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the difference between bullshit jobs and shit jobs:
Bullshit jobs often pay quite well and tend
to offer excellent working conditions. They’re just pointless.
Shit jobs are usually not at all bullshit; they typically
involve work that needs to be done and is clearly of benefit to society;
it’s just that the workers who do them are paid and treated badly.

talking about Wall Street people: "have no responsibility to pay taxes; they have no responsibility to their clients; they have no responsibility to counter-parties in transactions. They are tough, greedy, aggressive, and feel absolutely out of control in a quite literal sense, and they have gamed the system to a remarkable extent.

a bullshit job is a form of employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify
its existence even though the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case.

The remainder are divided between a terrorized stratum of the
universally reviled unemployed and a larger stratum who are basically paid to do nothing, in positions designed to make them identify with the perspectives and sensibilities of the ruling class and particularly its financial avatars but, at the same time, foster a simmering resentment against anyone whose work has undeniable social value