Bullshit Jobs

Basics

• Essentially UBI by disguesed capitalist means
• Definition
  • A Meaningless ie "bs" jobs that are esentially doing nothing
  • Ie unpacking and repacking the same box for 8hrs a day ie no Deliverables and it is easily automated/replaced by other services
• Examples:
  • Making small decisions for days to weeks (ie green or blu logo uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh (3 weeks later + 5 meetings) )
  • Using Beurocracy and Jargon to Disguise Lack of Progress
  • Lots of arbitrary titles (ie super-junior-assistant business planner)
  • General too much beuracracy / overorganization
  • The world not being worse off, or even better with the job, without thing "a" (ie Middlemen etc)
  • People do not like the job (ie deadend jobs (outside of service jobs which are ESSENTIAL) )
  • Useless Gameification (ie prizes for useless work)
  • Excessive HR
  • Pay = suffering based, not deliverable based
    • Thus humans and capitalism optimize suffering not productivity
• TLDR the world does this and it is a cautionary tale from a great book
• Also Jobs that are only complex "looking busy" only, or largely
• People do not get pleasure from these (even with breaks etc)
  • For example some brutal torture is a similar in real metaphor:
    • "starve them, let them make a pot of soup, then force them to dump it down the drain" - considered some of the most brutal / numberg trial-able
  • ie why is this our job system in the "real" world
• BE THE CHANGE

Solution Proposed

• Polymaths + Growth Mindset + Meaningful Jobs + Proper work ours + passion and fun in the workspace
  • Pie in the sky? Yes. Doable? Yes (ie all of ose lol)

Internal Links

• The Office: How Nonsense Conquered the Workplace – Wisecrack Edition

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on this