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Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by etempleton on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:13PM (#33834346)
The truth is, and this will be hard for a lot of people to hear because it goes against their preconceived ideas and this authors claim, is both professors and the average arm-chair commentator have no idea what it takes to run a university. They have no idea the amount of work and logistics and everything else that goes into the day-to-day.
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Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by spencerflem on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:33PM (#33834684)
The book covers this by interviewing people working those roles - and by and large they consider their own jobs to be useless.

Graeber is not making these claims as an armchair expert, decreeing whose jobs are useless. It's an anthropological study of the people who themselves think they have a bullshit job.

(And then speculating on why these people feel that way and to a much lesser extent what we should do about it)

I'd highly recommend reading the book! It's much more nuanced and reasonable than any 5 sentence comment can be

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