Special Rebroadcast: David Graeber on "Bullshit Jobs"
David Graeber
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Jul 19, 20267 September 2020
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Last week, on September 2, radical anthropologist and Occupy Wall Street organizer David Graeber passed away at a hospital in Venice at the age of 59. In their obituary, the New York Times called him a "caustic critic of inequality." Today we remember David by re-airing our Labor Day interview with
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A radio interview with anthropologist David Graeber discusses his book on “BS jobs,” arguing that many modern jobs are socially pointless and sustained by bureaucracy, hierarchy, and cultural beliefs about work. The conversation also covers Occupy Wall Street, automation, universal basic income, climate change, and how meaningful labor could be reorganized.
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