Specifically the part where it talks about how the current establishment is squeezing the value-creating workers (teachers, police, factory workers, artists, mechanics, etc) while ballooning the "bullshit jobs" (school and hospital administration, lobbyists, PR researchers, consultants, etc)
Wow!
I've been saying this ever since I saw the paper pushers at school taking a "fika" break every 15 minutes making us queue for hours just to turn in papers to our teachers.
We call those "filfak" in Sweden. The "philosophical" faculty.
Basically non-value creating personell that leeches on those who add value.
After reading the article I don't think the author has actually worked BS jobs. I have. BS jobs are more stressful because all you do all day is battle others with BS jobs, directly or indirectly. You're the footsoldiers of empire building. (edited to emphasize, we have a centrally controlled economy focused on limiting freedom, so rather than having 100 competing firms where footsoldiers would be highly advantageous, we have the .gov paid off to limit the marketplace to maybe 2 competing firms, each of 50 departments fighting tooth and nail with whichever department is weakest, lets say 25 of 50 of supposedly friendly internal departments, and the locals are a lot closer and more fun to fight than the competitor, so most of the foot soldier fighting is internal, not with customers or competitors)
Humans are strong worthy opponents and battling them all day is tiring, either directly or indirectly as what amounts to being a toolsmith. TPS reports and such.
A "real job" is much more asymmetric warfare. You, with high technology, cheap energy, financial capitalization tools, an advanced mechanized transport system, and health care support, vs a poor defenseless forest of trees. I wonder who will win?
Even retail vs customer is fundamentally asymmetric warfare, not person to person warfare.
Nationally, as per the article, we probably do spend only 10 or so hours per week working on average. But we also spend maybe 30 hours per week national average fighting other people, either directly or more likely as support troops.
The purpose of this new procedure or report or process is solely for exec A to screw over exec B. Don't worry about the customers we have .gov on our side to eliminate competition.
I don't feel bad about working these jobs. Some high level crook paid off the government to collect a huge amount of money in an unfair market. If I don't collect my share for basically doing nothing, the crook will get it. The system is designed so its completely outside my control other than accepting my cut for doing not much. Well OK then. My carefully designed TPS reports or new procedure or whatever will report my feudal overlord is better than the other feudal overlord. Whatever.
For all your mentions of the government, it's hardly the primary source of competition-oriented jobs, is it? I mean, even without the government's help, there are a lot of jobs in Company A and Company B simply fighting each other for greatest share of a fixed pie of consumer attention (e.g., large parts of marketing and advertising, though the phenomenon is far from restricted to these), no?
Specifically the part where it talks about how the current establishment is squeezing the value-creating workers (teachers, police, factory workers, artists, mechanics, etc) while ballooning the "bullshit jobs" (school and hospital administration, lobbyists, PR researchers, consultants, etc)