Bullshit Jobs

What Happened to Utopia?

Pointless, meaningless and, in many cases, harmful jobs constitute more than half of all work performed in Western countries today. If companies eliminated worthless work and automated work that machines could do, people would work only a few hours a day.  

Why do most people still work 40 or more hours each week with only a small amount of vacation time each year? Consider what they might do with their free time. Might they question events around them? Might a leisure-based economy upset the current economy in which only the top one percent gets ahead? Might ruling politicians and the very wealthy have orchestrated the current fake economy to keep citizens occupied with work so they have little time for anything else?

Junk Jobs

Empty jobs are any positions in which the workers believe their labor has no meaning, helps no one, and contributes nothing to society, or they’re jobs that workers know existing technology could easily do. This is especially true if no one would suffer if the worker didn’t do the job. ...