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How many people who wanted to be pilots are marketing managers or something? How many people who could be nurses are working in health insurance? Eliminating bullshit jobs would create more workers for non-bullshit jobs
As a UX designer who decided not to be a doctor though I could have, I don't think this is how it works.
There’s entire billing departments in hospitals that are full of people who could be nurses but have jobs dealing with insurance, so it does work like that a bit.
That doesn't mean if you get rid of insurance jobs, they would be nurses.
That's what I mean. If they didn't have all these people pushing paper they could be helping patients.
Or they'd be pushing paper somewhere else.
bullshit jobs are a compelling concept, but not one i really find convincing. we can say paper pushing isn't a real job or whatever, but large organizations do require staff to manage the complexity of their infrastructure. if those papers don't get pushed, nobody gets paid and nobody doing the non-bullshit jobs know where to go or what to do. not to say that advertising isn't on its own of dubious social value, but profit-seeking corporations wouldn't invest in paying those folks if they didn't make them money or otherwise facilitate the making of money.