On bullshit jobs
Click to view"Back in the 60s we had a lot of culture that took a lot of time like ??? or drum solo, poetry that goes on forever and now it's all the stuff like cat memes of youtube rants that all things that you can do while you pretending you are doing something else"
"Keynes famously predicted in 30s that we are almost upon a time we should be working certainly half what we are doing now, ... and if you look at jobs we had at a time we eliminated a lot of them"
".. all those tax cuts in America. They redefine rich people as job creators. When people ask why there are so many bullshit jobs I point out the only thing that left and right agree is that more jobs is always good, right ?... They never say the jobs that actually do something ..."
"If you hand out money to poor people they buy food and other necessities,... if you give money to middle class they may buy a swimming pool ... it will create demand for actual stuff. If you just give money to rich people and just say "You are a job creators. You have a lot of money. Create some jobs" They unlike to create shoes or pools that would be sold to anybody. If they feel pressured to hire somebody, what they gonna do ? They will hire some flankers to make them feel good about themselves. It's an obvious thing to do"