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

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.

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

Papparazi. Fucking leeches

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

Telemarketer.

Cops, prison guards, landlords.

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

Elected Republicans

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...

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.

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

"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

Whatever job MBAs have

Lobbyists

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.

Managers without empathy.

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

Influencers. Just ad extensions.

Marketing. Anything having to do with marketing.

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

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.

Lobbyist

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.

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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.

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.

"the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie."

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

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.