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We need a name for the "bullshit job provides food on your plate" fallacy. The productivity enhancement from the division of labor and technological advancements provides food on our table, the "bullshit job" is just there because we haven't figure out how to destroy it without hurting people.

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No, read again what I wrote. The food you get is coming from people who do bullshit jobs, since Farming is probably bullshit in the eyes of the poster I referred to.

If you want to start destroying bullshit jobs, reducing the amount of administration and civil servants is a good place to start, because it's a whole additional layer of friction for everything else in society.

I believe he is using the term "bullshit jobs" to mean jobs that are pointless, produce no producivity and are mainly created for the sake of appearances. In other words, the administration and civil servant jobs that you refer to. Jobs such as farm laborer jobs may be boring and tedious, but since they are very clearly productive, are not "bullshit jobs".

This term comes from the anthoropologist David Graeber in his essay 'On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs' (http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/).

I can't believe that fallacy got around. It's oxymoronic, it is just like the sentence "non-swimming fish moves around in your filled aquarium."

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