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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This won't happen because no one is measuring productivity. If they had any way to measure productivity or even cared about it, there wouldn't be bullshit jobs. CEOs will never admit this, because it was never the point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If there weren't bullshit jobs, capitalism would collapse. There wouldn't be enough jobs to feed the workers, so they'd revolt and overthrow the system. People don't revolt and overthrow the system very often, but when two thirds of the population is starving, they do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

These are not mutually exclusive.