In every society, specific occupations are highly respected and well-paid. However, what happens when those jobs that command exorbitant salaries fail to make meaningful contributions to the progress of society? This thought-provoking exploration delves into overpaid jobs that seemingly offer little societal betterment.
Marketing Manager
One online forum user shared:
“As a marketing manager, I can tell you I have one of the most useless jobs in the world.”
Influencers
“Pretty sure influencers (still can’t believe it’s a ‘job’) have you [the marketing manager above] beat by a landslide.”
“Social media influencers and anybody who does shows like Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”
Data Collectors
“Some of the best-paid people are figuring out how to collect as much data about you as possible to show you the best adverts. Or how to shave off milliseconds off a trading decision and build better arbitrage strategies to buy and sell the same thing millions of times.”
Real Estate Agents
“My sister makes a lot of money in real estate. She helps rich people get even richer.”
“Real estate agents: we convinced everyone that escrow is confusing and they need help dealing with it.”
Health Insurance Workers
“Health insurance is the worst of the bunch.”
“Doctors who work for health insurance companies. They have a quota of claims denials. As a doctor, their job is to deny health care to patients.”
Software Developers
“As a software developer, I can confirm this. Everything I do is ultimately about reducing costs. Mostly in good ways by reducing opportunities for human error so customers need less customer service, but it’s still about making more money for the people at the top.”
IT Middle Management
“I always thought they did nothing, then I was promoted to one and now I can actually confirm it. Do nothing, contribute nothing. Worthless.”
“Wow, I have been thinking for a long time that my middle manager does nothing. You confirmed that random internet human. Thank you!”
Hospital Administrators
“Obviously, hospitals are important and are complicated systems that need proper management, but any doctor, nurse, etc., can tell you that hospital admins aren’t exactly looking out for your health and safety.”
Hospital CEOs
“My local non-profit hospital’s CEO makes $2 million a year. They pay their nurses $13 an hour and have trouble with staff retention. They keep losing nurses to Cook Out and Lowe’s, which both pay better.”
“The hospital where my wife works, their CEO knows nothing about the medical field. Just paperwork and politics.”
Political Strategy Advisor
“I’m a political strategy advisor, which is code for opposition researcher. I work for a federal government party in my country. I research for gossip or dirt on our political opponents and feed stories to the media to disparage them and have us win elections. I feel all I do is make people more disenchanted with politics.”
Megachurch Preachers
“Megachurch preachers are evil.”
“They don’t contribute, though. They contribute little good. They are parasites!”
HFT Traders
“HFT traders are even more worthless.”
“They literally steal fractions of a penny billions of times a day to make money. Like Superman 3.”
Superintendents
“Superintendent, not that I don’t value public education, it’s just that every superintendent I’ve met has been a 2-bit huckster who doesn’t seem to do any real work.”
“School District Superintendents that earn $175,000 to $400,000 a year. I’m serious. Google it to realize you made the wrong career choice.”
Cold Callers
“Cold caller, essentially calling up random people to bother them and demand they pay for an absolutely useless service.”
Bankers
“I remember there was even an article in The Guardian, right after the GFC, about how bankers’ net contribution to society is negative. That is a nice way of stating that they are parasites.”
OnlyFans
“I disagree because I love them. But successful content creators, aka OnlyFans. I love it. But does it contribute to society? Not really! But again. No issue from me!”
Financial Managers
“All financial management and financial investing and financial trading. Not even worth mentioning anything else other than hospital executives. Landlords are just another financial manager.”
Corporate Lawyers
“It is just market inefficiency. Resources spent purely on how to divide the pie instead of increasing the pie.”
Professional Athletes
“They’re making millions of dollars for playing a game seems to me rather excessive, although I do understand how the business side of sports works…”
“Came here to say this. The fact our entertainers are grossly overpaid while teachers and other essential workers are grossly underpaid is so dystopian.”
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