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To my dear readers, I want you to understand that the idea in this post has a lot of moving parts—like a machine—and it’s a lot to pack into one piece. I’ll write complementary posts later on. Alright, let’s begin.

First, we have to define what necessary and unnecessary jobs actually are.

A necessary job is integral to the basic mechanics of human survival and community living. An unnecessary job is one that could completely disappear tomorrow, and society wouldn’t miss it. Simply put: if a job only exists to fix a problem that someone intentionally created, that job is unnecessary.

Moving forward, clear examples of necessary jobs are:

Hairdressing (people will always have hair that needs styling)

Musicians and Artists (there will always be a need for songs and words that capture human reality)

Builders and Engineers (we will always need housing, farm tools, and real technology)

Agriculturalists and Food Producers

Healthcare Workers and Therapists

Authors and News Reporters

Examples of unnecessary jobs, on the other hand, include massive defense bureaucracies, career politicians, bottled water companies, and endless layers of administrative enforcement—NSYC officials (No need for many employees if NYSC is made optional. I've written about this topic), pastors etc

To see how unnecessary jobs are born, you have to look at how modern systems thrive on sabotage and manufactured problems.

Phase 1: Corporate Sabotage and the Fake Economy
Look at how tech giants like Apple operate. Is it true success when a company intentionally sabotages its own older devices through software updates, or builds phones with bizarre, proprietary screws just so regular technicians can’t open them?

Because of that intentional design flaw, a completely new industry had to be created: companies that manufacture specialized screwdrivers just to open one brand of phone. Suddenly, phone repair costs skyrocket because the job has been made artificially “sophisticated.” The same goes for fragile glass screens that cost a fortune to replace. Factories build these screens, employing thousands of people, and economic analysts celebrate it as “job creation.” But in reality, it’s just employment birthed from corporate sabotage.

The global military industry works the exact same way. Governments spend trillions of taxpayers’ dollars on fighter jets and war machinery that can be destroyed in minutes. Defense ministries know that if world peace becomes the goal, their budget disappears. So what happens? Conflicts are manufactured. The problem is created by the very same entity selling the solution.

Phase 2: Local Government and the Illusion of Progress
When a government doesn't know how to build a functioning society, it resort to creating problems that it can solve to justify its existence. ""Without the government, the country would go into chaos" lol. How surprised you'd be to find out that it's the same government you think is necessary that's causing most of the chaos.

Take the NYSC scheme in Nigeria. The country forces young citizens into a mandatory year of service under the threat of denying them standard employment. To manage this forced program, thousands of administrative jobs, security roles, and official positions are created. Millions of Naira are spent. But are any of these jobs actually necessary if NYSC were simply made optional?

If you want a concrete, everyday example of this madness, look at the streets of Lagos—places like Ogba or Iju-ishaga.

There are pedestrian walkways designed for people to walk safely. But local authorities start selling "tickets" and permits to roadside hawkers to set up shops on those very walkways. Naturally, pedestrians are pushed off the walkway and forced to walk on the main road. This causes massive human and vehicular traffic.

Instead of banning the ticket sales and clearing the walkways, what does the government do? They build a traffic light or post traffic wardens to "manage" the chaos! They talk about road expansion. Lol. They created a problem, sold a permit, caused a traffic disaster, and then spent money hiring people to fix the traffic they caused. And if you point this out, people call you an enemy of progress because you're "trying to stop people—the road side traders from making a living."

We see this same pattern in massive religious and administrative bodies like the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). Instead of promoting true spiritual peace, these bureaucracies often exist to defend institutional territory—like fighting for the "right" to blast loud speakers in a quiet street or preach on public buses, totally disregarding the freewill and peace of the passengers around them, even if these passengers practice another religion. These organizations employ security, drivers, and administrative staff, but having a payroll doesn't make an institution moral or necessary.

Phase 3: The Economic Fallacy
This brings us to the biggest illusion of all: Capitalism and Productivity.

What is the point of a government boasting about raising the national minimum wage when it refuses to fix electricity, security, or basic food production? Increasing the wage is just a lazy band-aid so citizens can afford artificially inflated goods. If you targeted the root cause of inflation—if you fixed the infrastructure—the price of living would drop, and nobody would be begging for a wage increase. Shouldn't we care more about what money can buy than the paper money itself?

Capitalism was originally useful for scaling up the production of necessary things by putting tools into the hands of citizens. But capitalism was meant to be a phase. Once basic societal needs are met, the endless drive for "growth" becomes toxic. Yet, shifting to socialism doesn't fix it either if the people running the government are just as vain and self-serving. No economic system works when the culture is built on arrogance and an absence of love

We have been conditioned to attach our entire human worth to "productivity." We treat an unemployed person like a broken piece of machinery because they aren't generating money. But your value as a human being comes from your presence and your humanity, not your output in a factory or an office.

