Graeber, as well as being a horrible human being wasn’t much cop as a scholar. Bullshit jobs was tested empirically and it’s bullshit[1]. If you’re going to read Debt at least do yourself a favour and read some negative reviews first so you can see where he tries to put one over on you. See critical reception on Wikipedia[2] or the seminar on Crooked Timber where the discussants do back flips trying to be kind but can’t bring themselves not to challenge it[3]. His last book “The Dawn of Everything” is similarly careful, with experts realising that where they know what ours taking about it’s horseshit but giving the benefit of the doubt elsewhere[4].

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09500170211015067

Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

[3] https://crookedtimber.org/category/david-graeber-debt-semina...

[4] https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-flawed-history-of-human...