by Robert Ovetz | External link

Although we ultimately learn that Graeber’s stream of anarchism is the moral kind, Bullshit Jobs is a humorous page turning assault on meaningless work you’ll spend your rare ‘time off’ from work to read. But once you finish his moral denunciation of pointless work, you’ll still need to make lunch for tomorrow and hit the sack early for yet another gruelling commute and endless day of absurd work. In Bullshit Jobs we now know our jobs are mostly pointless. We still don’t know yet how to get rid of them — and all work for that matter.

Ebb was created in 2019, at a time when mild forms of social democracy found themselves unable to confront either the limits of parliamentarianism or their complicity with imperialism.