From my own experience I can tell you that bullshit jobs are paid quite good but that’s beside my point.
Unskilled labor is less a myth but rather a strategy of capital. In the past you needed skilled masons to build a house or what ever. Now you rather use concrete, a material anyone can learn to work which makes the worker expendable. Same with factories where skilled craftsmen were replaced by production line workers, reduced to barely more than extensions of the machine. This is really happening, it’s not a myth, it’s a way to take away our dignity. Bullshit jobs are a similar but different phenomenon.
Bullshit jobs often tend to be better paid however. No paper pusher is getting paid minimum wage iirc
From my own experience I can tell you that bullshit jobs are paid quite good but that’s beside my point.
Unskilled labor is less a myth but rather a strategy of capital. In the past you needed skilled masons to build a house or what ever. Now you rather use concrete, a material anyone can learn to work which makes the worker expendable. Same with factories where skilled craftsmen were replaced by production line workers, reduced to barely more than extensions of the machine. This is really happening, it’s not a myth, it’s a way to take away our dignity. Bullshit jobs are a similar but different phenomenon.
I am not sure if we’re even disagreeing here. “Removing our dignity” and “poverty wages” are two sides of the same coin.