The Personal Reality: Destiny Displacement
Think about your own day-to-day life.

The clothes I’m wearing right now while writing this were given to me as a gift by a close friend. On the open market, they’re worth maybe ₦12,000. I could have spent a grueling week doing hard factory labor just to earn that ₦12,000 to buy them. But because I was humble enough to express a need to someone who cared, I received them directly. I saved a whole week of my life by going directly to what I needed, rather than chasing the money that can get me clothes.

When you step back and look at the modern workforce, you have to ask yourself: If this job I do every day was only created because of a flaw in the system, what is it doing to my life?

I call these "destiny-displacing jobs."

They are artificial routines created because society doesn't know what to do with human beings when they are quiet. We were never taught the philosophy or power of simply being at peace with ourselves. We built an entire global economy on the fear of being idle, creating millions of fake problems just to keep billions of people too tired to ask who they really are.

A government that boasts about "creating jobs" without asking if those jobs are actually necessary is not succeeding. It is simply creating a problem that it has prepared an even problematic solution for, to further justify the necessity of its office in the mind of its citizens

Thank you for reading.

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No job is unnecessary
If it were ppl would not pay for it

Reverseng:
To my dear readers, I want you to understand that the idea in this post has a lot of moving parts— like a machinery, and it's a lot to put into one post/package. I'll try to include supporting links as a means to complement a point when necessary. Alright. We begin

First, i have to define what necessary and unnecessary jobs are

A necessary job is one which is integral to the running mechanics of people in a society, while unnecessary jobs are those in which if they collapse won't be missed. Simply put.

Some nannies/child care professional are likely to go out of jobs if most mothers begin also marry the staying at home to take care of this kids and aren't necessarily competing with men in masculine jobs, and the output of a man's toil in a 4hr work day is enough to keep a household in order.
Or when the workplace is restructured in a way that feminine roles aren't encroached by masculine authories (example nursing) and a 4hr workday for both men and women is normalized so both genders can have quality time to take care of activities that are related to their jobs—their household.

Some graphics designers are likely to go out of jobs when AI begin to create realistic images which the masses begin to get accustomed to without feeling threatened that they'd go out of jobs or when they release the arrogance to take claim for the “toil of if their work” when need not be.

Soldiers/ Defence ministries around the world are likely to go out of jobs when peace becomes the goal and the needlessness of killing to achieve an aim becomes celebrated. Defence ministries know this, and this was what gave rise to planned wars — an excuse for continuous money creation over disposable machineries that wars can destroy in minutes. Since the problems aren't forthcoming, or takes time to come, the problem has to be created by the one also selling the solution.

The mere act of forcing citizens to love another tribe by participating in a scheme called NYSC with the threat of not getting a standard job in the workforce, created the needless need of employing NYSC officials, security operatives and other jobs in the thousands, if not millions!
Now jobs have been created. But are these jobs necessary if NYSC was made optional?
https://www.nairaland.com/8555582/nysc-reform-suggestions

Moving forward, an example of necessary jobs are hairdressing (people will always have hair and they'll need it to be styled)
singer (there'd always be a different lyrics that speak to the people about the realities of life)
Philosophical Engineers (Structures like houses, farm tools, important gadgets will need to be built or modified until there's no need, not those categories of engineers who purposely sabotage structures because of job insecurity)
Travel bodies and transport mechanists
Agriculturalists
Healthcare
News reporting
Massage people, therapists
Authors

While examples of unnecessary jobs are

The Police, Army
Politicians
Bottle water/Pure water Companies
Powdered Milk companies, and so on.


Any job whatsoever that thrives on the sabotage of their products just to ensure repeated consumerism falls under this 'Unnecessary Job” Category

Look at how successful the iPhone company claim they are. Is that true success when they purposely sabotage including both software and hardware updates all at once to their phones, or when Iphone makes it hard for consumers to repair their phones by purposely creating sophisticated screws that makes it difficult for an average phone repair person to find their way through opening the phone. A 'right to repair movement' has even been created for that abnormality!

The after effects of the actions of iPhone will create a need for a different screwdriver which have to be created to match the screws of iPhone. This leads to the creation of a screwdriver company.
That action by iPhone will also increase the phone repair cost for iPhone users because it's now tagged a "sophisticated phone" by virtue of the “suffering to open a phone” it has created in the society.

