Re:On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
by eliasmacpherson on Monday August 19, 2013 @11:14AM
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I thought that the redundancy in all the engineers working on competing identical products was bad but this is worse. No wonder we're not exploring space. My understanding of free market theory is that the "competition" supposedly drives down price, but I don't think free markets exist.
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Re:On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
by eli_gottlieb on Monday August 19, 2013 @02:15PM
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I wish Graeber had reiterated his "1% market" idea another time in full, but the basics are as he implied here. A market reflects the preferences of the people who have the money. If you have a market economy with deeply built-in and extreme inequalities, then you can get a "free market" that, yes, reflects the preferences of about 1% of the population.