Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism
Lots of stuff just plain wrong, e.g.:> If you can’t afford to send your kid to a top college and then support them for 2-3 years doing unpaid internships in some place like New York or San Francisco, forget it, you’re locked outUnpaid internships aren't a thing in the US, they are not even legalLooks like they are a thing...maybe just outside of tech. Or:> Something like 37-40% of workers according to surveys say their jobs make no difference.The whole idea of bullshit jobs is based on people's own assessment of their work? You should really ask the people paying their salary whether the job is useful or not since they are the ones paying for it.Labor productivity is constantly increasing, if you measure it in a systematic, rather than anecdotal way. Here is an article about some trends in US labor productivity, notice that even though growth has slowed it is still steadily increasing:
https://www.brookings.edu/research/understanding-us-producti...