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Marc Andreessen
@pmarca
Suppose that “bullshit jobs” are real, but not for the reason Graeber says. What are the actual reasons? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
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will
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cascading principal agent problems
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kepano
@kepano
Selfish herd behavior Industrialisation/technology reduces the cost of a comfortable lifestyle Once people reach comfort they insulate themselves from the risk of losing their job by distributing the work to more fireable people The pattern is fractal within an org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfish_herd_theory
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avi
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the Gervais principle https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
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Zane Austen
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Low interest rates
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cc: @polk
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Diego Basch
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People like to get together and be part of something larger than themselves. Many live under the illusion that they would not work if only they had sufficient money. That is generally bullshit, as you know.
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Ben - [C/x]
@benersing
At one point they weren't “bullshit jobs” and are a relic of a different era / model of commerce.
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Varun Srinivasan
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Insufficient evolutionary pressure at the organizational level
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Jeff Feiwell
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Straussian govt jobs programs
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Nico.cast🐱
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Too many smoothie teams! Related essay on how Twitter could be the first trillion dollar company with less than 500 headcount farcaster://casts/0x...ccef1e0ab9
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2 reasons for me: Lack of competition. So having zero rates means free money means lots of bloat. Lack of entrepreneurial support. Government and institutions should bend backwards to encourage entrepreneurship. If 80% are workers, 20% are founders. But made to feel it’s only 1% (you will fail.) < 1 bill =\= failur
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Sachin
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- hard to handle coordination headwinds at scale - rare in American corporate culture to accept a mistake and shut down a project fast once it's capitalized https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
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Evan Hudson
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Wall Street needed a way to launder its dirty trillions into the economy in order to make neoliberal capitalism work, while simultaneously offshoring all manufacturing to the global south.
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Phil Cockfield
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Managerial (capitalism) multi-polar traps.
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@clstrns
Prior form of work that no longer generates surplus value that nevertheless persists because it’s in an org which already has scale and sufficient profits to persist as-is and no credible challenger at scale yet. If that form of work is representative of the professional class it is peculiarly protected.
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Need to read the entire book. I’m a true-believer. Feeling really grateful to be self employed and put in a solid 11.5 hours a week at my day job, teaching kids. Here is worksheet / workbook page that I created from scratch 10 years ago for my students. https://i.imgur.com/FtYwBjT.jpg
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being employed for any reason other than the org's mission. it's illuminating to ask ppl what the most important part of their job is that doesn't show up on their JD.
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Emmett
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Bullshit jobs exist because fighting entropy is hard
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Paul Millerd
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Religious faith in the job to save us and smooth out finances and the common knowledge that every other way is risky? Love the obama quote in here where he explicitly said they can’t go too hard on insurers because what would they do with the jobs.
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