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Re:The bullshit-jobs thesis may be bullshit by pydry on Saturday June 05, 2021 @03:24AM (#27402974)
There's probably more people with bullshit jobs who think they are not bullshit than vice versa.

Humans have an innate desire to be useful.

Re:The bullshit-jobs thesis may be bullshit by gpm on Saturday June 05, 2021 @09:01AM (#27404611)
I agree with your second statement, but your first statement doesn't necessarily follow, it depends on the proportion of jobs that are bullshit....

If a human is 1% likely to think a not-bullshit-job is bullshit, and 10% likely to think a bullshit-job is bullshit, but 99% of jobs are not-bullshit, then for every bullshit job that the worker thinks is bullshit, there are 9.9 not-bullshit jobs that the worker thinks are bullshit.

Edit: Repaired math (2 minutes after posting)

Re:The bullshit-jobs thesis may be bullshit by pydry on Saturday June 05, 2021 @09:53AM (#27405034)
Your hypothetical would lead to roughly 98% thinking that their jobs are not bullshit when 99% actually were. At that level we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.

The actual numbers are more like 60% non bullshit / 40% bullshit, though.