[piloto_ciego]

It's UBI man. All those jobs are essentially UBI.

I've been thinking about this a lot, but basically, my old job was basically superfluous and we didn't accomplish anything important but I had to pretend that it was real, important, meaningful, and progressing.

The truth is that most people's jobs are kind of unnecessary in the white collar world, and in some David Graber-esque hellscape we have to pretend that all the work is hyper important and aligned, etc.

Basically, society in the US is so opulent that for a great many people in the white collar world, it's more important that they look busy than actually do anything. It's the Pareto principle in action, or maybe a power law thing, or something where to get those few people who bust their ass and produce and add great value a ton of hanger-oners have to be a part of the org in order to facilitate that. Regardless, it's basically UBI but with meetings.

[abalashov]

I am impressed that Graeber made his way into this conversation (and the author's article), and really appreciate your take.

I think about "Bullshit Jobs" every time I hear someone tell me how lean, efficient and rational the free-market private sector is compared to socialist central planning. In many senses, it is of course true, but it's not quite as true as one might believe at first glance.