In it Graeber argues that a lot of our jobs are bullshit, so they don’t contribute to society at all, they just waste our time and give us the source of income. We live in a culture where you have to justify your own existence through the job and because of that we are having more and more of those bullshit jobs that do nothing, they just give us money necessary to stay live. We are essentially cogs in a big machine that should probably work us, while it seems like we are meant to work for it.
I think this happens because of how our society is structured – people who make decisions ad the top society don’t have good understanding of what is happening on the local level, so because of that they have a tendency to create a lot of inefficient processes that make us waste our lives, which is unfortunate consider that they get disproportionate rewards for their own roles. I think we should strive to create more horizontal based decision making procedures with how we organize society, possibly based on ideas like worker cooperatives or decentralized planning. What are your opinions about this phenomenon of bullshit jobs?
by InternalEarly5885
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As someone with a bullshit job who has read *Bullshit Jobs,* I think he is spot on. When you stop to think how far so many jobs are from actually producing anything of necessity or even joy, or helping people with their own actual needs, it can really boggle the mind how much stupid shit you can actually receive an income for.
Haven’t read this one yet, but I’m currently about halfway through The Dawn of Everything and thinking maybe this one should be next.