As someone with a real job I have a very hard time taking seriously someone claiming their fake job where they write emails from home is traumatic
Sorry comrade I have solidarity with you as a worker but it’s kind of tone-deaf to ask the people who are (definitionally) doing all the work to listen to how hard you in particular have it
I had a “nice” job doing customer service for a cell phone company. I lasted for 3 month. I am never going back to that again. Now, I have what you call a real job. the customer service job was mentally and spiritually draining. Not saying my current job is great but it is preferable to the soul crushing one.
? That’s a real job. Service jobs aren’t fake jobs just because you’re not producing a physical thing.
insane that there is so much barista labor aristocracy posting coming from people who are in 99th percentile of people who mention Infrared
also Bullshit Jobs should have stayed a pamphlet even if people agree with it the book doesn’t really develop its ideas
Yeah I loved Debt but never too interested to read Bullshit Jobs beyond the essay - there’s just so many books you know
verso and zero books etc just form a wall of crap intermixed with decent stuff, and it’s generally derivative of Adorno, Spinoza, Deleuze, Debord, Baudrillard, and 500 other dudes people cite instead of the writers from the periphery who essentially gave us Capital vol 4 covering the imperialist structure of the modern world, it’s always more navel gazing and it rarely pushes you to go deeper into historical investigation - which is depressing, considering how little Marxist academic work there is on many subjects that deserve more
Eh it’s not the best book but I did enjoy reading the many case studies from various industries that he did. But you’re right it doesn’t really do much to expand the theory of it all.
I have a true honest-to-god bullshit job and I agree with you, it’s not exactly what I’d call “traumatic”. Yes I do feel guilt about not contributing much to society and it can be boring as shit but come on my “trauma” isn’t even in the same ballpark as somebody who’s scraping by paycheck to paycheck doing an actually useful job.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
