It is clear that during COVID the people who are managing to keep their jobs are either essential (police, medical etc) or are able to work from home. We are also seeing that the suburbs with the most job losses are the poorest suburbs.
We can extrapolate meaning from that – higher paid jobs have less need to be physically present (on average), which suggests that higher paid jobs are “less real”.
A real job, one that directly benefits society, is one that makes things. And despite the digital age we live in, most things we buy are still physical, requiring people to physically make and store and transport them.
A bullshit job, one that shifts money around but doesn’t generate anything new or of tangible value, can usually be done from home.
Bullshit jobs, those that society needs the least, pay the most. That is upside down.