Are there any occupations you uniquely oppose the existence of?

Search engine optimizer -- The entire industry, intentionally and with malice aforethought, exists purely to make it more difficult for search engines to provide quality output to search users.

Any job working for a PBM (pharmacy benefit manager). Completely unnecessary third party parasites that drive up health care costs.

Politicians. Don't get me wrong, we do need them, but I strongly oppose the existance of people who never did anything else.

I believe we'd be better off with a new set of randomly chosen citizen every so often. Kinda like jury duty.

Any role at those finance firms that just buy up other companies to eat their profits. What do you provide? Nothing, you take already baked potatoes and make sure all the shredded cheese is scraped off into your gullet and thats it.

Marketing. Anything having to do with marketing.

I'm a big fan of Bill Hicks' philosophy in regards to those people.

Any position in the for profit medical payment processing profession, it should be single payer through taxes instead.

Any investment position that exists to leech money out of successful companies instead of providing cash to improve the business. Basically any part of.a vulture capital firm.

Any pseudo pretend medical profession that has decades without evidence it works like chiropractors. I'm fine with mediums and other charlatans that at least put up a 'for entertainment purposes only' sign and don't have a history of causing injuries to their clientel.

Anything involving targeted advertising since it relies on scooping up personal data.

Debt collectors. The businesses took the risk when they loaned money or provided some kind of service on credit. Selling debt to collectors who maliciously lie and guilt people into paying money they don't really owe or tricking them into paying debt that would disappear after a period of time is horrible. There are no respectable debt collection companies.

Influencers. Just ad extensions.

Telephone sanitizers are a completely useless occupation IMHO.

"influencers" should not exist in their form today. If you are to peddle a brand, you get to be responsible (as in legally liable) for the claims made

Bathroom attendants - since people got all the high value stuff.

I don't mean people that clean the bathroom etc.

I mean the guy that stands at the sink and makes awkward small talk before handing you a towel you could have got yourself and expects a tip.

EDIT: Y'all I'm pretty sure no one's having sex or shooting up in the bathroom at the fucking Eiffel Tower restaurant in Las Vegas ... Coke - probably. I don't know where anyone else has seen a bathroom attendant, but every place I've seen one at I've been wearing a suit...

Advertisers. For-profit advertisers mostly. They intentionally skew people's understanding of the world for the benefit (usually) of the rich.

Paparazzi, insurance companies (and I work in insurance), pay day loan companies/positions, and whoever cooks the chicken at cane's cause that shit be dry as hell.

CEOs

War profiteers. If you work for a company like Raytheon or Lockheed Martin then you are doing an incredible amount of harm to the world and I have even less respect than I have for people in the military. These companies are constantly looking to fuel conflicts, destabilize, and pump all sorts of weapons into every corner of the globe. These people are the true scum of the earth, they are among the worst people who have ever lived.

Gated housing security/executives, HOA

Religious bureaucracy, barker

Pimps

Union busters

Search engine manipulators

Tanning salons

Deodorant advertisers

Smoking industry

Subprime mortgage brokers

Gambling industry

"the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie."

sorry, something about this phrase is not clicking in my mind, what do you mean?

"Influencers", advertisers, and just about every Wall Street job.

Middle-men of any kind. Facilitators, landlords, middle-management positions... They're all worthless and contribute nothing to society but bullshit.

Influencers. And more broadly, almost anything to do with marketing.

Lobbyists

I just assume anyone who works at a juvenile prison either molests or beats children.

Are there still places that legally mandate car refueling operators? That seemed like a job that literally only existed to give some people a job.

Cops

Lemmy users that post the same thing in multiple Ask Lemmy communities

Whatever job MBAs have

Anyone who is trying to sell me something

Managers without empathy.

Sounds a bit like doctors without borders now when I think about it, it's maybe already a clan.

Telemarketer.

Lobbyist

People who evalulate and grade pop-culture collectables like baseball cards, video games, etc.

Imagine having a career based on turning people's collection hobbies into investment opportunities for rich people; making said hobbies unaffordable for the people who actually enjoy the subject matter in the process. You'd have to be a real fucking scumbag to do something like that.

Off-topic: Lemmy really needs better crosspost functionality.

Lemmy is a small group of people, let's not divide it further by having the exact same conversation in two (or more) places.

Papparazi. Fucking leeches

Elected Republicans

Data brokers. Also, those bug-bounty fuckers, both the buyers and sellers of exploits. They make the internet a worse place.

Edit: a slight edit on grammar.

Streamers

• landlords
• lobbyists
• telemarketers
• brokers
• casino work
• hedgefund work
• companies that make unnecessary amounts of (and wasteful) plastic
• door to door salespeople
• sidewalk salespeople

Looking at the replies, I realized I'm too much of a normie for this thread.

Cops, prison guards, landlords.

Cops, landlords, the entire advertising industry, anything to do with the stock exchange, PMCs, lobbyists (and by extension most career politicians)...

I'm just getting started

Some food jobs make me think we get carried away with what food is supposed to entail.

Police.

If you have to ask why at this stage you must also still believe the Spanish Inquisistion is necessary.

“fucking stupid”

Meat processing (for human consumption) because it’s unnecessary for our survival and I personally find it an abhorrent and morally wrong.

Personal trainers. Watching other people exercise is not a job.

You may as well be a corporate tax accountant, a ghost writer for the rich or an email scammer in terms of the value you create for society.