The fact is that there are lots of workers doing “bullshit jobs”.
“Graeber describes five types of meaningless jobs, in which workers pretend their role is not as pointless or harmful as they know it to be: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
It is normally difficult to eliminate bullshit jobs because no middle manager wants to see their little empire shrink, no union rep wants to see their membership shrink, etc.
AI, just like other technological changes in the past, will give management the ability to rearrange business processes and organizational structures. In doing so, they can reduce the number of bullshit jobs and eliminate a lot of dead wood.
David Rolfe Graeber (/ˈɡreɪbər/; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything (2021), and his leading role in the Occupy movement, earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time.[1][2][3]
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