort of very problem market competition is supposed to fix. According to economic theory, at least, the last thing a profit-seeking firm is going to do is shell out money to workers they don't really need to employ. Still, somehow, it happens.
While corporations may engage in ruthless downsizing, the layoffs and speed-ups invariably fall on that class of people who are actually making, moving, fixing and maintaining things; through some strange alchemy no one can quite explain, the number of salaried paper-pushers ultimately seems to expand, and more and more employees find themselves, not unlike Soviet workers actually, working 40 or even 50 hour weeks on paper, but effectively working 15 hours just as Keynes predicted, since the rest of their time is spent organizing or attending motivational seminars, updating their facebook profiles or downloading TV box-sets. — Graeber
... the feeling that work is a moral value in itself, and that anyone not willing to submit themselves to some kind of intense work discipline for most of their waking hours deserves nothing — Graeber
If you can work from home, there's a good chance yours is a bullshit job. — Banno
And this is convenient for a ruling class that won't share its wealth. — jamalrob
Im retired but my erstwhile career was in IT. I could do my job just as well from home as when i the office. By your estimation, mine was a bullshit job. I beg to differ.FI you can work from home, theres a good chance yours is a bullshit job. — Banno
Depends how boring the Dinner Party is.Do (you) think it’s a good thing to tell people their job is BS for the sake of everyone else, or just let them be? — I like sushi
↪Banno What exactly do you mean by ‘unproductive’ work? — I like sushi
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↪I like sushi Uh-huh. So you would tend to agree that the "practical value for society" is a good criterion of productivity?
I was more re-affirming your question to Banno, and agreeing with your question. — Pantagruel
MAXIMUM PRODUCTIVITY — Frank Apisa
FI you can work from home, theres a good chance yours is a bullshit job. — Banno
It depends what you are teaching. — Banno
The crucial point is that the person doing the job sees that it is bullshit. — Banno
FI you can work from home, theres a good chance yours is a bullshit job. — Banno
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