Re:Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2018)
by medvezhenok on Saturday June 17, 2023 @11:56PM
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Companies, sure. But companies don't spend money - people working at them do. And people working there can have incentives that don't align with the companies incentives.
Not sure what company you worked for, but I can't spend money unless it's approved by the company.
There's a kind of Prisoner's Dilemma here. Sure, set up your company that doesn't have corporate lawyers. It'll work for a while until it very suddenly doesn't. The only way to break out of this is better regulation across industries, but governments also don't always have the right incentives either.
So I'd say if there is company X will to spend $Y on a job, then by definition it's not a bullshit job.