
Bullshit Jobs
Hidden Brain
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How Did They Make Up Pointless Positions?
i wrote it this little piece where i basically said, wel you know, back in the thirties they thought we'd be working a 15 hour week by now. They thought that o mechanization would mean we'd be living lives of leisure. But instead what they seem to have done is just made up these imaginary jobs to keep us all busy. It's almost as if they were like some fiendish intelligence, making up pointless positions for us to do. How did this happen? And i wrote this piece and it just went crazy. I y didn't anticipate anything like it. Confession started pouring out. Si realise this was a much larger phenomena than i had even imagined.
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