maybe in absolute concrete terms

Not even then.

More than half of societal work is pointless, both large parts of some jobs and five types of entirely pointless jobs:

• Flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants, store greeters;
• Goons, who act to harm or deceive others on behalf of their employer, or to prevent other goons from doing so, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists;
• Duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing shoddy code, airline desk staff who calm passengers with lost luggage;
• Box tickers, who create the appearance that something useful is being done when it is not, e.g., survey administrators, in-house magazine journalists, corporate compliance officers;
• Taskmasters, who create extra work for those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals

Most of the “jobs created” over the past two years have been part-time/gig employment anyway. Full-time employment is at a low right now. So yeah this meme is pretty accurate

Great use of the meme. Like for one that gets used alot, and I have enjoyed for both frivolous and serious reasons, this might be one of my favs.

This kinda made me think. We all know the individual today is ‘atomized’ (alienated and isolated from society - in direct contradiction to the aphorism “no man is an island”).

But how many jobs I wonder have become ‘gig-afied’ and atomized, too, so that there are now people working multiple jobs that would previously be one single, well-paying job?