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OdiousOutlaw wrote

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: the conditions, definitions, and implications of job titles were made up; the only thing that says that a janitor, a cook, a cashier, and a manager can't switch jobs are arbitrary social standards; as are any differences in the wages of those jobs. The janitor is stuck being a janitor regardless of the janitor's wishes; in this sense, the job title of "janitor" is a phantasm that is given the ability to influence the actions of the individual holding, or rather being held by, the title regardless of how that individual feels about it. So, yeah, it's a phantasm in a similar sense that race, nationality, laws or gender are: fake when you think about it, but real in the sense that most individuals in society give it power and influence.

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a_zed_9 wrote

Yes, as well the job itself is a "spook" or ideology. Since all jobs (even outside of the capitalist context) are ideological in that they serve the purpose of extracting profit (from the non-human and the human) and are thus removed from "wild nature" or ones natural "desire". I would suggest the text Against His-story Against Leviathan for this analysis of jobs as I tie Perlmans conception of "Armor" to this understanding of ideology.

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