[adamgordonbell]

Author here. I asked some devs this question:

    Although you are required to do your job, you secretly believe it is pointless and should not need to be performed.

Turns out a lot of people answered yes, which is sort astounding.

[ozim]

There is a lot of people who don't understand how complex our lives became.

There is much more of a disconnect between stuff we eat and food regulations for example.

People working on food regulations might feel like it is BS job because almost every company abides to the rules and it seems like without it everyone would do that because it seems "obvious".

In 1850s meat was produced by basically everyone who had animals, amount of sick people because of no regulation was super high. Is there anyone from 2020s that remembers it?

I believe there is much more disconnect - so people don't really understand "why" they are doing their jobs than actual BS jobs.

Other argument, singers are not producing anything why people pay for songs or concerts? It is BS job if we look at simple outcome of food or produce, but it is not BS if we look at emotions.

[adamgordonbell]

This is true. If people think their jobs are pointless then perhaps they actually aren't. Also perhaps for some people in a dark headspace every job seems like BS.

But also if people say their job is useless it might very well be.

[doubled112]

Everybody wants to change the world, but not everybody stops to wonder why the world is the way it is.