Bullshit Jobs and the Pseudo-Knowledge Economy
How is it possible that nobody noticed when humanity passed a threshold as significant as the industrial revolution or arguably even the neolithic agricultural revolution about half a century ago? What looks like bullshit jobs give us a clue. Jobs are bullshit because the real knowledge economy was strangled in the cradle and replaced with an ongoing society-wide performance art piece designed to keep everyone confused enough that the current system seems if not exactly reasonable, then at least the only imaginable option. The result is a fragmented obsolete directing class, the subordination of knowledge production to the reproduction of the obsolete social structures, the deployment of massive apparatuses of befuddlement, hyper-alienated knowledge workers with an inverted pay scale, stagnation in all the leading economies that has enabled formerly lagging economies to catch up, a shift from exploitation to exclusion in the core economies, and a large number of people with jobs