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> the point of the job ends up being to keep people employed and pay taxes

I don’t think this thesis holds any water. Companies don’t care about keeping people employed and paying taxes on such a micro scale that they’re willing to bite the bullet and hire people because they know it’s for some greater good of societal stability.

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They do keep people employed in useless jobs though. Sometimes hiring shuts down, sometimes they do purges of useless jobs, but it's the larger population that shows the trend.

I think the notion that these jobs are useless is wrong. Most of the categories in bullshit jobs are just straight up not bullshit. Most jobs are useful.

Things like lawyers, secretaries, corporate compliance officers generally provide value.

Things like middle management are more dubious, but I think they generally do provide value.

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