Are there any occupations you uniquely oppose the existence of?

Private equity/venture capitalists - they acquire unique brands and then extract all the value and enshitify them into the ground

Ctrl + F Landlord

Yall disappoint me.

Lobbyists

Literally anyone who works in health insurance.

Currently work in biotech, and have worked in medtech; I have had to integrate systems with insurers (payors is the industry term). I know exactly how fucked it is on a statistical level.

Software Patent Attorney

Any sort of high pressure sales sucks.

I'm not sure I do, but one thing I haven't seen mentioned here yet is consumer psychologists. I once read an argument that they could be improving people's mental health, instead they are working on manipulating people into buying more.

Human Cannonball

Hear me out: Many circus performers are multi disciplined, or put on an incredible display of training and talent. The last big top I went to had a knife throwing couple who also did a fantastic roller skating routine, a few very talented clowns/jugglers, and a bike troupe in a ball of death. Just to name a few. These people have devoted days or years of their lives to their craft. Do you know how hard it is to ride a bicycle across a tight rope with someone on your shoulders?

The Human Cannonball? He got launched out of the cannon and did one flip before getting caught by the net. That's all he did that night, yet he came out and bowed with the rest of the performers like he was an equal contributor.

Advertiser

private equity investment firms

HR. Have never met anyone in HR who contributed to the good.

"Influencers"

I'd say landlords but it doesn't count as an occupation

Chiropractors. It's pseudoscience. Maybe it's not the most unique opposition from me as I know some others dislike chiropractors, but I think it's backwards that medical aids or health insurance will literally pay for their client's appointments with these modern day charlatans, while denying payment of scientifically proven treatment options.

Guidance counselors. One of them tried to convince my parents that I was on drugs...in 4th grade. Turned out that I had an undiagnosed mental disorder.

Gas-filler. There's a couple states in the US where you aren't allowed to pump your own gas, someone else has to do it for you, and you're expected to then tip them.

The job is essentially getting me to pay to be inconvenienced. I'd prefer to pay to let me pump my own gas.

Naturopaths.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there's folks doing sane, evidence-based care in this area. But I've seen so much bullshit from practitioners, ranging from the grossly unethical to the blatantly dangerous, that I find them hard to trust about anything as a group.

Besides, we already have health professionals that can provide good, evidence-based care (issues like ego v. evidence/new findings to improve care notwithstanding - but there's crappy people in all fields) - we call them doctors and nurse practitioners. And we need more of those.

Telemarketers

Time share salesman

Cold callers for: Solar panel, and Business loans

Cop

Wall Street. Shorts, bulls, bears, options, it is all euphemisms for gambling and everyone else suffers for it.

Maybe not unique in my opposition…but…

CEOs. (Especially of large companies)

They rarely know what they’re doing, are guessing 90% of the time, bandwagon anything they think will make them more money or notoriety, and get paid exorbitant amounts of money doing nearly nothing to actually earn it.

Israel

Advertising. Landlord. Intelligence agent or special operator for a bourgeois state.

Any sanitation worker, sewage diver, drain block remover, in most of the third-world countries.

We need city drainages to be repaired, cleaned, maintained, and managed with draconian safety, extremely well-compensated, hazardpay up the wazoo workers comp and complete-healthcare all covered for life. So many workers are just abused for the lifeline work that keep a city's arteries from getting clogged and flowing smoothly.

I saw how Korean drain-workers do it with high-pressure water jets and incredible efficiency and knowhow talent of their vital job. I wish we didnt have the corruption that prevents this type of training, trained worker, worker pride in the essential labour that they do.

Same goes for recycling and reducing waste. We humans don't do nearly enough and the Top-20 major corporations that cause 80% of worldwide pollutants go unchecked and unpunished.

Telephone sanitizers

If you’re saying that you uniquely oppose the existence of elder care as an occupation, then that is a very strange, and frankly worrisome example. Am I misinterpreting what you meant? Also, I don’t know what to make of “unkarmic freebie.”

All of them. Abolish occupations.

Kudos to the people who actually adhered to the "unique" part of this. No, you're not unusual for hating money men. It's only a matter of time until someone posts "cops".

The entire entertainment industry is gross and depressing seen from anywhere close to the inside, but I'm not sure I'd really say I oppose it in concept.

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.

edit: Fixed the link.

Whoever is in charge o blackrock

Recruiters.

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West bank

ACAB.

Middle manager.
At least in my current job. There are nice AND useful ones out there, but in my dept., there's positively neither.

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Plenty, lobbyists, health insurance industry, and advertisers would be a few off top of my head.

Being rich

corporate lawyer and politician. sleaziest of them all

Realtors.

I don't know of a job more pointless. And I worked (reception) at a realty office and still didn't see the value.

Car sales person.

Real estate agent. Car sales people.

Possibly more than half of the existing jobs. Some of them because they are enslaving (well, anything done for money to survive is enslaving), but most of them because they are unnecessary. Without their existence, the world would be a more tolerable place.

ceos.
Secretaries.
Legal assistants.
Corporate lawyers.
Most of the jobs within the tech industry.
The lackeys (according to Graber).
Selling cell phones or cell phone plans. In general, any job where eloquence is needed to convince another person to do something.
ANY job within the real estate sector.
This one is due to personal ideas, but any job within a restaurant. Abolish restaurants.
Landlords (it is not a formal job per se, but since there are people who make a living from it, I add it. For each of them, only the guillotine awaits).

Parking enforcement?

Only about 60-70% of them.

Hedge Funds and Short Sellers.

I oppose the occupation of gaza by Israel !

But fr, anything position that gives one power and a feeling of superiority : magistrate, judge, police officer, military, ...

Bankers, lawyers, marketers, police, military, landlords if that was a job, politicians.

I thought you meant military occupations and I was so confused. Like asking what's the one military occupation you oppose (you aren't allowed to oppose any others)

Landlords. Do I think it's terrible for some nice old person to rent their basement to students for a good price for a bit of income in retirement? No. But corporate landlords and people hoarding housing can fuck off.

would this be an appropriate time for a "Ur Mom" mention?

Taxi/uber driver / chauffeur

Rancher

Slaughterhouse worker

Insurance claim assessor

Animal breeder

Fossil fuel miner/minesite worker

Gas station attendant

Propane salesman