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You have missed the point. It has nothing to do with coding but everything to do with adding tangible value towards achieving an Objective Goal (Business/Technology/whatever). Hence the Problem Domain and technologies used in the Solution Domain are what matter and everything else is ancillary. The Processes/Methodologies used are only useful in as much as they help us understand the problem domain better and map it…
> You have missed the point. No, I think at least in large part, you missed the point. > It has nothing to do with coding but everything to do with adding tangible value towards achieving an Objective Goal (Business/Technology/whatever). As I understood _Bullshit Jobs,_ "adding tangible value" to some business that doesn't actually add anything of actual (non-monetary) value to the world is bullshit. There are whole…
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs :
... as he describes, five types of entirely pointless jobs: ... 5. Taskmasters, who create extra work for those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals.
In companies, he concludes that the rise of service sector jobs owes less to economic need than to "managerial feudalism", in which employers need underlings in order to feel important and maintain competitive status and power.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_job :
Graeber also formulated the concept of bullshitization, where previously meaningful work turns into a bullshit job through corporatization, marketization or managerialism.