David Graeber's bullshit jobs and bullshit industry, and even a little of Cory Doctrow's Enshittification, are encapsulated perfectly in your story, thanks for posting.
Look at the energy bullshit work requires and wastes also, it's mind blowing, all the effort made to try to just improve efficiency ends up doing the opposite, it's like trying to swim faster underwater to get further on one breath, we end up not getting further, but falling short of the mark completely, and look, the systemic consequences are just as dire, a burning planet, but worse, we are not learning by it, we are learning less by it, like a cat slapped for doing something "wrong", the trauma of the slap destroys any chance of information being retained.
We see the same Enshittification inside computers (Well, Windows computers at least), I often wonder what would happen if all computers were to switch to a non profit, open source operating system like ubuntu (ie free of bullshit business), all at the same time, we would probably see at least 50 percent drop in global energy demand, and this alone would solve all the problems of a burning planet.