useless jobs?

[Blanquist]

does it seem that under capitalism, or at least today, there are a lot of jobs that dont need to exist?

why are they supported? is it to maintain some kind of 'middle' class to act as a buffer?

examples:

1. michelle obama used to work at some company before obama got elected, after he was elected and she left, the company didnt bother replacing her, they just got rid of the position.


2. in china there are restaurants, for example, that are always empty and at most a quarter full, yet they have 10 people 'working' there, just standing around, picking their noses or sleeping. this is true of many other places like stores, etc

3. in the financial industry, there's an army of people doing pretty pointless jobs like 'analysis' its just crunching a few numbers, whats there to gain in employing people with high salaries when there is a low return from their work?

how can companies lay off thousands of employees and still have robust business's? increasing profits and such. what was the point of employees them in the first place?

sorry, this is really all over the place, and i know these things aren't closely connected.

[Deicide]

All the jobs on wall-street, except for the cleaners.

[Prometeo liberado]

I work on a farm. I take blind chickens out to shit. Whoever is making them blind needs to stop doing that job as there is no need for it.

[Arlekino]

The financial jobs always puzzles me, how on earth they are so rich just to do something with numbers on computer I tried to understand but I always fail to see possibilities. How is possible to keep such big buildings it cost utility builds.

[Enragé]

in modern capitalism, overproduction is so extreme whole swathes of the workforce are employed in a business the sole concern of which is to entice people to buy more.

its called advertising and its the most useless job ever conceived of.

[jookyle]

The financial jobs always puzzles me, how on earth they are so rich just to do something with numbers on computer I tried to understand but I always fail to see possibilities. How is possible to keep such big buildings it cost utility builds.

They have to do something with all the profit they make off of all the exploitation.

[Blanquist]

in modern capitalism, overproduction is so extreme whole swathes of the workforce are employed in a business the sole concern of which is to entice people to buy more.

its called advertising and its the most useless job ever conceived of.

does everyone agree with this comment? i have no idea, is it a exaggeration?

[ArrowLance]

does everyone agree with this comment? i have no idea, is it a exaggeration? It isn't that extreme, but it's true.

Simply the idea of having a couple hundred different restaurants in one city that are usually all way under capacity is an example of one of the inefficiencies involved with the market.