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You’re Not Just Imagining It. Your Job Is Absolute BS
I’ve been rereading the late anthropologist David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs, which persuasively makes the case that the corporate world is happy to nurture inefficient or wasteful jobs if they somehow serve the managerial class or flatter elites—while encouraging the public to harbor animosity at those who do rewarding work or work that clearly benef... See more
Brian Merchant • The AI jobs crisis is here, now
CARL ICAHN FIRED 12 FLOORS OF PEOPLE.
This clip would be so unbelievable if I hadn't seen it myself.
The low interest rate environment of the last few decades led to the proliferation of 'bull s*** jobs'. David Graeber wrote a book on the concept (I didn't coin the term).
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carried_no_interestx.comIf the existence of bullshit jobs seems to defy the logic of capitalism, one possible reason for their proliferation might be that the existing system isn’t capitalism—or at least, isn’t any sort of capitalism that would be recognizable from the works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, or, for that matter, Ludwig von Mises or Milton Friedman. It is increasi
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