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Anthropologist David Graeber joins The Majority Report to discuss his book, “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory.”

• How Graeber gathered stories from people about their experiences of work.
• The five categories of bullshit jobs: goon, duct taper, flunkie, box ticker, task master.
• The high percentage of UK survey respondents who think their jobs add nothing to the world.
• The psychological effects of knowing your job is bullshit.
• The link (or lack thereof) between GDP, employment rates and indicators of well being.
• What the growing number of useless jobs says about how capitalism actually works.
• How whole industries are moving to a system of managerial feudalism.
• How the financialization of the economy drives the bullshit job phenomenon and the role the government plays in extracting profits.
• The benefits of replacing means-tested programs with UBI.
• Why right-wing populists resent the cultural elite.

Interview date: 25/05/2018