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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/zeh/statuses/113998983895382430">Zeh Fernando (zeh@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 08:10:42 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zeh" title="zeh@mastodon.gamedev.place"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/158753-48-20230808212040.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Zeh Fernando" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Zeh Fernando</a><div><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/113998192203585250" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li><li><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/user/80117" title="carnage4life@mas.to">Dare Obasanjo</a></li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dalias">@dalias</a> <a href="https://mas.to/@carnage4life">@carnage4life</a> I think it's a problem that is prominent not just in the company depicted but almost everywhere in big tech. After a certain size, things stop making sense, everyone is doing bullshit work. They can't derive value from what they're making it building, so they do that from their paycheck and title.</p><p>Related: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4558795#notice-8930315">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-02-14T08:10:42+09:00" title="Friday, 14-Feb-2025 08:10:42 JST">about 3 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zeh/113998983895382430" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.gamedev.place via ActivityPub">mastodon.gamedev.place</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zeh/113998983895382430">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs">Bullshit Jobs</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs and analyzes their societal harm. He contends that over half of societal work is pointless and becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth. Graeber describes five types of meaningless jobs, in which workers pretend their role is not as pointless or harmful as they know it to be: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters. He argues that the association of labor with virtuous suffering is recent in human history and proposes unions and universal basic income as a potential solution.
The book is an extension of Graeber's 2013 popular essay, which was later translated into 12 languages and whose underlying premise became the subject of a YouGov poll. Graeber solicited hundreds of testimonials from workers with meaningless jobs and revised his essay's case into book form; Simon &amp; Schuster published the book in May 2018.SummaryThe productivity benefits of automation have not led to a 15-hour...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Zeh Fernando (zeh@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 08:10:42 JSTZeh Fernando
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@dalias @carnage4life I think it's a problem that is prominent not just in the company depicted but almost everywhere in big tech. After a certain size, things stop making sense, everyone is doing bullshit work. They can't derive value from what they're making it building, so they do that from their paycheck and title.
Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
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  Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs and analyzes their societal harm. He contends that over half of societal work is pointless and becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth. Graeber describes five types of meaningless jobs, in which workers pretend their role is not as pointless or harmful as they know it to be: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters. He argues that the association of labor with virtuous suffering is recent in human history and proposes unions and universal basic income as a potential solution. The book is an extension of Graeber's 2013 popular essay, which was later translated into 12 languages and whose underlying premise became the subject of a YouGov poll. Graeber solicited hundreds of testimonials from workers with meaningless jobs and revised his essay's case into book form; Simon & Schuster published the book in May 2018. Summary The productivity benefits of automation have not led to a 15-hour...

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