Is a certain quantity of this socially useless labor mathematically vital to the survival of capital, or is the proliferation of this labor a sort of unchecked outgrowth that’s an unforeseen outcome?
“The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political.”
It’s literally straight out of the article that coined the term “Bullshit Jobs”, a point that’s made several times
It’s not at all clear to me how capitalists are directly compelled to do what they do by macroeconomic forces alone, in such a way that it is not possible to imagine them acting otherwise. That is a far-reaching claim that demands the burden of proof.
Is a certain quantity of this socially useless labor mathematically vital to the survival of capital, or is the proliferation of this labor a sort of unchecked outgrowth that’s an unforeseen outcome?
that’s not at all clear to me
It’s literally straight out of the article that coined the term “Bullshit Jobs”, a point that’s made several times
It’s not at all clear to me how capitalists are directly compelled to do what they do by macroeconomic forces alone, in such a way that it is not possible to imagine them acting otherwise. That is a far-reaching claim that demands the burden of proof.