LinkedIn is ridiculous. The AI-written humblebrags. The heroic layoff stories. The leadership lessons from airport delays. The posts that make you want to close the app and reconsider literacy. And yet… What if LinkedIn is still too useful to abandon? My new article argues that LinkedIn is not just a cringe machine. It is also one of the last public mirrors of the labour market: absurd, artificial, annoying, and still strangely necessary.