Nice to see more empirical backing of the Bullshit Jobs theory
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.
Got to wonder how much money the bourgeois spend on convincing logistics workers that they're unimportant. If that lot went on strike, the world would stop.
Be interesting to see if these figures are the same in every country. There's an old Soviet documentary that shows dock workers in Ukraine getting a good salary and knowing their worth. It's a bit hard to watch at the moment because of the war, as it shows Ukraine and Russia working together.
The whole reason is that there are 50 people touching each package so they feel useless