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40% of all jobs will be gone by 2030.
We will have to replace those jobs, probably with bullshit jobs.

Did anyone else realize that their job is bullshit and not needed?
Why do we even work when we don't need to?

It's over.

Was he right?

Is there any rebuttal to pic related? I have my first salaried job out of college and my experience seems to affirm everything he says. I am shocked by how little actual work I do - on a good day maybe 3 hours, but usually less. As far as I can tell, most of my coworkers aren't doing much more than me, with some telling me over lunch that pretending to be busy for most of the day is normal.
despite this we all get paid well, far more than almost any wage earners. Is it really possible that such a large number of professional workers are basically just economic parasites, or is there more to the story than this?

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OP here, now that I think about it this quote
>We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist.
kind of reminds me of a summary I read of the book Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber, maybe that will answer my question from a theoretical point of view? Does anyone know if that book covers any actual economic theory? or if it makes any prescriptions for how we can organize work efficiently?

Do wagies really?