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Re:'Peanut butter' pay raises could cost companies their top... by catsquirrel28 on Sunday February 22, 2026 @05:58PM (#47115730)
Maybe that's because most jobs are Graberesque bullshit jobs where "high performance" is meaningless.

Most jobs shouldn't exist at all. The value captured by "firms" should instead be captured by the state and distributed peanut butter style to everyone.

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Re:'Peanut butter' pay raises could cost companies their top... by craftwerk on Sunday February 22, 2026 @11:08PM (#47117992)
I also found his thesis compelling, but it’s built on bad social science: https://open.substack.com/pub/gilpignol/p/bullshit-jobs-was-...
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Re:'Peanut butter' pay raises could cost companies their top... by pc86 on Monday February 23, 2026 @12:37PM (#47125637)
How exactly should the state "capture" value generated by these firms? Would it pay the employees more? What would the competitive advantage be? If the jobs are bullshit, why wouldn't some other firm capture the same value without those jobs, making even more profit with less overhead?
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