iByteABit [comrade/them]

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Cake day: October 16th, 2023

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  • This was a problem I had reading Bullshit Jobs.

    While it does shine some light on what is a socially beneficial job and the fact that the current system tends to create artificial jobs in its inability to deal with its own contradictions, it doesn’t really talk much about the root problem being class exploitation.

    Sure, my bullshit job could maybe be optimized away at some point by a more efficient process, but that won’t make me happy when under capitalism I will probably end up becoming jobless and desperate instead.

    The root contradiction is always the class distinction, like the fact that the work we do sometimes is useless for society or even harmful to it, while being beneficial to the capitalists, or that capitalists view actual solutions to many problems as cost and bad business decisions for their profit making, so instead ducktape solutions are applied forcing workers to do something that they themselves don’t consider all that useful.