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People Explain Which High-Paying Jobs Don't Actually Contribute Much To Society

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Money makes the world go round.

It contributes to the betterment of society.

Well, that is what we're led to believe, right?

That is why so many of these big billion-dollar companies get fabulous tax breaks.

But sadly so many big-money jobs only help themselves.

In fact, a lot of fancy, money careers only focus on the green and not the people.


Redditor ThurnisHailey wanted to discuss the careers that leave little to help the world, so they asked:

"What high-paying jobs contribute very little to society/humanity?"

Anti-Robinhood

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"My sister makes a lot of money in real estate. She helps rich people get even richer."

Ieatalot2004

"To be fair, most jobs are helping rich people get richer."

nBrainwashed

Useless

"As a marketing manager, I can tell you I have one of the most useless jobs in the world."

erose994

"What do you actually do as a marketing manager? I'm just curious."

bertolintus

"Mostly wrangle the opinions of 8,000 people who all think a project should be executed differently and all feel like it needs to be done yesterday. And pass that project through a complicated and overly bureaucratic system of approvals until it inevitably stalls out in a VP's inbox, and you have to send them 3 reminder emails just to get it done."

"Other than that... Talking to agencies (at least where I work, we outsource our graphic design, social media, and advertising work to third parties), building annual strategies, planning social media and email content, and occasionally getting to do something fun like writing a blog post."

"Oh, and managing budgets. But it's budgeting season right now so that's a touchy subject."

erose994

Data Collection

"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."

Weak_Commercial_7124

The Middle

"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."

RedditWhileImWorking

"I honestly think middle management is all about what you make it. If you're motivated and WANT to make things happen for the better, I think you generally can, but it's also very easy as a middle manager to just maintain the status quo and literally do nothing but collect a paycheck."

TinaBelchersBF

Complicated

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"Hospital administration. 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."

dancingbanana123

It's sad to learn hospitals are a scam. Tragic.

Office Time

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"Administrators who spend a lot of time inside an office in calls or meetings but have very little to do with the hands-on work that actually advances stuff."

Ukhupa

Dirt

"I'm using a burner account. 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."

Clean-Elephant9363

Moochers

"During the pandemic, didn't you notice that the 'essential workers' were often paid minimum wage? Seems like the important jobs that actually keep everything running are not being paid much at all, most of the time. All the value of their labor is being sucked out of them by the wealthy moochers who just happen to own the company but never do any work."

Pipboypipboycheerio

Liars

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"Megachurch preachers are evil AF."

MpVpRb

"The fleecing of gullible sheep is a story as old as humanity."

wittie2

Well, people certainly had some feeling about these career paths. What do you think? Do you have anything to add?

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