I did retirement home training and used to think it was a sweet job. Then I got in the business and underestimated how demoralizing it was as they give you the easy elders in training while the others make you, or at least me, really think of the fact the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie.
Cops, prison guards, landlords.
Influencers. Just ad extensions.
Papparazi. Fucking leeches
Streamers
Some livestreamers (even big ones) are legitimately fun to watch, but I agree that there are a lot of livestreamers that just do “reaction content” which, while it can be fun (in the same way as Rifftrax/MST3K), isn’t something most streamers put enough effort into to be considered good. Instead it ends up being a low-effort way of generating views.
If you want some good streamers, some of the big streamers I like are people like,
- Vinesauce Vinny: Unhinged but chill New York Italian streamer who likes corrupting games (fucking with the ROM/RAM while the game is running) and laughing at unhinged 80’s and 90’s video game commercials; in a band with Jabroni Mike and he’s also known as “binyot”.
- Jabroni Mike: Unhinged and not chill New York Italian streamer who loves dredging up YouTube content slop to laugh at; in a band with Vinny and he’s also known as “Cumchugger”.
- Vargskelethor: Absolutely unhinged swedish metalhead who lives in a public toilet where he points and laughs at people while they take a shit (very childish sense of humor, but a lot of fun to watch because you never know what to expect); in a metal band called Scythelord along with a self-titled solo project. Also known as Joel, Yo-ell, Jobel, fecalfunny.com, etc.
- Jerma985: a fucking psycho in semi-retirement; best known for his irl streams like the Dollhouse (IRL Sims with chat controlling Jerma), baseball stream (put together two fictional baseball teams for a livestreamed baseball game), carnival stream (he had chat-controlled robots to let chat play the games),
archeologygeology stream, Who Will Replace Me?, and so on. - Laimu/Limealicious: vtuber affiliated with Vinesauce, “”“wholesome”“” streamer.
- Fredrik Knudsen: Yes, the “Down the Rabbit Hole guy” also has a twitch channel.
- WhiskeyDing0: another vtuber, this time furry as fuck, but he plays a lot of indie horror games and sometimes organizes VRChat game shows with other furry streamers; also probably the biggest furry streamer right now. Great way to find new indie horror games.
- Jall: furry “fleshtuber” with an absolutely insane setup designed to try and recreate the feeling of watching a YouTube poop, except it’s live. Warning: consume in small doses; his streams are a sensory overload like nothing else.
Even if it’s not your thing, I’d highly recommend looking up the stream vods for Jerma’s IRL stuff, it’s brilliant and extremely high-effort.
I don’t like to kink-shame but those all sound like horrible people.
Steamers with like 10-30 people are fun to watch or hangout with, when it’s 7,000 emojis and someone making $100k a month… Meh
How about the entertainment industry as a whole?
Any role at those finance firms that just buy up other companies to eat their profits. What do you provide? Nothing, you take already baked potatoes and make sure all the shredded cheese is scraped off into your gullet and thats it.
That mental image is gold. And yeah, corporate raiders suck.
Vulture Capitalists?
Telephone sanitizers are a completely useless occupation IMHO.
Telephone sanitizers
Ohhh, won’t somebody please think of the Golgafrinchans?
That’s what the Golgafrinchiam people thought and they are no more! Let their fate be a lesson to all who would overlook the importance of telephone hygiene!
I thought it was a giant space goat?
Don’t be ridiculous.
Though, it may have been the 12 foot piranha bees.
Found the Golgafrincham.
Any job working for a PBM (pharmacy benefit manager). Completely unnecessary third party parasites that drive up health care costs.
And maintains the monoplies of big pharma
Personal trainers. Watching other people exercise is not a job.
You may as well be a corporate tax accountant, a ghost writer for the rich or an email scammer in terms of the value you create for society.
Weight training can be super dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can easily do significant damage to your back or knees doing fairly basic exercises like a deadlift or squat incorrectly.
Especially as weight training is increasingly encouraged for the elderly, personal training seems a fairly reasonable job. Admittedly, like any other job, there are folks who provide little to no value (think of the teachers just waiting to collect their pensions) but that’s not to say it can’t be a super useful industry.
I would say many of them are there for a free paycheck yes, but personal trainers are also there to teach people who have never learned how to exercise how to exercise and to encourage them when their friends and family will not, and those are valuable if time limited resources.
It’s also motivation. Sometimes I ask for a few sessions as a birthday present because it’s the only reason I’ll actually go to the gym. Accountability.
I just assume anyone who works at a juvenile prison either molests or beats children.
Had to check myself cause my brain wanted to say “maybe some of them got in there for the right reasons”, which, idk maybe but the incarceration system is garbage and ACAB in the end.