Let's not even talk about the price of screen of these high end phones being advertised now. The job of screen replacement and screen creation factories was birthed off the idea of a sabotage in the quality of phone screens. Now a screen creation company has been created which employs millions of citizens. A headline that gets people celebrating before now.

A world where trillion of nairas and dollars of forced "taxpayers money"—are being invested in fighter jets and other war machineries that can easily be shot down, cannot seek to ease the suffering of their citizens—by creating better policies—but can risk the lives of millions, who of course are willing to commit suicide for a senseless cause of defending their "mother land". Just a place they were born into which they falsely claim as their undetachable identity.

This might sound all confusing at first so let's look at relatable local examples that could hit home.

There are pedestrian walkways on each side of a road for incoming and outgoing pedestrians. Now Imagine when tickets—the permission to sell goods on pedestrian walkways!—are being sold to hawkers to display their goods on both sides of those pedestrian walkways! An action which then leads to both vehicular and human traffic. Go to popular bus stops like that of ogba and ishaga, in Lagos, and you'll see for yourself.
Now Imagine the government in its wisdom, after analysing the problem, decides to build a traffic light to control the flow of traffic — traffic that was caused because now that those pedestrian walkways have been taken over, pedestrians like you and I, will be forced to encroach on the actual road in order to find our way.

Now Imagine someone calls for the abolishment of road side traders and a ban of ticket sales that 'legally' encourage this act. That person would be seen by most as an enemy of progress!

"Ooh. He's against our shops. He doesn't want us to make money to feed our family"

Another example is the creation of the Christian association of Nigeria which was an error and should be classified as an unnecessary association that only seems to promote disunity and chaos as it stands. Imagine an association fighting the ban of preaching in buses—a nuisance and a blatant disrespect of people's freewill, especially those of other religions who could be in that bus—because they "violently took the offence and pocketed it thinking it's an attack against them. Remember, for one to take offense, it must have been given. If one sees it as nothing was given, they can't be compelled to take nothing.

Imagine fighting against the ban of preaching in buses, without caring about the various religious affiliations of the passengers in that bus.
Some might be Muslim or atheist for all we know.
But this 'Christians association: don't care. They love to point fingers at Muslims Jihadist who 'innocently' seek to make Islam popular by spilling blood—calling them all sorts of names, forgetting that they as Christians too are violating the freewill of passengers by preaching a message, which most likely don't reflect in their lives as preachers, but also makes them the very ‘Jihadist’ they think they're better than.

I say this Racism= Religious Superiority= Tribal superiority. And all these pettiness are rooted in arrogance — the need to not feel equal to your fellow man but superior.

In a sane society, all religious institutions would be soundproof.
https://www.nairaland.com/8542807/error-conventional-envangelism#137175894

People would go and seek out the preacher, not the preacher disturbing the neighborhood with loud microphones and bells, regardless of how inspiring they think their message is or would be to the disturbed. Link

Rapists don't care about the mood or readiness of their numerous victims. They rape regardless. What's the difference between the rapists and these religious institutions who don't care about the religious affiliations or unreadiness of people to listen to their message.

An association such a Christian body that disregard the freewill of others should never have been made to see the light of the day. This body has definitely employ numerous workers in its stead ranging from security, drivers, administrative services, and so on. But are these employment moral, regardless of if they appear legal?
But because something is legal doesn't mean it's moral to involve yourself in. Abortion is legal for sure, but is it normal to kill another woman being because you've allowed yourself to be deceived to call it a foetus instead of human like you


From the little I've written here, you begin to ask yourself — what's the point of a society that promotes entrepreneurship when there's no need for it or when entrepreneurship cause more harm than good to society?

In a developing society, capitalism was created as a necessity for massive expansion of value creation/necessary product, by handing the power of production to citizens, but capitalism itself should be a bubble which when burst, should be celebrated because its aims have been achieved, and that's when socialism should kick in.
Vain humans, majority of whom we encounter in Nigeria, who haven't understood the concept of love and true service should not be made to be in charge of manufacturing or production as capitalism dictates, neither should vain/insecure government either through
Socialism. Democracy or other forms of power structures only work when the people are of one accord.

You might not truly understand the depth of this message until you walk into a governmental office unannounced— same way Jigawa governor recently did at state secretariat.
Some jobs are not necessary.
Some problems aren't serious. They just take on the appearance of seriousness.

What's the point of increasing the minimum wage of a country when you could instead improve electricity, security and food production? The wage was increased so the citizens can afford the inflated price of goods. But if the root of those inflations were targeted, would there be any need to increase minimum wage?
Shouldn't the things that money can buy be attractive than the money itself!?

