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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber

Strike! Magazine, 2013

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Do you have a “real” job? Anthropologist David Graeber proposes that many jobs today are simply “made up” and don’t really need to exist. In this engaging article, Graeber tackles difficult questions about the meaning of work and the causes behind ineffective labor. The current US economy supports service-based and administrative jobs much more than society relies on these positions. getAbstract recommends this provocative perspective to workers who find little value in their current employment and need some inspiration to find their true labor of love.

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In 1930, English economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that, in 100 years’ time, advancement in technology would enable a 15-hour work week. In fact, technology has already automated many jobs, but society simply created “huge swathes” of new ones to take their place. Employees are still bound to a 40-hour workweek, and, to make matters worse, many people believe their jobs simply don’t need to exist – a morally and psychologically damaging belief for a human being to hold. The phenomenon of “bullshit” jobs speaks to the large group...

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David Graeber is a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics.

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