07-01-2025, 12:21 AM
(06-30-2025, 10:31 PM)Uncle wrote:(06-30-2025, 10:25 PM)DavidCroquet wrote: as someone who worked a fake job in the fake UBI corporate smoke and mirrors world for a long time, I find it hard to disagree.
I’m not sure that the corps are intentionally establishing useless roles and departments
but that's the main thing I disagree with, there would be no motivation or reason to do this
the twitter conversation is a conspiracy theory that some group is imposing a societal burden upon corporations and making them pay people for no reason just to keep money flowing and the economy going
never attribute to malice conspiracy what can be adequately explained by stupidity
I think it has a lot to do with the too big too fail mentality. If your company is big and retains a lot of employees it's reflected in the share price and an important piece of the economy that the government listens to.
There is also the part where a lot of women have entered the workforce and they also created new jobs. When you hire a 'manager' that person is going to hire more people to manage and when you hire a woman, especially a feminist one, she's going to hire more women.
On the extreme side is the argument that the modern corporate world is just "jew daycare" to keep women from having babies.
I think the ultimate goal is consumption though. Women are the biggest consumer group by far. They spend a lot on clothes, they buy the latest iPhones. They have all their heavy stuff like kitty litter delivered and hire the gig economy services like Ubers and Ikea assembly