• Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
    65·
    5 months ago

    3 people above the fisherman:

    • sales analyst
    • automation technician
    • software engineer

    Fisherman:

    • I operate a decentralized, sustainability-focused aquatic-resource acquisition methodology utilizing precision-guided line-and-lure interface systems to facilitate targeted biomass retrieval.
  • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    42·
    5 months ago

    Is this really the message we want to send?

    Yes, our society makes lots of bullshit jobs. That’s because capitalism can only keep people employed by creating bullshit jobs, and unemployed people are six missed meals away from revolution. That is not the fault of the people who have bullshit jobs.

    And no, I won’t accept “this is just a shitposting sub, lighten up” as a response. This is just another form of kicking down, and it isn’t funny. The working class needs solidarity, not this.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

      When I first saw this (maybe years ago), it was posted on sites to mock this thinking.

      Yeah, someone believes it to have made this. But yeah, that person sucks.

    • Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.comBanned
      1·
      5 months ago

      Yes, our society makes lots of bullshit jobs. That’s because capitalism can only keep people employed by creating bullshit jobs, and unemployed people are six missed meals away from revolution

      Couldn’t be further from reality. Capitalist firms actively hire the least amount of people possible, because if they can get away with equal production and lower number of employees, that means higher profit.

      Capitalism is actually the only system in human history with unemployment: it wasn’t a thing in hunter-gatherer society, it wasn’t a thing in early agricultural societies, it wasn’t a thing during the times of slavery, it wasn’t a thing during feudalism, and it hasn’t been a thing in any communist nation such as Cuba or the USSR (both guaranteeing jobs to every citizen as a right, and the latter having 10% of all positions vacant from 1970 onward).

      Capitalism maintains an unemployed sector of the population because:

      1. Employing more workers costs more money to firms

      2. Having high unemployment decreases wages, improving profits of firms

      3. Having a pool of unemployed people allows firms to spawn, grow and mutate without difficulty of finding workers to do so.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    39·
    5 months ago

    So I either have a bullshit job “I design chips for isosychronous low-latency networks” or a real job “I herd electrons”…

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    38·
    5 months ago

    Is this a war on being specific?

    If a fisherman says “I operate the winch on a bowpicker tuna fishing boat”, is that a bullshit job?

    If a middle-management yes-man who exists only to fluff his boss’ ego describes his job as “I encourage excellence” does that mean his job is no longer bullshit?

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        5 months ago

        A lot of managers are pretty useless. Some degree of management is needed because you can’t just have 10,000 individual contributors all reporting directly to the CEO. But, a lot of managers get where they are by schmoozing, claiming credit, shifting blame, avoiding responsibility, etc.

  • Novamdomum@fedia.io
    27·
    5 months ago

    Extreme physical danger of drowning, hypothermia, severe injury, insane hours, unpredictable income, huge mental and emotional stress in an industry that often damages the environment and is plagued with human rights abuses?

    This comic feels like it was written by the fisherman.