The theory that many people feel the work they do is pointless because their jobs are "bullshit" has been confirmed by a new study.

Nice to see more empirical backing of the Bullshit Jobs theory graeber

The research found that people working in finance, sales and managerial roles are much more likely than others on average to think their jobs are useless or unhelpful to others.

The study, by Simon Walo, of Zurich University, Switzerland, is the first to give quantitative support to a theory put forward by the American anthropologist David Graeber in 2018 that many jobs were "bullshit"—socially useless and meaningless.

  • GaveUp [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    "socially useless and meaningless" is the phrasing they used

    The average ad tech engineer at Google or Meta probably provides a couple dozen millions of revenue to the company but socially, it's useless and meaningless

    • glans [it/its]
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      11 months ago

      do you think it is really meaningless? seems to me there is hella meaning

      • Fuckass
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        10 months ago

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      • enkifish [any]
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        11 months ago

        Considering google and meta are advertising companies, the meaning is a net negative.