The Bullshitisation of the Economy Has Only Just Begun: pointless labour, digitisation, and the revolt of the caring classes [Audio]
David Graeber
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Jul 19, 202619 October 2018
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Speaker(s): Professor David Graeber | The proliferation of useless forms of employment in the professional-managerial sector has placed enormous pressure on the caring professions, leading to a major social conflagration. David Graeber (@davidgraeber) is Professor of Anthropology at the LSE and auth
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This transcript is a public conversation about David Graeber’s theory of “bullshit jobs,” arguing that modern economies create pointless white-collar work and burden useful work with administrative tasks. It connects these dynamics to outsourcing, automation, class and gender, psychological harm, labor organizing, and universal basic income as a transitional remedy.
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