What's the point of claiming with pride that the properties you own, you bought with “your hard earned money”?
You could have been gifted, if you were humble or vulnerable enough to show select people that you were in need of something, instead of working your life away, pridefully in stressful jobs.

The clothes I'm wearing while typing this piece was given to me by a close friend. Market worth, I could say they're #12k.
I could have worked myself away to earn that #12k, and I'm talking a week of factory work—but was there need for that?
I humbly asked, and instead of no, I received a Yes, luckily for me. Now I have saved hours of my life by actually chasing the things that money can buy(clothes) and not the money itself.

Job creation are not necessary, not just from the perspective of the creator/entrepreneur, but also from the perspective of the worker who chooses to engage in such unnecessary job.

As a worker, you should attempt to ask yourself, “if this job isn't necessary, but was created, then it means I'm working a job that isn't necessary. What then was my original purpose in this life, because it surely wasn't this job THAT ISN'T ORIGINAL.
This is why I call some jobs “destiny displacing”
It was uncalled for. They are abnormal. We created them because we were uncomfortable staying at home being idle, thinking that “an idle mind” is the devil's workshop.
We haven't been taught the true Philosophy and power of being alone with ourselves.
We as humans have attached our value to productivity alone, in the sense that an unemployed person is seen as a problem of the society since they aren't contributing value. But we forget that our value as humans alone is presence and humanity.
By attaching our value to productivity alone, we invariably attached it to the output of the productivity—money—an economic illusion which doesn't actually represent the blood and sweat we put into earning it.

So there you have it, dear readers
Once again, this is a lot to put into one post, but I had to get it out.
This could be like a Masters Research topic in social science with hundreds of pages explaining the domino effects that may seem unrelated at first glance.

I trust it meets you well

MIKOLOWISKA:
No job is unnecessary
If it were ppl would not pay for it

One of the most inane comments I've ever read on NL. Governments create totally unnecessary jobs all the time and pay for them - sometimes used as reward for political support.
OP is making a good point

Preachhhh. Lolzzz
Suffering is relative, QuinQ. Some have eyes yet they refuse to see. Some have built their life off the lies, and to change would mean admitting that a part of their life is a lie. The admittance plus the changing isn't quite easy for everyone

QuinQ:
One of the most inane comments I've ever read on NL. Governments create totally unnecessary jobs all the time and pay for them - sometimes used as reward for political support.
OP is making a good point

QuinQ:
One of the most inane comments I've ever read on NL. Governments create totally unnecessary jobs all the time and pay for them - sometimes used as reward for political support.
OP is making a good point

Also add traders.

In this digital age with AI drone deliveries straight from the factory, no need for middlemen.

QuinQ:
One of the most inane comments I've ever read on NL. Governments create totally unnecessary jobs all the time and pay for them - sometimes used as reward for political support.

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See how you fail exam
Govt is paying cos it needs support.
Which school you go?

OP is making a good point

Government don't create jobs but conducive environment for jobs to thrive.

The writer wrote a book without even understanding the subject of discussion

Chai

Reverseng:
Preachhhh. Lolzzz
Suffering is relative, QuinQ. Some have eyes yet they refuse to see. Some have built their life off the lies, and to change would mean admitting that a part of their life is a lie. The admittance plus the changing isn't quite easy for everyone

What about all these silly content creation jobs all over the internet now? Aren't they also unnecessary jobs that could disappear anytime?

MIKOLOWISKA:
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See how you fail exam
Govt is paying cos it needs support.
Which school you go?

Which support? Example, you help Tinubu get reelected, he makes you 2nd assistant deputy, media, in the office of the 2nd assistant deputy of wardrobe of the director of communications!

Thoroughly read the post and the complementary posts attached and you'll see that you can answer this question you just asked

Predictor3:
What about all these silly content creation jobs all over the internet now? Aren't they also unnecessary jobs that could disappear anytime?

QuinQ:
Which support? Example, you help Tinubu get reelected, he makes you 2nd assistant deputy, media, in the office of the 2nd assistant deputy of wardrobe of the director of communications!

did you get your support or not? Can he win without your(ministers, governors, agbero, voters, judges etc) support or not

Reverseng:
To my dear readers, I want you to understand that the idea in this post has a lot of moving parts

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Not really

—like a machine—and it’s a lot to pack into one piece. I’ll write complementary posts later on. Alright, let’s begin.

First, we have to define what necessary and unnecessary jobs actually are.

A necessary job is integral to the basic mechanics of human survival and community living. An unnecessary job is one that could completely disappear tomorrow, and society wouldn’t miss it. Simply put: if a job only exists to fix a problem that someone intentionally created, that job is unnecessary.

