Re:Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay
by zozbot234 on Sunday January 12, 2020 @02:27PM
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> The whole idea of “bullshit jobs” is ignorant. You’ve got armies of managers and bean counters trying to squeeze nickels out of processes, and yet we are supposed to believe that we’re keeping all of these people employed for no reason?
Yes, at least in a sense. Coordination failures are a thing. (See e.g. https://equilibriabook.com/toc/ for a readable introduction to the issue.)
Re:Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay
by xyzzyz on Sunday January 12, 2020 @07:54PM
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Author of this book has never held an actual job, FWIW. He is smart, and a good writer, but I'd take his opinions about how business world works with a huge lump of salt.
Yes, at least in a sense. Coordination failures are a thing. (See e.g. https://equilibriabook.com/toc/ for a readable introduction to the issue.)