Re:Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2018)
by ppsreejith on Saturday June 17, 2023 @09:03PM
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It's seems this was a garbled sentence in the first edition. Here was Graebers response:
> There was a garbled sentence in the first edition that I didn't catch in proofreading but was instantly removed as soon as anyone noticed it. DeLong has seized on this and endlessly reproduced it, quite possible hundreds of times, pretending it's still in the text.
> Why does he do this sort of thing? I honestly have no idea. I've never seen anyone else behave remotely like it.
Graeber:
"Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other’s garages"
That's a scientist?
If that's a scientist then I am done trusting scientists.