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Wrong
Is sex not necessary
Hence prostitutes

Moving forward, clear examples of necessary jobs are:

Hairdressing (people will always have hair that needs styling)

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By your definition
We can survive without hair dressers

Musicians and Artists (there will always be a need for songs and words that capture human reality)

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Same as above

Builders and Engineers (we will always need housing, farm tools, and real technology)

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Cavemen survived without these for centuries

Agriculturalists and Food Producers

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Hunter gatherers was a thing for millenia

Healthcare Workers and Therapists

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All made up like you claim

Authors and News Reporters

Examples of unnecessary jobs, on the other hand, include massive defense bureaucracies,

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So no need for army, really dude?

career politicians,

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I agree with this one
All hail anarchy

bottled water companies,

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Water is life

and endless layers of administrative enforcement—NSYC officials (No need for many employees if NYSC is made optional. I've written about this topic), pastors etc

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Meh
Debatable
NYSC was for national unity which I think it achieved

To see how unnecessary jobs are born, you have to look at how modern systems thrive on sabotage and manufactured problems.

Phase 1: Corporate Sabotage and the Fake Economy
Look at how tech giants like Apple operate. Is it true success when a company intentionally sabotages its own older devices through software updates, or builds phones with bizarre, proprietary screws just so regular technicians can’t open them?

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The customers aren't complaining
They refuse alternatives
Feeling superior is a need
Why ppl but designer stuff

Because of that intentional design flaw, a completely new industry had to be created: companies that manufacture specialized screwdrivers just to open one brand of phone. Suddenly, phone repair costs skyrocket because the job has been made artificially “sophisticated.” The same goes for fragile glass screens that cost a fortune to replace. Factories build these screens, employing thousands of people, and economic analysts celebrate it as “job creation.” But in reality, it’s just employment birthed from corporate sabotage.

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Nobody forcing you to buy them
I don't
I buy cheap things

The global military industry works the exact same way. Governments spend trillions of taxpayers’ dollars on fighter jets and war machinery that can be destroyed in minutes.

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Would you rather be a slave to another country?

Defense ministries know that if world peace becomes the goal, their budget disappears. So what happens? Conflicts are manufactured. The problem is created by the very same entity selling the solution.

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What are you going to do about it?
Remain defenseless did not work for Africans or jews and now Gaza ppl.

Phase 2: Local Government and the Illusion of Progress
When a government doesn't know how to build a functioning society, it resort to creating problems that it can solve to justify its existence. ""Without the government, the country would go into chaos" lol. How surprised you'd be to find out that it's the same government you think is necessary that's causing most of the chaos.

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Again
Nobody stopping you from running for office and being perfect

Take the NYSC scheme in Nigeria. The country forces young citizens into a mandatory year of service under the threat of denying them standard employment.

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Wrong
Standard govt employment
You can survive without govt work if you are competent but most of you are not so......

To manage this forced program, thousands of administrative jobs, security roles, and official positions are created. Millions of Naira are spent. But are any of these jobs actually necessary if NYSC were simply made optional?

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It is optional
Only 3 million graduates have gone through it
Our piloted is 200million
Are ppl not surviving without NYSC?

If you want a concrete, everyday example of this madness, look at the streets of Lagos—places like Ogba or Iju-ishaga.

There are pedestrian walkways designed for people to walk safely. But local authorities start selling "tickets" and permits to roadside hawkers to set up shops on those very walkways. Naturally, pedestrians are pushed off the walkway and forced to walk on the main road. This causes massive human and vehicular traffic.

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What's your point
You voted for the govt
Vote them out

Instead of banning the ticket sales and clearing the walkways, what does the government do? They build a traffic light or post traffic wardens to "manage" the chaos! They talk about road expansion. Lol. They created a problem, sold a permit, caused a traffic disaster, and then spent money hiring people to fix the traffic they caused. And if you point this out, people call you an enemy of progress because you're "trying to stop people—the road side traders from making a living."

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Boom
The ppl have spoken
You are in the minority
When in rome, avoid ped bridges.

We see this same pattern in massive religious and administrative bodies like the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). Instead of promoting true spiritual peace, these bureaucracies often exist to defend institutional territory—like fighting for the "right" to blast loud speakers in a quiet street or preach on public buses, totally disregarding the freewill and peace of the passengers around them, even if these passengers practice another religion. These organizations employ security, drivers, and administrative staff, but having a payroll doesn't make an institution moral or necessary.

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Actually it does
Demand and supply
Also the ppl can go to court to ban the loudspeakers

Phase 3: The Economic Fallacy
This brings us to the biggest illusion of all: Capitalism and Productivity.