Some of them certainly did. My younger brother, for instance. He’s quite literally a psychopath. There’s no cure for him, no rehabilitation that would fix him. The best that can be done is keeping him out of society for as long as possible. He was in and out of juvie starting at about 11.
Lobbyists
Senior Bribery Logistic Engineers*
What about a lobbyist who works for say the Electronic Frontier Foundation? Or a nurses union. Or who works for the Sierra Club, or some organization trying to protect the environment?
“Lobbying” is just talking to a politician on behalf of a person or group. If the Hollywood studios all hire lobbyists to talk to representatives about why copyright terms should be longer and DRM should be mandatory, doesn’t it make sense that there should be people telling the other side?
I get that too often lobbyists overstep ethical boundaries. Often, they either effectively bribe politicians, or they write up laws allowing the politician to just rubber-stamp them. But, you could shore up and/or enforce laws restricting that kind of thing, while still allowing a representative of a group to meet with a politician and explain their point of view.
Yeah, I mean the bribery kind. We need to overturn Citizens United
CEOs
CEOs are fine, you need someone to steer the ship.
However don’t pay them a bazzilion bucks while eveyone else gets pennies.
I’m okay with Chief executive officers. I’m not okay with publicly traded companies.
If I were to start a business I would like to be allowed to run that business. But I think any business that goes public and starts trading on the stock market has sold out completely and totally and no longer has any intrinsic value.
They always do it for a temporary injection of money and they always end up enshittifying as they inevitably have to satisfy the investors who gave them the money.
Publicly traded companies blow my mind a little bit.
It’s not enough to make steady, consistent profits. Give out reliable quarterly dividends and make it so your investors make their money back plus a little extra over time. Free money is not enough for the ownership class.
Growth isn’t enough either. Buying something for X and selling it for 1.1X so you make money even without a dividend isn’t enough for the investor class.
You have to grow infinitely. You have to grow faster than everyone else. You have to beat the projections. Make your product smaller and shittier & sell it for the same price. Lay off 10% of your workforce after record profits to cut costs. Force ads and subscriptions and data mining into every possible space. Undercut your smaller competitors until they fold, then jack up your prices. Break the law, fuck over your workers, buy out politicians, move your production lines to countries with no labor laws.
Being publicly traded actively rewards evil and anti-human behavior.
https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/
TL;DR: the entire point of incorporation was supposed to be for public benefit, and it’s been perverted into a sociopathic entitlement instead. Perhaps even worse, the notion of “corporate personhood” wasn’t even the legitimate decision of legislators or judges, but a fucking clerical error that subsequently got treated as gospel!
Advertisers. For-profit advertisers mostly. They intentionally skew people’s understanding of the world for the benefit (usually) of the rich.
Any position in the for profit medical payment processing profession, it should be single payer through taxes instead.
Any investment position that exists to leech money out of successful companies instead of providing cash to improve the business. Basically any part of.a vulture capital firm.
Any pseudo pretend medical profession that has decades without evidence it works like chiropractors. I’m fine with mediums and other charlatans that at least put up a ‘for entertainment purposes only’ sign and don’t have a history of causing injuries to their clientel.
Anything involving targeted advertising since it relies on scooping up personal data.
Debt collectors. The businesses took the risk when they loaned money or provided some kind of service on credit. Selling debt to collectors who maliciously lie and guilt people into paying money they don’t really owe or tricking them into paying debt that would disappear after a period of time is horrible. There are no respectable debt collection companies.
This is pretty much my list. Middlemen. I wouldn’t say absolutely without value but it’s gotten out of hand.
There are some middlemen positions that add value, like many distributors who smooth out the transportation between manufacturing and retail, but there sure are a lot that insert themselves into the supply chain to suck money out without adding anything.
Debt collectors. The businesses took the risk when they loaned money or provided some kind of service on credit.
I don’t use debt collectors any more, but I have a construction company and a few times a year people just decide not to pay for their work. If someone really truly refuses to pay I could take them to small claims court, and I have, but it’s a ton of work and lawyers won’t bother with anything under 10k. I’ve literally had a judge say “so petty” about me taking someone through small claims for a $1200 they’d been dodging for years So some jerk can stiff me for $1500 and I have basically no recourse. I’m not talking about some impoverished person who I took advantage of, these are people with nice homes who make a habit of not paying bills. I’ll work with people who are short on cash and honest.
Even though debt collectors are 0/3 in the times I’ve used them, it’s at least something to fire off a final ‘fuck you and your credit’
Even though debt collectors are 0/3 in the times I’ve used them, it’s at least something to fire off a final ‘fuck you and your credit’
What a glowing recommendation!
Cops
Managers without empathy.
Sounds a bit like doctors without borders now when I think about it, it’s maybe already a clan.
