When I saw it, it was posted on sites to mock this thinking.
Yeah, someone believes it to have made this. But yeah, that person sucks.
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frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Is this really the message we want to send?
Yes, our society makes lots of bullshit jobs. That’s because capitalism can only keep people employed by creating bullshit jobs, and unemployed people are six missed meals away from revolution. That is not the fault of the people who have bullshit jobs.
And no, I won’t accept “this is just a shitposting sub, lighten up” as a response. This is just another form of kicking down, and it isn’t funny. The working class needs solidarity, not this.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
Yeah I really don’t like the “blue collar good tech bad” undertone here
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Agreed, but I refuse to extend that acceptance to most consultants.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 hours ago
Further reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 48 minutes ago
Couldn’t be further from reality. Capitalist firms actively hire the least amount of people possible, because if they can get away with equal production and lower number of employees, that means higher profit.
Capitalism is actually the only system in human history with unemployment: it wasn’t a thing in hunter-gatherer society, it wasn’t a thing in early agricultural societies, it wasn’t a thing during the times of slavery, it wasn’t a thing during feudalism, and it hasn’t been a thing in any communist nation such as Cuba or the USSR (both guaranteeing jobs to every citizen as a right, and the latter having 10% of all positions vacant from 1970 onward).
Capitalism maintains an unemployed sector of the population because:
Employing more workers costs more money to firms
Having high unemployment decreases wages, improving profits of firms
Having a pool of unemployed people allows firms to spawn, grow and mutate without difficulty of finding workers to do so.