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Why some workers think their jobs are pointless

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A staggering percentage of the workforce acknowledges their role is entirely meaningless. Coined by anthropologists, this phenomenon highlights how massive corporations invent layers of paper-pushers, compliance checkers, and middle managers strictly to inflate executive egos, creating an economy built entirely on pretending to work.

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