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Re:The bullshit-jobs thesis may be bullshit by simonh on Saturday June 05, 2021 @10:58AM (#27405601)
>The economist is trying to redefine "bullshit jobs" to mean simply "jobs which hold no value to anybody"

That is not the case. They don't talk about who the jobs do or don't have value to at all anywhere in the article, they only address the evidence Graeber used as the basis of his book - how employees think and feel about their own employment.

I don't know about the research they are citing, perhaps that does what you say.

Re:The bullshit-jobs thesis may be bullshit by pydry on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:56AM (#27419811)
It is the case. It's apparent if you diff the survey questions they relied upon from the ones Graeber used.