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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Recently finished reading David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs and in it he talks about asking the question who brings social value to society? A lot of rich people do not, especially the super-rich who largely get their wealth from exploitation and rentierism. Having a society that properly values socially-useful people would incentivise more socially-valuable action. Until the people defining what current society's standard of success is move on nothing is going to change.