I want to go into sales because they seem to earn a shit ton of money.

Are sales folks proles? Labor aristocracy?

Would I be a class traitor for selling something and earning, like, 10x more than the artist/engineer/ laborer who makes that thing?

  • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The vast majority of sales jobs exist to manipulate people into buying something they wouldn’t have otherwise bought. That’s the whole purpose of the job. Otherwise it’s just a pointless bullshit job where what you do doesn’t matter at all. Most people who work bullshit jobs come to hate them. They feel trapped because having a job where you get paid well for doing nothing is supposed to be the dream.

    I think sales tends to make you a worse human being as well. The jobs tend to create a culture where lying and manipulation are not only permitted but praised. Your coworkers will celebrate screwing people over and you’ll absorb their horrid justifications for what they do.