What is the point of a government boasting about raising the national minimum wage when it refuses to fix electricity, security, or basic food production?

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What is the point of waiting for human beings that are not your friend or family to raise your minimum wage or produce food and security for you. Are you their slave master?

Increasing the wage is just a lazy band-aid so citizens can afford artificially inflated goods. If you targeted the root cause of inflation—if you fixed the infrastructure—the price of living would drop, and nobody would be begging for a wage increase.

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What is stopping you from fixing the infra
Does dangote or Mtn have 2 heads

Shouldn't we care more about what money can buy than the paper money itself?

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What is stopping you from entering the farm or factory
You a grown adult with agency

Capitalism was originally useful for scaling up the production of necessary things by putting tools into the hands of citizens. But capitalism was meant to be a phase. Once basic societal needs are met, the endless drive for "growth" becomes toxic.

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So you don't like growth ba?
You my top remain stagnant
You don't want to compete?
Toxic is a gay word
Just say you're lazy

Yet, shifting to socialism doesn't fix it either if the people running the government are just as vain and self-serving. No economic system works when the culture is built on arrogance and an absence of love

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Capitalism works tho
Nobody is stopping you from loving o

We have been conditioned to attach our entire human worth to "productivity."

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Nobody is conditioned to do anything
Nobody is stopping you from going to live in the forest only producing what you need o

We treat an unemployed person like a broken piece of machinery because they aren't generating money. But your value as a human being comes from your presence and your humanity, not your output in a factory or an office.

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That human being will consume at least 1 yam per day
Where will that food fall from if somebody does not produced it
That's 365 yams o a full grown adult can cultivate about 4000 teams with how and cutlass
What's his excuse for being unproductive besides laziness. Who is his slave that will be feeding him for how long

The Personal Reality: Destiny Displacement
Think about your own day-to-day life.

The clothes I’m wearing right now while writing this were given to me as a gift by a close friend. On the open market, they’re worth maybe ₦12,000. I could have spent a grueling week doing hard factory labor just to earn that ₦12,000 to buy them. But because I was humble enough to express a need to someone who cared, I received them directly. I saved a whole week of my life by going directly to what I needed, rather than chasing the money that can get me clothes.

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Why is you so low production
48k a month is mentally lazy

When you step back and look at the modern workforce, you have to ask yourself: If this job I do every day was only created because of a flaw in the system, what is it doing to my life?

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You can quit any time

I call these "destiny-displacing jobs."

They are artificial routines created because society doesn't know what to do with human beings when they are quiet. We were never taught the philosophy or power of simply being at peace with ourselves. We built an entire global economy on the fear of being idle, creating millions of fake problems just to keep billions of people too tired to ask who they really are.

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Food shelter security health and entertainment are not fake problems

A government that boasts about "creating jobs" without asking if those jobs are actually necessary is not succeeding. It is simply creating a problem that it has prepared an even problematic solution for, to further justify the necessity of its office in the mind of its citizens

Thank you for reading.

this is why govt(socialism) is and capitalism works cos nobody will supply what isn't demanded by the market. But govt will spend your money to fill their pockets with a commission hence useless govt jobs that produce nothing useful

MIKOLOWISKA:
did you get your support or not? Can he win without your(ministers, governors, agbero, voters, judges etc) support or not

My friend, point is, they do create meaningless positions. Nobody needs 2nd assistant director of wardrobe!

QuinQ:
My friend, point is, they do create meaningless positions. Nobody needs 2nd assistant director of wardrobe!

meaningless to you does not equal meaningless to them.
You need sycophants to win elections

Voting is their job
Their vote and support has value to the Pol and by extension all who voted for said pol as they need ppl who will do the actual campaign footwork that most voters are to willing to delegate.
This is how we end up with ministries of women, youth and happiness

MIKOLOWISKA:
meaningless to you does not equal meaningless to them.
You need sycophants to win elections

Voting is their job
Their vote and support has value to the Pol and by extension all who voted for said pol as they need ppl who will do the actual campaign footwork that most voters are to willing to delegate.
This is how we end up with ministries of women, youth and happiness

I think you have lost sight of the discussion. We are discussing wether it is possible to create a meaningless position just to reward a political supporter. The answer is YES!

Hi. I feel it necessary to address some unasked questions.

