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Re:‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Soci... by chii on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:02PM (#36980461)
> 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.

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Re:‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Soci... by zlg_codes on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:47PM (#36981128)
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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Re:‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Soci... by DoItToMe81 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @03:35AM (#36982543)
Two words: "Scrum Master"
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