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Ok, you are literally equating food production, which includes agriculture which led to humans being able to support groups bigger than a circus troupe, with "b

Ok, you are literally equating food production, which includes agriculture which led to humans being able to support groups bigger than a circus troupe, with "bullshit job." Got it.

ekianjo 12y ago
Yeah, the job description of food production fits nicely with the post about bullshits jobs from a couple of days ago. I am assuming you are using the same definition here. EDIT: on top of that, you could argue that Agriculture is bullshit since most of the food we produce is thrown away?
- partition 12y ago
  Nice assumptions dude. I guess this is the internet for ya; post something that is not even very controversial, and your own caricatured projection is jumped on. On your other note, it is not bullshit as long as it is sustainable and people are being fed. If it was, you bet it'd be fixed, one way or the other, up to, including, and beyond cannibalism to genetic re-engineering not to need food. On the other hand, there is your typical TechCrunch startup lol. Don't even bother replying. It seems we are so different in how in touch we are, I could be locked in an internetless and lightless room with no outside communication for the rest of my life, and still be able to do non bullshit work, which I'd scratch into the walls with my fingernails, so when I die and they open the box to take me out they (at least the in-touch ones) will be awed and the world will be a better place, while you could be handed the US presidency, or the leadership of a multi-national corporation, and still cock it up by starving the population and workers to death by removing "bullshit jobs" lol.
SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
I think you misread the comment. Agriculture is not a "bullshit job" (well, except in the literal manure = fertilizer sense) because it produces something people actually need. Something like, say, social marketing (my job) is a bullshit job, because it's just made up to encourage people to consume more to keep the economy humming along.

Ok, you are literally equating food production, which includes agriculture which led to humans being able to support groups bigger than a circus troupe, with "bullshit job." Got it.

ekianjo 12y ago

Yeah, the job description of food production fits nicely with the post about bullshits jobs from a couple of days ago. I am assuming you are using the same definition here. EDIT: on top of that, you could argue that Agriculture is bullshit since most of the food we produce is thrown away?

partition 12y ago
Nice assumptions dude. I guess this is the internet for ya; post something that is not even very controversial, and your own caricatured projection is jumped on. On your other note, it is not bullshit as long as it is sustainable and people are being fed. If it was, you bet it'd be fixed, one way or the other, up to, including, and beyond cannibalism to genetic re-engineering not to need food. On the other hand, there is your typical TechCrunch startup lol. Don't even bother replying. It seems we are so different in how in touch we are, I could be locked in an internetless and lightless room with no outside communication for the rest of my life, and still be able to do non bullshit work, which I'd scratch into the walls with my fingernails, so when I die and they open the box to take me out they (at least the in-touch ones) will be awed and the world will be a better place, while you could be handed the US presidency, or the leadership of a multi-national corporation, and still cock it up by starving the population and workers to death by removing "bullshit jobs" lol.

SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago

I think you misread the comment. Agriculture is not a "bullshit job" (well, except in the literal manure = fertilizer sense) because it produces something people actually need. Something like, say, social marketing (my job) is a bullshit job, because it's just made up to encourage people to consume more to keep the economy humming along.