• sobchak@programming.dev
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    14 hours ago

    Capitalism is trying as hard as possible to replace people with machines, but there are a lot of jobs that machines simply can’t do.

    This is not absolutely true. I’ve seen and worked manual jobs that could absolutely be automated by a fairly simple machine. There isn’t much reason to automate low-paying jobs away.

    There are also a lot of pointless “bullshit jobs.” ~20% of people think their own jobs are pointless.

    I’ve been around the tech startup scene for a while now, and they often do a lot of pointless work that everyone knows isn’t useful, just because they know that’s what’s “hot” right now with investors.

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      14 hours ago

      There isn’t much reason to automate low-paying jobs away.

      Ok, fair enough.

      There are also a lot of pointless “bullshit jobs.” ~20% of people think their own jobs are pointless.

      How many of them are right? Maybe some of them. But, a lot of people don’t appreciate the whole system they’re part of.

      do a lot of pointless work that everyone knows isn’t useful, just because they know that’s what’s “hot” right now with investors.

      I doubt it’s truly pointless. Sure, it might not end up working, but maybe the investor actually knows more than the workers. There are a lot of successful companies that I saw in their early stages and thought “nobody’s ever going to pay money for that”, and I was completely wrong.