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diff --git a/content/entry/nobody-knows-how-many-bullshit-jobs-exist.md b/content/entry/nobody-knows-how-many-bullshit-jobs-exist.md index 81acd6b..b1440fc 100644 --- a/content/entry/nobody-knows-how-many-bullshit-jobs-exist.md +++ b/content/entry/nobody-knows-how-many-bullshit-jobs-exist.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: "Nobody Knows How Many Bullshit Jobs Exist" date: 2023-05-27T00:00:01 draft: false --- -Before I get into this, I need to define what bullshit jobs are exactly. To do that, I'll quote the person who popularized the idea, deceased American anthropologist [David Graeber](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber): +Before I get into this, I need to define what bullshit jobs are exactly. To do that, I'll quote the person who popularized the idea, deceased American anthropologist [David Graeber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber): > "Bullshit jobs are jobs which even the person doing the job can’t really justify the existence of, but they have to pretend that there’s some reason for it to exist. That’s the bullshit element. A lot of people confuse bullshit jobs and shit jobs, but they’re not the same thing. > @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Before I get into this, I need to define what bullshit jobs are exactly. To do t Here are a few examples: movie executives, sign spinners, academic administrative staff, telemarketers, middle management, gas pumpers, door assistants, etc. -So my claim in this entry is that nobody knows how many [bullshit jobs](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs) exist. I'm not claiming that the number of bullshit jobs is unknowable, just that the methodologies that have been used to determine the number of bullshit jobs (polling) don't produce accurate results. +So my claim in this entry is that nobody knows how many [bullshit jobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs) exist. I'm not claiming that the number of bullshit jobs is unknowable, just that the methodologies that have been used to determine the number of bullshit jobs (polling) don't produce accurate results. For instance, someone may respond to a poll saying their job is pointless just because it's a shit job. This may just be a problem with how the question is posed, but there are several other reasons that mere self-reporting might be unreliable in this particular case. Even if people do understand the question, it may be detrimental to their sense of meaning in life to admit to themselves that their job is pointless, so they lie on the poll. That seems likely to me. |