"In “Bull__ Jobs,” Graeber, an anthropology professor at the London School of Economics, applies a critical eye to the Western world of work, where, he says, companies pay people to carry out an endless array of tasks that make no meaningful contribution to society. Graeber is expanding on a 2013 essay that he published in Strike! magazine and that subsequently went viral. In it, citing a famous prediction by the economist John Maynard Keynes, he argued that technology should have made workers more productive, leading to a 15-hour workweek, but instead has been used to make people work more, in pointless jobs they hate."

The rise of pointless work and what we can do about it

Bullshit Jobs, by David Graeber, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, delighted me with its clear thought on an issue I hadn’t read about.

Bring back boredom, alleviate bullshit!

We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everyone has to be employed at some sort of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darvinist theory, he must justify his right to exist
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What qualifies and what to do about them…

Overlong, but the book offers comfort to those who are performing the white-collar version of burger-flipping and hating...

Is your job one that makes the world a better place? If not, it is probably bullshit, part of a system that is keeping us under control

Many jobs are pointless. Others are being automated away. In the future, who will still work for a paycheck?

Explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln.

Bullshit Jobs builds upon David Graeber’s 2013 essay titled On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. He posits that many of us are working in jobs that we know don’t need to be done, that we could stop doing them and no one would notice. And he suggests that these jobs are bad for us as individuals and society. If you’re nodding at this point, my condolences.

"In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber looks at the increase of jobs that do not contribute anything meaningful society. He reasons that the role of bureaucracies and perverse incentives are to blame for the rise of this phenomena."

Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense.

And why this professor thinks we need a revolution.

David Graeber’s new book raises many questions about the function and worth of work, but doesn’t entirely explain why useless work persists, finds Clare Solomon

For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose. Is there any good left in the grind?

Anthropologist David Graeber’s new book accuses the global economy of churning out meaningless jobs that are killing the human spirit.

"The citation—sensitively different from Kant’s—is a fitting opener to Graeber’s pamphlet. Bullshit Jobs is bent on debunking the contemporary cult of work and kick over the idols of our work-craved society, a world in which man is nothing and work is everything."

This provocative book argues millions of us do work that has no use at all. The case is enjoyably overstated, says Emma Duncan

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber is an academic investigation based on Graeber's viral newspaper article about why some people feel their jobs are meaningless and why people do jobs they think are "bullshit." This book should be required reading for any economics or business student and would be a great gift for anyone who is unhappy but isn't quite sure why.