Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

Posted on 08 May 2018 by David Graeber

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs It went viral After a million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer.There are millions of people HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it These people are caught in bullshit jobs.Graeber 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 gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation. Best Read [ Bullshit Jobs: A Theory ] author [ David Graeber ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr You need to get hold of this book I ve been recommending it to just about everyone I know The author was asked by a new journal magazine if he would write an article that would be a bit controversial and so he wrote one about how so many people today work in bullshit jobs and then the journal s website crashed as a million people went about downloading the article I was a bit worried when I started this book because I really don t like shaming people for the work they do You know, it s b You need to get hold of this book I ve been recommending it to just about everyone I know The author was asked by a new journal magazine if he would write an article that would be a bit controversial and so he wrote one about how so many people today work in bullshit jobs and then the journal s website crashed as a million people went about downloading the article I was a bit worried when I started this book because I really don t like shaming people for the work they do You know, it s bad enough if you have to do a shit job that no one respects, but to then have to put up with being made to feel like scum because of it too, that just seems pointlessly cruel Anyway, I ve worked in lots of crap jobs in m...This made my day It s definitely a fav forever Quirky and cool We start rating calc at 5 star max Some of the things innovative Seriously, have my star drives never been built because people around the world have been too busy creating BS PPTs and simply had no time to spend building devices for my space travel F 1 star Other points felt like BS themselves and made me feel that the author misses the point a bit 1 If people are ok being with themselves, on their own This made my day It s definitely a fav forever Quirky and cool We start rating calc at 5 star max Some of the things innovative Seriously, have my star drives never been built because people around the world have been too busy creating BS PPTs and simply had no time to spend building devices for my space travel F 1 star Other points felt like BS themselves and made me feel that the author misses the point a bi...Facebook Salvation for BS JobholdersThe astounding number of hours spent weekly by social media users is a direct result of bullshit jobs, says David Graeber, in his book of the same name In this context, the average smartphone being consulted 221 times a day is no longer unbelievable Graeber has uncovered a whole new field for research jobs where nothing real happens.We often think of neoliberalism as the era when companies are lean and mean, all the fat is excised and operations optimized Facebook Salvation for BS JobholdersThe astounding number of hours spent weekly by social media users is a direct result of bullshit jobs, says David Graeber, in his book of the same name In this context, the average smartphone being consulted 221 times a day is no longer unbelievable Graeber has uncovered a whole new field for research jobs where nothing real happens.We often think of neoliberal...Having read and even cited for a piece on the rise of extreme endurance sports over the past century Graeber s original essay in Strike magazine, I eagerly preordered this book I read it with a kind of surreptitious glee while attending college curriculum meetings and during my usual 4 hour commute, some days just go to said meetings, which consisted of adults with PhDs com...This book is about how some jobs are worthless and don t need to exist Perhaps this book itself is a good example of a worthless job that didn t need to be done and doesn t need to exist I like David Graeber His book Debt was phenomenal The book, however, is far from his best It expands on the short 2013 essay, On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs, which is still a provocation worth reading But it didn t need to be expanded into a book So the w...What would happen were this entire class of people to simply disappear Say what you like about nurses, garbage collectors, or mechanics, it s obvious that were they to vanish in a puff of smoke, the results would be immediate and catastrophic A world without teachers or dockworkers would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers or ska musicians would clearly be a lesser place xxi You had me at ska musicians But our author pivots quickly Writing this book also serve What would happen were this entire class of people to simply disappear Say what you like about nurses, garbage collectors, or mechanics, it s obvious that were they to vanish in a puff of smoke, the results would be immediate and catastrophic A world without teachers or dockworkers would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers...This is an eye opening and subversive book, and changed the way I look at jobs Politicians and economists are always touting how great jobs are jobs can fix anything and make capitalism work like a charm This book questions that assumption.I m giving this book five out of five stars because it opens up a new topic and asks strong questions that have not before been considered.The definition of a bullshit job, in the author s opinion, is a form of employment that is so completely pointless, u This is an eye opening and subversive book, and changed the way I look at jobs Politicians and economists are always touting how great jobs are jobs can fix anything and make capitalism work like a charm This book questions that assumption.I m giving this book five out of five stars because it opens up a new topic and asks strong questions that have not before been considered.The definition of a bullshit job, in the author s opinion, is...Outside of office parties and other social gatherings to the idea of a bullshit job was not much discussed It was never made into an issue by labor rights people or the political chattering classes until this author hit a nerve when he broached the topic in an essay It is a social problem and a concept which is a touchstone about the value of labor and work and what is its role in the economy It begins to hit questions of what kind of labor is valuable and is it necessary that 37% to 40% of w Outside of office parties and other social gatherings to the idea of a bullshit job was not much discussed It was never made into an issue by labor rights people or the political chattering classes until this author hit a nerve ...The Good Engaging a wider audience What I appreciate most with Graeber s books is his ability to take emancipatory history and theory, and play there is no better word to describe the action with ways to present them in accessible, engaging, and meaningful thought experiments narratives for a general audience esp in rich countries Another review described the results succinctly as making the strange, familiar, and the familiar, strange I like to think this is a principl...David Graeber continues to shine as one of the most provocative thinkers alive Bullshit Jobs is larger exposition of his essay from a few years ago On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs It s a book I ve been looking forward to since that essay was published back in 2013, and I was not disappointed This is a book that every working person should read.I ll begin with Graeber s definition of a Bullshit Job It should be noted that shit jobs and Bullshit Jobs are not the same thing Here is how David Graeber continues to shine as one of the most provocative thinkers alive Bullshit Jobs is larger exposition of his essay from a few years ago On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs It s a book I ve been looking forward to since that essay was published back in 2013, and I was not disappointed This is a book that every working person should read.I ll begin with Graeber s de...

08 May 2018

David Graeber