There is a pandemic of "meaningless work" in progress [of course it has been around for over 100 years] and there is only one vaccine that will arrest it [see photo]. The vaccine is YOU. It is the YOU who seeks to produce "Use Value" for yourself and for others.
Most "meaningless work" is an integral part of the "value adding" process that is willing to pay you to fit [or just to fit in]. Most "value adding" work is meaningless because the part that YOU do is only truly valued if it is part of a process [the classic image of this the 1908 Ford Factory assembly line] that is only truly valuable when all the parts of it are completed. That is why most "meaningless work" lives, and thrives, inside a adding value process in which YOU are a mere cog not a truly valued contributor to "meaningful work".
If YOU can work at home, or from home, then it is most likely that YOU are engaged in a process that hides "meaningless work". Perhaps this is one of the reasons that many workers are quitting their jobs [or not returning to their former workplaces] as the full impact of the Covid virus retreats.
Life is a full of cul de sacs and "meaningless work" is one of the worst of them.
Richard.
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