Curious what jobs you think are worthwhile and what you do?

Not OP but I’d assume medical professionals, teachers, engineers, artists, food producers, workers in a (sustainable) power plant etc….

Those jobs are worthless too when you realize they're mostly just keeping people with worthless jobs alive for longer.

Ultimately, we should all die and let the top 1% have their planet back. Hopefully AI gets us there.

I’m all for renewable/sustainable energy, but I disagree with your implication that people working jobs in coal or gas power plants have worthless jobs. In pretty much every part of the world, power grids rely on those plants (for now), so those workers are literally keeping the lights on and civilization going. And it is often hard work.

Yep. Most or at least many jobs exist purely to make the shareholders of companies more money by essentially exploiting people. Sure some of that is selling people what they want - but for the large part it’s exploitation and of little benefit to us socially.

If you think that’s true, just wait until they stop paying those paychecks to their employees….

I would guess most are likely a net negative, but it can depend on your perspective. Anyway, I would say in most cases you probably make the world a little worse.

At the very least you're helping funnel money from the average joe and divert it to the uber wealthy, and a handful of lottery ticket winners. Often, you're actively searching for ways to hurt the vast majority of the population.

Maybe the best thing to do is work for an optimally useless VC-cash-furnace startup and spread as much of their money as far as you can before they cotton on.

> Because they are?

that's just a tautological argument. They are useless because the are useless?

IMHO, if a job gets pay, it is not useless, because the person paying is implicitly agreeing that the payment is worth the job being done - esp. if it's a private job, rather than a publicly funded job.

Have you considered people who work a job because they are forced to by market forces, or court orders?

It's disingenuous to assume we all have a choice of where to direct our labor. If that were true, nobody would work for bad employers. Humans are exploitative of one another and society is where we formalize it.

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