Bullshit Jobs: A Theory — Why Pointless Work Survives
What if pointless employment persists because it is politically and institutionally useful, even when it produces little meaningful value?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber as our lens, this episode investigates why jobs that workers themselves consider unnecessary can survive inside organizations supposedly governed by competition and efficiency.
Graeber distinguishes pointless employment from difficult, unpleasant, or poorly paid work that genuinely needs to be done. His concern is with roles whose…
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