I a long-winded way of saying “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”

This irks me chat. This is an elephant in the room that should be causing mass chaos

  • BobDole [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    The Bullshit Jobs explanation is that the bullshit jobs are those which are most valuable to Capital, not the jobs that are socially valuable.

    • Chronicon [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      but what actually makes the email jobs valuable to capital when they're essentially bullshit?

      • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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        2 months ago

        A group of coddled faux-elites with so little exposure to serious work that they could never sympathize with union organizers? They are the grease between the vampires and the zeks, keeping a solid buffer between those with power by fiat and those with power in fact.