50% of workers polled say their job feels pointless and they are not really doing anything

only about 39% of a work day consists of actually doing the job.

"essential" workers concept invented for Covid lockdown, affirming the reality of bullshit jobs

large businesses may be so prosperous to afford unneccesary employees

Universal basic income: everyone being paid just for existing

inflation makes it difficult to save up currency for grave spending

Taxonomy of BS jobs

Flunkies: does some important person's work for them

Goon: competitive soldiers against goons in other domains. Sales, PR, marketing, soldiers.

Duct tapers: people who manually implement that which could be automated with a little care

Box tickers: people hired to tick a box. Unnecessary departments, DEI, etc.

Taskmasters: midlde managers, keep track of tasks and the underlings.

advertising bans helped cigarette industry; ads were only useful to stop other cig corps, so the ban eliminated goons