Bullshit Job? Don’t Zone Out, Go Rogue
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Anthropologist and activist David Graeber is getting a lot of mileage out of his study of ‘bullshit #jobs’. First, the viral essay in 2013 that said in no uncertain terms what everyone was already thinking, subject of guerrilla poster campaigns and follow-up think pieces ever since. And now a full-blown book, released this month, it too getting its fair share of press.I was excited to read Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, but also dreading it. Little gets my blood pressure up more than reading about society’s gross misallocation of resources, so deeply embedded in our culture from the education system onwards. Sure enough, it’s a blistering, infuriating read. At times it’s an almost fatal blackpill; Graeber makes it seem like there’s no way out of the predicament of pointless job proliferation, and (...)