The Most Useless High-Paying Job

I recently attended an SEO conference and had a chat with a pretty sharp speaker. He told me this funny story about how his company has an entire department dedicated to predicting major world events. Based on those predictions, they publish articles across their network of sites in advance, with analysis and commentary on events that haven’t even happened yet. Apparently, the department has a few employees earning around $3,500 a month on average. Maybe they’ve found a clever way to monetize it, but from the way he described it, it honestly sounded more like management’s pet project than a serious business strategy

So many talented people trying to find a job, meanwhile scammers and grifters always find a way to make money doing something completely useless for the world, many "businesses" are making profits without providing any real value

it's old tactic, some big news sites do it all the time

I'd call that proactive, not useless.

When people start looking for 2030 Olympic travel guides for lesser-known cities, which site would they trust? The one that didn't exist a week before the opening ceremony, or the one that was built in 2020 and has effectively served as the unofficial tourism bureau for that city for nearly a decade?

This is just the same principle applied to less predictable events.