Here's the thing: if you're working in a market economy, you're serving someone. Almost every job is a service. Someone wants it done.
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Replying to @St_Rev
I was just noticing how this essay http://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-david-graeber/ … realizes "why would people pay for bullshit work" is a question...
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Replying to @literalbanana @St_Rev
...but then utterly fails to even try to answer it, shifting instead to tap dancing
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I don't understand how he can call all-night pizza delivery bullshit, doesn't he work at a college?
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the feedback loop stemming from low worker productivity -> long hours bulllshit. Pizza is side effect
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Replying to @ultimape @The_Lagrangian and
obviously there is value in pizza delivery. The suggestion is that it's proliferation is a signal.
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he's applying an equivalency of saying the extra work is like "the broken window fallacy."
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I doubt he believes David Ricardo was real.
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I don't think doing it on purpose, just that's the memeplex he tends to pull from for insight porn.
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