Nonsense Jobs

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Interesting read. Also read the comments made.

In Singapore LHL creates a lot of nonsense jobs for his government, like 'acting' ministers, so many deputy PMs, his MPs are chairman of this and that GLCs get paid to sit at meetings only. These are administrative jobs with no added value.

Then giving BBM or PBM medals to his own contractors companies and not a PA CCC members no contracts and no BBM PBM titles, so and so.


In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century's end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour working week. There's every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn't happen. Instead, technology has been marshalled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless. Huge swathes of people in the Western world spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul. Yet virtually no one talks about it.

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