:Graeber-shining:
this doesn’t always work the other way, for example “I own property”
I’d say that still works because ownership of a thing isn’t work. Saying “I own a coffee maker” says nothing about what I do for work. If their description doesn’t include describing labor then they’re clearly not working for a living.
“I analyze sales”
“I develop automation”
There’s no saving Blockchain stuff fuck that“I sustainably harvest fish and other aquatic foodstuffs for human and/or animal consumption.”
Bad news fisherbros
sustainably
I mean, probably not, no.
No! NOOOOO!!!
This is more than three words, but “I fetishize real work and imagine that the only thing that counts as real work is when white guys with beards do stuff that would fit in the age of empires tech tree”
I guarantee the author of this meme is some urban liberal that is working through their own alienation from work
People seem to constantly forget that the working class is mostly women of color. “I drive buses” or “I serve food” would have been better
I kill gamers
“I abuse and kill fish”
Sorry, that’s more than three words
Dunno if its any interest but graeber was insistent that having a BS job was self defined. Because there are jobs that may appear useless to an outsider but in fact are not.
Also having a job which is harmful, destructive, or evil is not the same as having a BS job.
I suck dick
I deliver beans
Not even a joke, I’m a bean delivery man
i do everything
Bad because the vast majority of bullshit jobs are just:
- I write emails.
- I make graphs.
- I generate reports.
- I schedule meetings.
Glad to see that “social media influencer” is a real job.
Its a more real job than “financial analyst”
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I’m pretty sure none of these are actually “bullshit jobs” as defined by Graeber, they just do things that Hexbear culture doesn’t like.
Also, plenty of very real R&D & manufacturing jobs couldn’t be described in 3 words without being needlessly vague or reductive. There is in fact complexity in a modern industrial economy.
Yeah this is a little bit “if you don’t have a hard hat and a big hammer you aren’t proletarian,” which is the exact opposite of what we should be saying
I didn’t feel like busting out the jargon but yeah it smacks a bit of vulgar producerism.
It’s been a while since I read it, but there are two broad categories of bullshit jobs, right? In the first, the job itself is bullshit; you might barely have any day-to-day responsibilities and no one notices if you do any work or not, or perhaps the work itself doesn’t accomplish anything of value (I think an example of the latter was someone who prepared exhaustive compliance reports that no one actually read). The second category is a real job that contributes to a bullshit industry. So a network administrator is a real job, but doing IT work for an insurance company is in service of a bullshit industry that just shuffles money around. On the other hand, an engineer for Lockheed Martin, while undeniably doing harm, is not doing a bullshit job.
Totally with you on complexity not implying bullshit, though.
I write bangers
I draw furries