When I write that the sign of a failed government is job creation, from the content of the post, you'll find out that I mean either the government creates unnecessary jobs directly, or create an enabling environment for unnecessary jobs

Secondly, suffering is relative, QuinQ. If you believe your time is so precious, you'll act accordingly to your belief and release yourself from attempting to give snakes legs. Use the content of the post to help yourself. Wake up yourself first. You come first before anybody else

I hope these posts helps

1) Suffering is Relative: Your Attempt To Give Snakes Legs
https://www.nairaland.com/8570195/suffering-relative-attempt-give-snakes#137615904

2) First, Help Yourself
https://www.nairaland.com/8468090/first-self#136004614

I did not fully read the comments of the other party. In a world with a short lifespan, why waste my precious time reading bitterness?
You're the only reason why I'm replying, QuinQ.
Enjoy

QuinQ:
I think you have lost sight of the discussion. We are discussing wether it is possible to create a meaningless position just to reward a political supporter. The answer is YES!

no
We are discussing if you can win without support and if support has a price

MIKOLOWISKA:
no
We are discussing if you can win without support and if support has a price

You really ought leave this discussion and move on. See below

QuinQ:
You really ought leave this discussion and move on. See below

you mean you should

Does the pol need the support or not
Does need mean necessary in English
Is support a job to be rewarded with loot?

Not my fault you struggle with the English language o

MIKOLOWISKA:
you mean you should

Does the pol need the support or not
Does need mean necessary in English
Is support a job to be rewarded with loot?

Not my fault you struggle with the English language o

What the heck is this guy's problem!!! Why can't you understand the simple concept that a fake job can be created?? Even the Mafia does it in contracts they control. They have jobs that are no-show (you don't have to show up at all), then there are jobs that are no-work (you show up but you don't do any work). Bye bye

QuinQ:
What the heck is this guy's problem!!! Why can't you understand the simple concept that a fake job can be created??

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It is you that cannot understand that a job cannot be fake if value exchanges.

Pol needed support he paid for support, support is the job description

Even the Mafia does it in contracts they control. They have jobs that are no-show (you don't have to show up at all), then there are jobs that are no-work (you show up but you don't do any work). Bye bye

but they need the contact to remain in business
Value for value

I felt the need to update the post...the content feels disjointed while reading a second time, and this happens because there's a lot of topic ideas and directions that pops in my head while writing and I try to integrate it into one post. I've found out that this tends to make my posts feel disconnected, hence the need for an updated post. This is not a final edit, neither is it a different one, but I bet you'd feel comfortable reading this version

To my dear readers, I want you to understand that the idea in this post has a lot of moving parts—like a machine—and it’s a lot to pack into one piece. I’ll write complementary posts later on. Alright, let’s begin.

First, we have to define what necessary and unnecessary jobs actually are.

A necessary job is integral to the basic mechanics of human survival and community living. An unnecessary job is one that could completely disappear tomorrow, and society wouldn’t miss it. Simply put: if a job only exists to fix a problem that someone intentionally created, that job is unnecessary.

Moving forward, clear examples of necessary jobs are:

Hairdressing (people will always have hair that needs styling)

Musicians and Artists (there will always be a need for songs and words that capture human reality)

Builders and Engineers (we will always need housing, farm tools, and real technology)

Agriculturalists and Food Producers

Healthcare Workers and Therapists

Authors and News Reporters

Examples of unnecessary jobs, on the other hand, include massive defense bureaucracies, career politicians, bottled water companies, and endless layers of administrative enforcement—like NYSC officials. (As I’ve written about before, there’s no need for thousands of administrative employees if the NYSC scheme is simply made optional). ​To see how these unnecessary jobs are born, you have to look at how modern systems thrive on a foundational rule: they manufacture the problem so they can sell you the solution.

​This machine operates at every level of society, starting with corporate boardrooms. Look at how tech giants like Apple operate. Is it true success when a company intentionally sabotages its older devices through software updates, or builds phones with bizarre, proprietary screws just so regular technicians can’t open them? Because of that intentional design flaw, a completely new, artificial industry had to be created: companies manufacturing specialized screwdrivers just to open one brand of phone. Suddenly, repair costs skyrocket because the job has been made artificially “sophisticated”. Fragile glass screens cost a fortune to replace; factories build them, thousands are employed, and economic analysts celebrate it as brilliant “job creation”. But in reality, it is merely employment birthed from corporate sabotage.

​This exact logic of manufactured conflict scales seamlessly from consumer tech up to global superpowers. Governments spend trillions of taxpayers’ dollars on fighter jets and war machinery that can be destroyed in minutes. Defense ministries know that if global peace actually becomes the goal, their entire budget evaporates. So what happens? Conflicts are manufactured, ensuring the problem is always created by the very same entity selling the protection.

​When local governments don’t know how to build a functioning society, they adopt this exact same parasite logic to justify their own existence. People love to laugh and say, “Without the government, the country would go into chaos”. How surprised you’d be to find out that the government you think is saving you is the primary architect of that chaos.

