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by Nasrudith 2724 days ago
Personally I think that is a separate aspect - alienation from the bullshitness of the job at least in the functional sense. If someone is paid enough just having someone work one and a half hour a day for $15/hour paid 40 hours per hour could still save the company money if their boss is paid $100 hour - the $600 a week they pay would be less than the $750 a week that their boss would be getting paid to do it themselves.

A factory worker could make tons of widgets and not see any point because they are nine levels of abstraction deep from anything they can relate to. Similarly in WW2 many in Bletchly park worked completely devoid of context in what seemed to them literally pointless like repeatably rolling dice and writing the numbers down. It was important but they may feel alienated.

Meanwhile someone could be utterly convinced that their job as a paid entourage is vitally important when really they have no purpose but to signal a person's wealth and status. Their job is bullshit but they're not alienated.