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stabby_cicada @slrpnk.net

9mo ago

down with bullshit jobs

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The real pressing question is who is in the sausage though.
- The other pig that went to the market.
  
  You where today years old when you realised he wasn't picking up groceries.
- That fucker Neil.

i can see it: The piggy that sat all day on the PC
- It depends. Do you edit videos for pragerU? Or you do something more useful for society like PornHub?
  
  So as a film editor…my job is bullshit?
  Well, if you can't imagine a pig wearing clothes doing your job, then yes!
  
  Art is bullshit now?
  Any non-pig art.
  
  What's up with your imagination that you cannot imagine a pig artist in a children's book?
  
  I mean, can you or can you not picture your job being done by a pig wearing clothes in a children's book?
  Because I can picture a pig with a boater hat and round glasses carrying a pile of half-unspooled film reels, a pair of safety scissors and a roll of tape on their belt.
  And before you complain about it being an old-fashioned depiction, the OOP isn't exactly how a modern butcher works either.
- Plenty of us look a lot like that, though

this has severe conservative energy. the fuck is this even supposed to mean? if you're paid for it, it's a job, dumbass. that's literally the only metric.
- But what does it even gate keep against...?
- I think it's alluding to the theory set out in this book:
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
  
  well at least this is a more specific take and, apart from duct tapers, seems roughly sensible in what it's trying to say, if i understood correctly from my cursory glance, that jobs should be more fulfilling than making the elite feel better.
  but the tweet is doing a very bad job if this is really what they're alluding to. the tweet's framing is more similar to reactionary rhetoric against sex work, entertainment and art, clean jobs, and basically anything that's not coal mining.
- I think it's trying to say that intellectual jobs are not jobs. Which is demonstrably not true.
  If all the investment bankers went away we'd probably be fine but if all the cyber security experts went away there'd be a big problem. The job is labour intensive, but one of them is much less important than the other.

Understood. Time to make a living by butchering my own kind and turning them into sausages.
- Now hold on there Sweeney Todd
- Only if they're rich. There's nothing criminal about grinding the ultra-rich into sausages.
  Warning: this is not literally true.
  
  You probably can in the US, they have no food standards laws.
  
  By the time you've worked out avoiding repercussions from the ultra-rich for grinding up their friends, legality has lost any influence over your actions.
  Can't be criminalized if you are never caught. Oh, and those repercussions from the ultra-rich would probably come with having the whole story burried. Can't have the poors getting ideas.

I can imagine a pig collecting the labour value of the proletariat through his investments in capital and living it up on a yacht with a bunch of cocaine and piggy hookers
- All animals are equal but some are more equal than others
- Idk why but I'm busting up over piggy hookers
- Also isn't that pig making products out of other pigs?

- you might be a lot less stressed if you stopped caring so much about what randos on the internet think about your job

The converse is not necessarily true. I can imagine a pig sitting at a desk writing code, but that doesn't mean my job isn't bullshit.
- Came here to mention Peppa Pig's Dad. Could swear he and his job are portrayed as a detriment to society.

I reckon a lot of people would consider my job to not be a real job, but I can imagine a pig sitting in front of a computer just fine.
- Just turn off the screen, you'll see one. /s
  
  Ha, nice try, I don't work for the police

Are there jobs you can't imagine? Isn't that the point of imagination?
- Hollywood can't depict humans doing my job.

Quick scan if the comments and not seeing anything about how this pig likely just chopped up either friends or family to turn into bologna for a worm driving an apple.
- All beef bologna. Cows are an underclass in the Richard Scary universe.
  
  They know what they did.
- Issue #2 of Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees (recent comic, basically Dexter meets Richard Scarry, really good!) had a cover that played off of this lol.

Your lack of imagination has no bearing on the validity of my, or anyone else's job.

As an artist I cannot think of a single thing this disqualifies. Including sex work.
- I get where you're coming from, and I would love to see a Richard Scary take on "AI Prompt Engineer" or "Influencer".
- What page was the pig doing the sexual engineering on? Asking for a friend

Pig Hannibal Lecter

I can imagine a pig in a children's book sitting in front of a computer with several empty coffee cups surrounding it. That covers about 40% of the job market these days.
- Here you go
  
  That pig is way to cheerful at doing it's mind numbing corporate job. But then again it's less bad than the sociopath butcher pig.
- Was gonna say- Peppa Pig anyone?

Oh no I don’t think a piggy can hold a pipetter

Meaning all jobs are valuable or he has no imagination?

Hard disagree. I can easily imagine anyone in this scenario including some Instagram influencer peddling crypto schemes as this pig.

So... Who's for dinner?

I can picture it, but I cannot imagine the pig happy.

Murder isn’t a job
- I'm not a "crazed gunman," I'm an assassin!
- Would you rather categorize it as a hobby?

Well I can't imagine a pig drawing this so that's a pretty idiotic metric

Strong Golgafrinchan B-Ark vibes from this meme.

cough cough police cough

So true

Hard disagree. Butchers are great, they are members of the community and provide food.
This is some bullshit. All work is valuable, not make sure you are paid for your labor or work for yourself or your community.
- Oh so you didn't get it then? Nice

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