Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
As Graeber suggests, this partly came true, but instead of working half the week, we have somehow filled the remaining days with meaningless tasks. The very time and freedom we need to engage in meaningful activities and to imagine a better future is being squeezed by nonsense tasks. Historically, we needed more labourers to produce goods and servi
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Since at least the Great Depression, we’ve been hearing warnings that automation was or was about to be throwing millions out of work—Keynes at the time coined the term “technological unemployment,” and many assumed the mass unemployment of the 1930s was just a sign of things to come—and while this might make it seem such claims have always been so... See more
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This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
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This description might sum up the author’s view of the global economy and those tasked with (or conscripted into) maintaining it. One myth that these confessions debunk once and for all is that the private sector is more efficient than the public sector in its employment practices. While derisive phrases such as “close enough for government work” h... See more