Very illuminating, thank you! “Jobs below the API” is a neat way to describe the issue. The person controlled by an iPad is an amusing and immediately relatable example of those. A lot of these negative-utility jobs only exist because of the regulations making them mandatory and the lobbies keeping the regulations alive.
Nearly all tax prep jobs are like that, including you using a tax program, since the IRS and its counterparts in other countries already have all the information they need to automate tax filing and refunds for most individuals.
Also, interesting that BAMF didn’t argue with your ideas, just went along with them. Many in his place would consider what you were doing a challenge to their authority and go out of their way to status-slap you.
Very illuminating, thank you! “Jobs below the API” is a neat way to describe the issue. The person controlled by an iPad is an amusing and immediately relatable example of those. A lot of these negative-utility jobs only exist because of the regulations making them mandatory and the lobbies keeping the regulations alive.
Nearly all tax prep jobs are like that, including you using a tax program, since the IRS and its counterparts in other countries already have all the information they need to automate tax filing and refunds for most individuals.
Also, interesting that BAMF didn’t argue with your ideas, just went along with them. Many in his place would consider what you were doing a challenge to their authority and go out of their way to status-slap you.