Are you stuck in a “bullshit job”?
David Graeber’s thesis about modern office jobs is less groundbreaking than it seems
SISYPHUS, king of Corinth, was condemned for all eternity to push a boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again. David Graeber, an anthropologist, thinks that many modern workers face the same fate today, forced to perform pointless tasks, or “bullshit jobs”, as his new book* calls them.
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Business June 2nd 2018
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