They may seem pointless to those outside of the organization. As long as someone is willing to pay them then someone considers they have value.
No one is “starving to death” but you’d have people just barely scraping by.
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DupaCycki@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
To be fair, a lot of jobs in capitalist societies are indeed pointless. Some of them even actively do nothing but l subtract value from society.
That said, people still need to make a living and his piece of shit artificial insanity is only making it more difficult. How about stop starving people to death and propose solutions to the problem?
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
LengAwaits@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
This is the tricky nature of “value”, isn’t it?
Something can be both valuable and detrimental to humanity.
jj4211@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
With many bearaucracies there’s plenty of practically valueless work going on.
Because some executive wants to brag about having over a hundred people under them. Because some proceas requires a sort of document be created that hasn’t been used in decades but no one has the time to validate what does or does not matter anymore. Because of a lot of little nonsense reasons where the path of least resistance is to keep plugging away. Because if you are 99 percent sure something is a waste of time and you optimize it, there’s a 1% chance you’ll catch hell for a mistake and almost no chance you get great recognition for the efficiency boost if it pans out.
CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
why capitalist societies specifically?
SanicHegehog@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
There’s a book Bullshit Jobs that explores this phenomenon. Freakonomics also did an episode referring to the book, which I found interesting.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
management, CEOs, csuites, and admins being one of them.