Even if your job is to literally rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic, it may not be pointless at all for that person or for those who enjoy the fruits of the labor.
People not only need jobs, they want them.
Many people get great satisfaction in doing a good job, earning money, and supporting themselves and family.
Pretty much anything you do is "pointless" by someone's subjective opinion. I mean, we are all going to burn up from sun exposure in a few billion years anyway.
My job could be done by someone with maybe a months training right out of high school because 90% of it is applying our company specific css to create PDFs, and you can only learn once you are on the job. My company wants the prestige of being a "high tech" company, however so they've hired me at a 6 figure plus salary to do this job and in the interview pretended that it was going to involve the modern front end stack and building and maintaining containerization.
It's a pointless job in that the work that is done doesn't give any benefit other than aggrandizing one of the managers in my chain to their own manager.
Yes it has a point to someone, that literally being a singular someone, but is the waste generated by my job worth it? Why am I paid several times more than someone making minimum wage, when any random person can do the job, just to satisfy a single person?
The answer is because they currently have the economic power to create and keep this position, but that's not a moral reason and it's not an efficient reason.
Thank you for voicing the truth. I experienced the same. I made most of my fortune doing practically nothing. I also did lots of real and "fake" work that produced me just "get along by" income.
It's a shit show out there but people holding high income don't want to admit it. People on the other end either think we are stealing from them or we are wizards of the world.
The truth is that we had an equal chance to fall on one bunch or the other. It is practically a random, hazardous distribution that happens to work better than socialism.
Even if your job is to literally rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic, it may not be pointless at all for that person or for those who enjoy the fruits of the labor.
People not only need jobs, they want them.
Many people get great satisfaction in doing a good job, earning money, and supporting themselves and family.
Pretty much anything you do is "pointless" by someone's subjective opinion. I mean, we are all going to burn up from sun exposure in a few billion years anyway.