tapas I define as a job where even the person doing the job secretly believes the job really shouldn't exist but nonetheless part of the conditions of employment is that the applicant dots it's important to distinguish between jobs and ship jobs mostly when you say those jobs people first assume you mean jobs it just you don't do one a half jobs where they don't treat you well so they don't pay well jobs where you work under difficult her a milly a ting or onerous conditions well the jobs are jobs actually horrible jobs most of the jobs
that press you or jobs like cleaners or justice or nurses servants of various kinds BOM who are miss Peter he's done they're doing something which I was actually kind of the opposite of a job you're often given a lot of money you're treated very well great little respect uh seen as you know the the person or your family who most made something of yourself but at the same time you're secretly haunted by the knowledge that they're not actually doing anything that if your job didn't exist at all the world either would change in no way
or even might become slightly better months this is one of the great mysteries of our time as far as I'm concerned because we usually associate make work stupid made-up jobs was a state socialism you know I mean the Soviet Union they used to say well you know we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us see the makeup jobs if you're completely unnecessary that makes sense because they hadn't any ology of full employment on the other hand capitalism that's exactly the thing that isn't supposed to happen a private firm would never hire someone or
put out good money to someone who they don't actually need but in fact if you talk to people who work for large corporations they do it all the time how does that happen I think turneth it has to be explained by political pressure in a way just as in the Soviet Union there's a central directive saying we need full employment insane therefore make up jobs right but they didn't say don't do it in a simpler way we have pressure from both the left and the right to create jobs all the time on the one hand
you have left saying we need like public works we need more money being given to consumers to stimulate the economy on the right they're saying give money to capitalists of all higher people but the one thing left and right totally agree on is a solution to all problems is more jobs but they never save jobs that actually do something jobs are worthwhile anyway it's just assumed that if jobs are created they will necessarily serve a purpose and if you don't specify that if you don't have a self conscious policy of trying to make sure the
jobs actually do something you're gonna end up with useless networked it's just going to happen a lot of bosses people who hire people just get very angry at this had me about this they're about the only people to get angry this promise they say look you know I would never hire someone I think in assertive purpose this is a stupid insulting you don't understand baptism works but this is the last people to know what's really going on I trust people to understand what they're really doing or at least if anybody does they
