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Wow, this "etiquette expert" grift is more interesting than the article itself. https://www.valerieandcompany.com/
How is this grift? These are all corporate words for "I train existing leaders"
It's very much a real job.
A job who's qualifications comes from news media exposure and being
Is an absolute corporate grift.
21 now. I declare myself a Master Brand Strategist.
Her job is literally to help other people get positive exposure lol
These are real things that people do. She does what a publicist does, only for corporate people. As a CEOs job is literally to attract funding, I'm sure you can see how this is a relevant job.
It really is a recursive situation of uselessness. She goes onto news media to promote her own ability to make execs feel like she can help them promote their own ability. All we achieve is making corporate leaders feel entitled to their position and more money extracted from people actually creating value.
You can hate the system and still recognize that the system has parts.
You don't like that her job has value, and that's fine -but it still has value.
Were you not being literal? Did I just completely misunderstand your post?
I think you just have a structural/functional view of the world that is fundamentally incompatible with how I view it.
Valerie can probably help with that, for a shocking fee
Maybe you see the world on How it Should work, not How it Does work. Those two are not incompatible, unless you confuse one for the other.
What I'm saying is actually a bit more involved than that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_functionalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conflict_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_value_(economics)
We might be thinking of different meanings of the word value. If value means anything that is worth money, then yes she probably is creating value. If value means something that contributes to society and mankind then… Bullshit job.
You're being a bit pedantic by correcting people on it. We get it's a "real job", we're saying that it's BULLSHIT that it's a real job. It's a bullshit job. She's the expert of made up rules that she creates by enforcing and enforces by creating. She makes money, cool, it's a "job" in that sense, but it's a bullshit job.
If someone paid me to shit on the sidewalk every day, would you correct people who said "That's a bullshit job"? "Um it's a real job"
Our entire society functions via made up rules that don't make sense and contradict themselves. Ask literally anyone you know on the Spectrum. As long as society exists roles like this will exist.
There’s no such thing as a “master brand strategist.” Look into David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs theory. Hers is most likely a bullshit job.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs