Thursday 3 September 2020

David Graeber on Bullshit Jobs

Many of us do bullshit jobs, or have jobs that come with thick layers of bullshit. Here's David Graeber, who sadly passed away yesterday, talking about the five broad types of bullshit jobs that exist. Rest in power, comrade.

1 comment:

Blissex said...

I have learned quite a bit from "Debt: the first 5000 years" about political economics, and it was written by an anthropologist, and I was delighted by his bullshit job research, as it proved something that I had often mentioned as a guess, An excellent, insightful person, with an interesting and humourful style of expression, as in this talk.