• Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]
    hexagon
    ·
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    I had a "nice" job doing customer service for a cell phone company. I lasted for 3 month. I am never going back to that again. Now, I have what you call a real job. the customer service job was mentally and spiritually draining. Not saying my current job is great but it is preferable to the soul crushing one.

    • MF_COOM [he/him]
      ·
      2 months ago

      ? That's a real job. Service jobs aren't fake jobs just because you're not producing a physical thing.

      • panned_cakes [none/use name]
        ·
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        insane that there is so much barista labor aristocracy posting coming from people who are in 99th percentile of people who mention Infrared

        also Bullshit Jobs should have stayed a pamphlet even if people agree with it the book doesn't really develop its ideas

        • MF_COOM [he/him]
          ·
          edit-2
          2 months ago

          Yeah I loved Debt but never too interested to read Bullshit Jobs beyond the essay - there's just so many books you know

          • panned_cakes [none/use name]
            ·
            edit-2
            2 months ago

            verso and zero books etc just form a wall of crap intermixed with decent stuff, and it's generally derivative of Adorno, Spinoza, Deleuze, Debord, Baudrillard, and 500 other dudes people cite instead of the writers from the periphery who essentially gave us Capital vol 4 covering the imperialist structure of the modern world, it's always more navel gazing and it rarely pushes you to go deeper into historical investigation - which is depressing, considering how little Marxist academic work there is on many subjects that deserve more

          • space_comrade [he/him]
            ·
            2 months ago

            Eh it's not the best book but I did enjoy reading the many case studies from various industries that he did. But you're right it doesn't really do much to expand the theory of it all.