Re:A Review of Graeber's Essay on “Bullshit Jobs” (2013)
by gaius on Sunday March 15, 2015 @09:44AM
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Here's the secret: there aren't many bullshit jobs. Sure it can be hard sometimes for an individual to see how their particular cog forms a part of the overall machine, but it doesn't mean that it doesn't do something that others depend on.
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Re:A Review of Graeber's Essay on “Bullshit Jobs” (2013)
by api on Sunday March 15, 2015 @09:48AM
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You must not have worked in a huge organization. They are everywhere: people doing nothing at all, or working on projects that any fool can see will never ship.
A lot of this boils down to a very old question: why do we operate this machine we call the economy? Do we do it for our own interest, or is it an end in itself that uses us? What are we working for here? It's a question that if followed goes beyond economics and gets quite metaphysical.