A Labor Day Conversation with David Graeber, author of Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
Jonathan
Jul 19, 20263 September 2018
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A 2015 YouGov survey revealed that 37% of working British adults think their jobs do not make a meaningful contribution to the world. Similarly, 40% of workers in the Netherlands reported that their jobs had no good reason to exist. Why are so many 21st century workers trapped in useless, meaningles
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This radio interview features anthropologist David Graeber discussing his book on “BS jobs,” or work that feels socially pointless to the people doing it. The conversation expands into bureaucracy, automation, labor politics, real estate, and universal basic income as possible responses to meaningless work and overwork.
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