Hello y'all. I've been trying to understand the software development industry from a societal POV but most sources I find have this liberal corporate bootlicking theme or don't have much hard data. Search engines provide few good sources 🤔
In specific I would like to see some research in the self-assessment of bullshit job status in the industry or a similar analysis. In my anecdotal experience a gigantic portion of jobs I've seen provide basically no benefit to society (but pay well I guess), and I would like to check if this belief of mine holds up scientifically.
Anybody know any places to start?
This won't answer to all your questions, but I think it's a good start for empirical research on "bullshit jobs" - it's one the first empirical research on the subject as far i know: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09500170231175771 (if you cannot access it, write a comment and I will send you by email)