idk. i worked cleaning a lobby and found that my job could be replaced by customers being cleaner. you know, how 98% of humans are at their own home. Peanut shells on floor are not necessary(might even be more effort to hit the floor than your plate). They are going to walk past the garbage can on their way out, they could have carried the trash.
servers today are easily replaced by either tech (ordering system on table, or a bar style ordering system where you get up and order from 2 wait staff). And if we trusted humans(far fetched), a self serve system: pour you own beer, and add it to your tab.
If my task was something the customer could have easily done themselves (and often do for themselves the other 99$ of their life: cart return, bag groceries) I felt useless.
Like I'm walking behind a person littering and picking their trash up. They could just not litter, you know?
sure some office jobs can be worthless....in defense of my own job that sometimes feels worthless (3-5 hrs per day)....the difference to me is, IF i worked a full 8 hrs, the work performed is useful. VS a job where I believe can be fully replaced by something else. (cashier is replaced by self-checkout, cart return is replaced by aldi style coin system. landscaper is replace by new societal norms(its not required, its desired by an ever-changing beauty standard).
> Graeber lists a few of these bogus occupations[1]: tax lawyers, marketing consultants, actuaries, HR consultants, financial strategists, etc.
jeez, i was thinking cart returner, cashier, some landscaping jobs, ...
Jobs that either could be easily replaced by tech(cashier, waitress),
easily replaced by the customer themselves(shelf stockers vs costco style pallets, cart returner vs aldi style coin system),
or things that society deems desirable but are not realistically valuable (landscaping is sometimes useless, but society sees it as valuable)
actuary has 100% value, we NEED to know the percent chance of something happening, so we can account for billing(if not used for profit mongering, its still required to run an altruistic insurance). I'd say actuary, whether for insurance company or for studies, is a necessary job forever. (not accounting for AI)
servers today are easily replaced by either tech (ordering system on table, or a bar style ordering system where you get up and order from 2 wait staff). And if we trusted humans(far fetched), a self serve system: pour you own beer, and add it to your tab.
If my task was something the customer could have easily done themselves (and often do for themselves the other 99$ of their life: cart return, bag groceries) I felt useless.
Like I'm walking behind a person littering and picking their trash up. They could just not litter, you know?