Bullshit Jobs: A Theory book

Name: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
ISBN: 9781501143315

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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by the American anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs which cause psychological harm. He contends that over half of societal work is pointless and becomes psychologically destructive because workers are required to pretend their role is not as pointless or harmful as they know it to be. Graeber classifies a job as bullshit if society would be no worse off if such job(s) disappeared, and names five classes of meaningless jobs: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters. He argues that the association of labor with virtuous suffering is recent in human history and proposes universal basic income as

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Link in episode "AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen": https://simonandschuster.com/books/Bullshit-Jobs/David-Graeber/9781501143335
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* https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/ * https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ * Bullshit Jobs: https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp/150114331X * Do y
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Link in episode "AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen": https://simonandschuster.com/books/Bullshit-Jobs/David-Graeber/9781501143335
AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 2026-09-08
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* https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/ * https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ * Bullshit Jobs: https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp/150114331X * Do y
Finding Profitable Business Ideas By Studying Trends, Hood Rat Stuff, and More · 2022-03-22
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Duncan Trussell | This Past Weekend #112 · 2018-07-12

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AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen

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Link in episode "AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen": https://simonandschuster.com/books/Bullshit-Jobs/David-Graeber/9781501143335
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Link in episode "AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen": https://simonandschuster.com/books/Bullshit-Jobs/David-Graeber/9781501143335
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Bullshit Jobs Peter and Michael discuss "Bullshit Jobs" by anarchist anthropologist David Gra
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* https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/ * https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ * Bullshit Jobs: https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp/150114331X * Do y
Finding Profitable Business Ideas By Studying Trends, Hood Rat Stuff, and More

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* https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/ * https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ * Bullshit Jobs: https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp/150114331X * Do y
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Bullshit Jobs Have you ever had a job where you had to stop and ask yourself: what am I doing
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