Hard miss. GP is right, and your assumptions say more about you than about me. :^)

palmotea an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Hard miss. GP is right, and your assumptions say more about you than about me. :^)

No. If that's the case, your statement was unclear: since you didn't specify who else thinks those people were cattle, the implication is that you think it.

And the interpretation...

> It seems more like they're implying it's those at the top think that about other people.

...beggar's belief. What indication has "the top" given to show they have that kind of foresight and control? The closest is the AI-bros advocacy of UBI, which (for the record) has gone nowhere.

I was half a mind to point that out in my original comment, but didn't get around to it.

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brazzy 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My observation is about what your assumptions say about you, and that's not a miss.

Nobody really understands a job they haven't done themselves, and "arguing" that 90% of them are "bullshit" has no other possible explanation than a combination of ignorance (you don't understand the jobs well enough to judge whether they are useful) and arrogance (you think you can make that judgement better than the 90% of people doing those jobs).

	▲	wiseowise an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> Nobody really understands a job they haven't done themselves, and "arguing" that 90% of them are "bullshit" has no other possible explanation than a combination of ignorance (you don't understand the jobs well enough to judge whether they are useful) and arrogance (you think you can make that judgement better than the 90% of people doing those jobs). That's fine if you disagree, I'm not aiming to be the authority on bullshit jobs. This doesn't change the fact that you and I are cattle for corpo/neo-feudals.