There's something I think about a lot that you briefly touched on. When large swathes of people have seemingly unproductive jobs, how does anything even get done? Farmers and other manual laborers have to pick up the slack to support these people with food and other goods, because otherwise nothing of any real value is produced. Yet jobs that arguably contribute more to society are paid less.
It's really a tragedy and a complete failure of our economic system.
Bullshit Jobs was one of the most depressing books I ever read. It was too relevant to my career at the time.
There's something I think about a lot that you briefly touched on. When large swathes of people have seemingly unproductive jobs, how does anything even get done? Farmers and other manual laborers have to pick up the slack to support these people with food and other goods, because otherwise nothing of any real value is produced. Yet jobs that arguably contribute more to society are paid less.
It's really a tragedy and a complete failure of our economic system.