• Tiresia@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I mean, can you or can you not picture your job being done by a pig wearing clothes in a children’s book?

        Because I can picture a pig with a boater hat and round glasses carrying a pile of half-unspooled film reels, a pair of safety scissors and a roll of tape on their belt.

        And before you complain about it being an old-fashioned depiction, the OOP isn’t exactly how a modern butcher works either.

          • Tiresia@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            3 months ago

            The question isn’t whether someone in the comments section can imagine the job, it’s whether the same ‘you’ who does the job can imagine the job being done by a pig in a children’s book.

            Also, if you’re complaining about it being unfalsibiable, don’t give more examples for them to judge, ask the people defending the joke for counterexamples. That’s just logical (in the literal mathematical sense). That is to say, jobs that can’t be pictured as something done by pigs in children’s books.

            There I would say hedge fund managers, health insurance coverage evaluators, and telemarketers.

            As for looking down on people for just trying to pay their bills, how do you come to that conclusion? Unemployed people and chronically disabled people don’t have real jobs either. Do you look down on them? If not, why assume people are looking down on people who do fake jobs to pay the bills?

            Why do you think this post isn’t pointing to super morally dubious jobs?

      • expatriado@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        It depends. Do you edit videos for pragerU? Or you do something more useful for society like PornHub?

      • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
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        3 months ago

        So as a film editor…my job is bullshit?

        Well, if you can’t imagine a pig wearing clothes doing your job, then yes!

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      you might be a lot less stressed if you stopped caring so much about what randos on the internet think about your job

        • Aqarius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          The weird thing is, my mind also immediately went for “pig in front of computer”, but until this comment chain I didn’t even notice the picture in my head defaulted to the pig stressed out and surrounded by empty cups of coffee.

          Shit.

  • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I can imagine a pig collecting the labour value of the proletariat through his investments in capital and living it up on a yacht with a bunch of cocaine and piggy hookers

  • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I reckon a lot of people would consider my job to not be a real job, but I can imagine a pig sitting in front of a computer just fine.

  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    this has severe conservative energy. the fuck is this even supposed to mean? if you’re paid for it, it’s a job, dumbass. that’s literally the only metric.

      • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        well at least this is a more specific take and, apart from duct tapers, seems roughly sensible in what it’s trying to say, if i understood correctly from my cursory glance, that jobs should be more fulfilling than making the elite feel better.

        but the tweet is doing a very bad job if this is really what they’re alluding to. the tweet’s framing is more similar to reactionary rhetoric against sex work, entertainment and art, clean jobs, and basically anything that’s not coal mining.

        • HelixDab2@lemm.eeEnglish
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          3 months ago

          reactionary rhetoric against sex work

          Oh, I can definitely see an animal doing sex work in a… Not-children’s book. I think that’s the whole idea behind furries.

          • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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            3 months ago

            It’s the “children’s book” bit that’s the important bit though. Basically he’s advocating for a child’s view of the world, where a job requires hitting things with a hammer.

            The irony of course been that the artist who drew that book, presumably wouldn’t be considered to have a worthwhile job by this philosophy.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I think it’s trying to say that intellectual jobs are not jobs. Which is demonstrably not true.

      If all the investment bankers went away we’d probably be fine but if all the cyber security experts went away there’d be a big problem. The job is labour intensive, but one of them is much less important than the other.