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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant
In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour work week. There’s every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this.
On the meaning and meaningless of our bullshit jobs.
„This is Hell“ radio station which might have technical issues with their censoring device
unless they keep saying „BS jobs“.
Anthropologist David Graeber explores the rise of useless work under late capitalism / early managerial feudalism – as a phenomenon everyone but CEOs and economists understand perfectly well, and as a grim reminder that we could all probably be doing something (or nothing!) better than with our time than bullshit work.
Interview date: 12/05/2018