​Take the NYSC scheme in Nigeria: the state forces young citizens into a mandatory year of service under the threat of denying them standard employment, bloating itself with thousands of administrative and security roles just to manage a program it forced into existence.

Or look closer at the everyday streets of Lagos—places like Ogba or Iju-Ishaga. Pedestrian walkways are explicitly designed for safe human transit. Yet, local authorities sell “permits” to roadside hawkers to set up shops directly on those walkways. Naturally, pedestrians are forced onto the main road, triggering massive vehicular and human gridlock. Instead of canceling the permits and clearing the path, what does the government do? They install traffic lights, post wardens, and talk grandly about expensive road expansions! They sell a permit, cause a disaster, and then charge the public to fix the traffic they engineered. And if you dare point this out, you’re branded an “enemy of progress” trying to stop traders from making a living.

​This defense of artificial turf extends past governance and into institutional religion. Massive bodies like the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) often exist not to foster true spiritual peace, but to defend institutional territory—fighting for the “right” to blast loudspeakers in quiet residential streets or preach aggressively on public buses, totally disregarding the freewill and peace of passengers of other faiths. Having a massive payroll of drivers, security, and administrators doesn’t make an institution moral; it just means it has a large machine to feed.

​All of this structural sabotage feeds directly into the grand illusion of modern capitalism and productivity.

​What is the point of a government boasting about raising the national minimum wage when it deliberately refuses to fix electricity, security, or basic food production? A wage hike is just a lazy band-aid so citizens can chase artificially inflated goods. If you fixed the infrastructure, the cost of living would plummet organically, rendering wage increase debates obsolete. We have been hypnotized into caring more about fluctuating paper money than what that money can actually buy.

These examples of manufactured work are merely symptoms of a much larger global machine—the macroeconomic systems we built to organize human survival.

​Capitalism was originally useful for scaling up the production of necessary things by putting tools into human hands. But it was always meant to be a phase. Once basic societal needs are met, the endless, mindless drive for “growth” turns toxic. Yet shifting to socialism, communism etc, changes nothing if the people running the state remain vain and self-serving. No economic system works when the underlying culture is built on arrogance and an absence of love.

Because these systems all demand systemic utility over the human spirit—treating people as mere fuel for the state or the market—they end up re-engineering how we view our own worth. We absorb the cold logic of the system and turn it inward, treating ourselves like machinery.

But ask yourself an honest question: When a mother holds her newborn child, or when you sit beside a grieving friend, what "productivity" are they generating? What profit did that child make today? None. Yet their existence in that room is infinitely precious to you. You do not love them for their economic output—you value them simply because they are there.

If we already know in our hearts that true value has nothing to do with artificial output when it comes to the people we love, why have we allowed an artificial economy to convince us that our own dignity depends on a payroll?

Your worth as a human being comes from your presence and your humanity, not just your output in a factory or an office.

We have been so thoroughly brainwashed by this economic machine that we’ve forgotten a fundamental truth: money is just a middleman, not the source of human life. We have been tricked into believing that the only way to survive, eat, or dress ourselves is to surrender our precious time to a job—trading our life force for paper currency, just so we can buy back basic human essentials. We’ve forgotten that human needs can be met directly through relationship, goodwill, and love, without feeding the corporate machine.

To see this in plain reality, look at the clothes I’m wearing right now while writing this. They were given to me as a gift by a close friend. Lol…Kenny. On the open market, they are worth maybe ₦12,000. The system tells me I should have spent a grueling week doing hard factory labor, as a factory work that I am at the moment, just to earn that ₦12,000 to buy them. But because I expressed a genuine need to someone who cared, I received the clothes directly. I didn't need the money; I needed what the money could buy. By cutting out the financial middleman, I saved a whole week of my life from being consumed by unnecessary labor.

When you step back and look at the modern workforce through this lens, you are forced to ask yourself a terrifying question: If the job you report to every day only exists because of a manufactured flaw in the system, what is it actually doing to your life? When we trade our precious, unrecoverable life hours just to keep a broken, self-serving machine fed, we aren't just working—we are trading our purpose for a paycheck. I call these​ destiny-displacing jobs—artificial routines propped up because modern society is terrified of quiet human beings. We were never taught or took the time to learn the power of simply being at peace with ourselves; instead, we built a global economy on the fear of idleness, generating millions of fake problems to keep billions of people too exhausted to ever ask who they really are.

​When a government or a corporate entity boasts about “job creation” without ever asking whether those jobs are fundamentally necessary, it is not succeeding. It is simply manufacturing a crisis and offering a more complex, profitable poison as the cure